A Review of Harrison Perkins’ “Reformed Covenant Theology” (Part 1)
A Review of Harrison Perkins, Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction, Bellingham, WA., Lexham, 2024, 520 pages, hardback.
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Analysis and Critique of the Federal Vision Teaching of Justification (Part 2)
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“FV is not primarily concerned with soteriology, much less justification. However, some of their teaching in other areas helps to shape their understanding of justification. Three areas that indirectly relate to their teaching of justification will be considered here” - DBTS Blog
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Analysis and Critique of the Federal Vision Teaching of Justification (Part 1)
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“Critics of Federal Vision…. claim that FV teachers, in arguing for a return to the Reformed tradition, have actually offered a return to Rome…. FV proponents have countered that they have simply been misunderstood and misinterpreted.” - DBTS Blog
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Owen Strachan goes after Christian white nationalism: “wicked ideology”
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“He warns that Christian nationalism …’the unbiblical view that we must preserve white ethnicity to build a Christian nation’ — has taken root in the Reformed wing of the evangelical church.” - RNS
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Natural Theology and Cornelius Van Til
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“What caused Van Til to reject classic natural theology? More importantly, was Van Til correct to pit classic natural theology against a supposedly Reformed version of it?” - Credo
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What Is Eastern Orthodoxy? A Reformed Perspective and Response
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“If Orthodoxy differs so significantly from Catholicism, how closely does it resemble Protestantism? A brief overview of Orthodoxy reveals several points of alignment, some significant misunderstandings, and a few major disagreements” - Desiring God
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The Trouble with Being Reformed and Baptist
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“There have been, of course, a great many attempts by Reformed Baptists to close the gap with various forms of hermeneutical intrigue, starting in the 1680s and persisting today in 1689 Federalism, New Covenant Theology, and Progressive Covenantalism.” - Mark Snoeberger
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Everybody Loves Bavinck
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“How a Dutch neo-Calvinist thinker became the latest Christian theologian-du-jour.” - C.Today
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A Baptist Perspective on Reformed Theology, Part 2
From Faith Pulpit. Read Part 1.
II. The origin and nature of the church evaluated from Ephesians 2:11-15
Reformed theology sees all the elect from Adam onward as part of the universal church.
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