Monthly Archives: October 2009

31
Oct

The horror of October 31st

Every year on this night I witness the unholy abomination of little children choosing green plastic candy over good chocolate.  The spirit groans within me.

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31
Oct

Calvin, Bucer, and Roman Catholic convergance on justification

I haven’t had a chance to look much at this site, Regensburg and the Spirituali, but it promises to be interesting.  Much of the Diet of Regensburg was a non-starter between the Roman Catholics and the Reformed and the Lutherans … Continue reading →

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31
Oct

What Martin Bucer learned from the Marburg Colloquy

If you immediately condemn anyone who doesn’t quite believe the same as you do as forsaken by Christ’s Spirit, and consider anyone to be the enemy of truth who holds something false to be true, who, pray tell, can you … Continue reading →

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30
Oct

Martin Bucer in Cambridge to John Calvin in Geneva, 1549

I am spending my old age in exile, far away from my native country, banished from my church I loved so dearly, my school, and my city—where I was able to accomplish a few things by God’s grace—separated from my … Continue reading →

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30
Oct

Martin Bucer explains why God allowed Roman Catholic forces to defeat the German rulers

And so for the most part they seem to have learned only these things from the gospel of Christ: first to reject the tyranny of the Roman Antichrist and the false bishops.  Next, to throw off the yoke of any … Continue reading →

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30
Oct

N.T. Wright, and “Federal Vison” FAQ 3 (substitutionary atonement, propitiation, faith)

Part One Part Two You promised more about Jesus, Holiness, and the Politics of Jesus. Yes, but I haven’t had time to write about that, so I took that out of the last line of part two in this series. … Continue reading →

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29
Oct

The answer is: at least one parent died early in their lives.

Mark Horne » Blog Archive » A puzzler from my writing project. Tolkien lost both pretty early and I now realize I should have included C. S. Lewis.

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29
Oct

Between monarchism and anarchism–Tolkien

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional Monarchy.’ I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm … Continue reading →

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29
Oct

United States Federal and States’ government death panel takes shape

I don’t believe in the welfare state.  This program should never have started up.  It claimed compassion but what it ended up doing is allowing people to “farm out” (for free!) their responsibilities to their relatives. And now after we’ve … Continue reading →

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29
Oct

WANTED: More individualism in Evangelical Churches

(I decided to repost this with a picture) If it surprises you that I would write this, then you need to distinguish metaphysical individualism from intellectual independence and integrity. It might help to read Nevin’s scathing attack on “sects” in … Continue reading →

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