It has been too long since I posted here at EC In Plain Language. Let me remedy that now. This post will be less ordered than others, and more of a reflection upon what has drawn me into the mood...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2013/04/god-is-love-as-starting-point.html
Below I am going to provide two quotes, the first will be from Theodore Dwight Bozeman discussing the emergence and factors that shaped the thinking of the yet to come English Puritans; and the ...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2013/03/comparing-john-macarthurs-salvation.html
Ray Comfort We have a pastor friend, I should say he has been one of my dad's best friends ever since Bible College (for my dad), back in the 70s, and he has pastored a smallish Baptist chur...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2013/03/doing-ec-evangelism-in-contrast-to.html
I as an Evangelical Calvinist hold that Scripture should be understood instrumentally or as 'spectacles' as Calvin held. In other words EC for me believes that Scripture is something that God use...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2013/03/ec-doctrine-of-scripture.html
Here is my opening post at the new and improved 'The Evangelical Calvinist In Plain Language'. The way, when in person with someone, that I have tried to describe what Evangelical Calvinism is,...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-general-distinction-of-evangelical.html
Below is an introduction to our book, the ordering details are hyper-linked below as well. If you do not want to purchase from the publisher (which I would, it's cheaper), then you can always pla...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/08/evangelical-calvinism-essays-resourcing.html
I am done with blogging, for at least awhile. I am tired of it, for many reasons. So I just wanted to let any of my readers know about what is going on with my blog. I am not deleting the blog, b...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-am-done-with-blogging.html
The Gospel Coalition is gaining an amazing reach into the Evangelical churches in North America (if not even internationally at some levels). Indeed, even my own local church has been and is bei...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-gospel-coalition-resurgence-re.html
I recently read from someone who is not an advocate for the theology of 5 Point Calvinism, that they don't ultimately think that this is the real problem (at least for them personally); they seem...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/08/5-point-calvinism-isnt-really-problem.html
If you are going to blame anyone, blame God; for eternal life and salvation, that is. As an 'Evangelical Calvinist' my understanding of God's choice, relative to the individual's appropriation ...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/08/blame-god-and-sin-asymmetry.html
This post is in response to Cal (a commenter here), who has emailed me, and asked how it is that Evangelical Calvinism differentiates itself from Arminianism? It seems that Cal's primary 'delimit...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-can-you-say-that-evangelical.html
Some folk might wonder what the big to do is all about when it comes to the whole discussion this blog is dedicated to; that is, the discussion surrounding Calvinism and Armianism. In fact, I thi...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-understanding-calvinism-matters.html
Our book is now available at Amazon.com, click the title below: Evangelical Calvinism: Essays Resourcing the Continuing Reformation of the Church
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/our-book-is-available-at-amazoncom.html
I am not a so called Five Point Calvinist for various reasons, but one of those reasons, a primary reason, is that the theology behind the acronym TULIP was never intended to be the sum or end a...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-i-am-not-5-point-calvinist.html
This blog has just become my official "Book Blog," if I have any particular updates about the book itself, or other pertinent things regarding Evangelical Calvinism in particular, then this will ...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/this-blog-has-just-become-my-official.html
Jerusalem besieged, 70 A. D. I thought this was an interesting point made by N. T. Wright in his book Paul: Fresh Perspectives, he is discussing the nation of Israel and how Israel functions...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/wright-on-dispensationalism-and-nation.html
You can't simply do historical analysis of the New Testament and expect to come to right conclusions about Jesus. And yet this is where so much of 'Evangelical' scholarship (and Christian scholar...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/you-cant-have-jesus-without-faith.html
I wanted to address something that dovetails with a recent mini-essay that Darren Sumner wrote on Karl Barth's understanding of history and revelation . What I want to do is provide a counter-pa...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/jesus-of-history-faith-conjoined.html
Justin Martyr Thomas Torrance, in his Theological Science (his theological method, and a title of one of his books), follows what he calls an epistemological inversion; in short, epistemolog...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/thomas-torrance-on-justin-martyr-and.html
I would like to expose you all to Thomas Torrance's take on Irenaeus' understanding on what could be called a Christocentric Hermeneutic. As you read Torrance's account of Irenaeus, understand t...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/too-much-jesus-in-bible.html
Here is a video I did about 2 years ago (forgive my haircut, this is actually just after I finished my chemo treatments, so my hair is growing back :-). Anyway, I am interacting with Paul Molnar'...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/knowledge-of-god-for-thomas-torrance.html
Over at Roger Olson's blog, and in his most recent post where he is interacting with our recently released book, one of the issues that has come up – or that is not being appreciated 'yet' �...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/classical-determinism.html
Professor Roger Olson has been interacting with our book, recently. You can read his initial impressions here . I will be interested to see what he thinks once he gets to our last chapter, chapte...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/roger-olson-interacts-with-our-book.html
For anyone who was interested in that question of mine a few posts ago – e.g. whether or not Barth was actually neo-Orthodox – well, another Princeton guy I know (a bit ;-), David Congdon ha...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/was-karl-barth-neo-orthodox-theologian.html
Since it is 'Independence Day' here in America, today, I thought I would repost a reflection and response on 'Human Freedom' that I posted at my older EC blog quite a few months ago now. As you w...
http://evangelicalcalvinist.blogspot.com/2012/07/happy-human-independencefreedom-day.html