Monthly Archives: November 2005

Common sense would say that the price should come down for a new product. Eventually I suppose that will happen, but I’m surprised to learn that the new Xbox is being sold for less than production cost. Of course, I … Continue reading →

I don’t often do this, but I point you to this comment in context: The RPCGA says that Fv denies justification by faith alone. The PCA hammer has not yet come down. However, the majority of the PCA is noton … Continue reading →

I remember (imperfectly, I’m sure) that line from the protagonist in a John Grisham movie adaptation. The young lawyer sat across the table from an older lawyer. The older lawyer was defending a health insurance company that had deliberately refused … Continue reading →

Paul writes: Paul J Dean’s Comments on Wright do seem a bit thin Thirdly, in Duncan’s own words, the New Perspective ‘has gotten the Reformers wrong. They have done a disservice to Luther’s and Calvin’s exegesis. This has been pointed … Continue reading →

What does it mean when someone’s orthodoxy would be impeccable except that the person in question is claiming that certain words can be used by the orthodox in certain ways that jive with, subtantiate, or even extend the influence of … Continue reading →

If one wants to see a real angle where Wright may deserve criticism (and since I haven’t read the book I have to sit loose on the issue, though I trust Andrew and I’ve received some confirming hints): see this … Continue reading →

This post is rather sad. According to Wright, the gospel has nothing to do with the message that Christ died for sinners and that His work can be applied to sinners that they might be justified before a holy God. … Continue reading →

No Roman Catholic of any real sincerity would consider mere disillusionment with that denomination to be grounds for leaving it. Yet, mere disillusionment with Protestantism is often treated by Roman Catholics as if it were grounds for defection. Protestants find … Continue reading →

In 1994, George Grant got invited to speak at Covenant College at Lookout Mountain, GA and he invited me to come with him. I readily agreed because I would get to spend time with George (I worked for/with him then) … Continue reading →

Something I wrote awhile back which seems to refelct on current controversies about the nature/task of theology: One of the astounding oddities of the beginning of the English translation of Bavinck’s first volume of Reformed Dogmatics (pp. 34, 35) is … Continue reading →