by Kevin Bauder | Oct 24, 2016 | Church History, Church Unity, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Separation
You need to know this bit of history because of the important ecclesiological issues that were at stake. Thanks to Justin Taylor, you can. [Stott’s and his allies’] arguments took three forms: (1) Historically, they argued that the constitutional basis of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | Culture
Here is an older blog post by Kevin DeYoung, but still well worth reading. It nicely summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of two major Reformed approaches to culture. Baptists incline toward the two-kingdom theory, but occasionally a bit of Neo-Kuyperianism shows...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | Bauder's Reading
John MacArthur comments: In much of the world, the Charismatic Movement indiscriminately absorbs the pagan ideas of local false religions into its theology. For example, in Africa, a traditional obsession with witchdoctors, demonic spirits, and ancestor worship has...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Liberalism, Logic and Argumentation, Politics
Can we restore dignity to our degraded times? So asks Bruce Frohnen at The Imaginative Conservative. The very notion of infidelity as a wrong seems outdated today. Presidential candidates of both parties dismiss the thing-in-itself as meaningless or, at most, a...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | Catholicism, Christianity, Observations, Tributes
The essay is “Packer at Ninety,” and you’ll find it at First Things. It has been my privilege to know and work closely with Jim Packer for the past thirty-five years, only a fraction of his long and still amazingly productive career. I have seen him...
