Category: Church

This is a good, wide ranging interview with Michael Horton and Peter Leithart. While Horton makes it known that he disagrees with Leithart's approach to Christians in the public square, he asks good questions here. There was one "gotcha" question from Old Testament law, but it turned into one of the best parts of the discussion as Leithart explained how to interpret and apply Old Covenant law in the New Covenant era.

 

 

Category: Culture

Nothing original here, but four quick take-aways from the mid-terms this week:

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Category: Culture
1. I didn’t necessarily find every detail of Wolfe’s discussion of prelapsarian life convincing, but such speculations (if guided by Scripture) are entirely appropriate and useful. I agree with Wolfe that civil government is a creation ordinance that would have existed in an unfallen world as a way of organizing and structuring social life (e.g, if there was a symphony in an unfallen world, I believe it would have a conductor). Adam was a king, or at least a king in training at the time of his creation, and thus the seeds of political rule had already been planted. Of course this means that certain forms of hierarchy and social inequality would have existed in an unfallen world (as they will in the world to come). There is no reason to think egalitarianism is the natural state of man. Indeed, egalitarianism is fundamentally unnatural. God’s plan for mankind included a diversity of gifts, callings, and stations totally apart from the entrance of sin into the world. In Genesis 1-2, this is plainly seen in the pre-fall headship of the man over his wife. They are equals in bearing the divine image but unequals in nature and role. It would also have been seen in the rise of civil government (e.g., kings and rulers) in an unfallen world.
 

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Category: Church

Think of the layout of a medieval city. The church is at the center of town and the steeple is its high point. The church's position as society's center and summit is represented geographically and architecturally. But this does not mean the church is the only sphere that matters; they did not try to cram everything into the church building, so to speak. Fanning out from that central location were homes where families lived, shops and fields where people worked, schools where they were educated, and, yes, even a castle or government building to house the civil authority. The geographic layout was symbolic - the church did not control or rule these other spheres, but she was responsible to disciple them and they all found their end - their telos, their purpose - in the church’s worship gathering.

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Category: Culture

I put up a Facebook post earlier today raising questions for Stephen Wolfe and his “Christian Nationalism” project.

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  1. With the mid-term elections upon us....
  2. Frame on Natural and Special Revelation.
  3. How to Read the Bible: Bride Figures
  4. John Piper on Emotional Blackmail

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