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Paul Helm on the Benedict Option

by Brett Williams | Sep 12, 2017 | Culture, Separation, Theology, Uncategorized

Helm critiques Dreher’s Benedict Option here. Worth a read.   The presence of two kingdoms is a fundamental teaching of Jesus, not a political re-positioning for tactical advantage. The Benedict Option does not recognize it as mandatory. In Christianity...

Carson on Gospel Issues

by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | Christianity, Evangelicalism, Separation, The Gospel, Theology

What is a gospel issue? How do we recognize one when we see it? D. A. Carson addresses the problem in an insightful essay for Themelios. Here’s one side of the story; it’s worth reading the other: [B]ecause of the complex entanglements of theology, with a...

Ecclesiastical Separation

by Kevin Bauder | Dec 7, 2016 | Ecclesiology, Fundamentalism, Local Church, Separation, Universal Church

Why do we call it ecclesiastical separation? Some seem to think that we use this label because we are talking about separation that pertains to local churches, either in terms of their own membership or in terms of their outside fellowship. But that definition is both...

Detroit Seminary Profs on ETS and EPS

by Kevin Bauder | Nov 30, 2016 | Education, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Separation

I don’t know of a mainstream fundamentalists school that doesn’t allow its faculty to participate in the Evangelical Theological Society or the Evangelical Philosophical Society. I do know of certain non-academics who question the legitimacy of this...

The Split Between Stott and Lloyd-Jones

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...

Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Church Unity

by Kevin Bauder | Sep 23, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Church Unity, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Local Church, Separation, Universal Church, What We're Reading

“There has been almost universal agreement that unity exists in a spiritual sense in the invisible church. Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and others ascribed to the invisible church a unity that is indivisible because of its center in the living Christ. The...
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