Christian Mind in Action
Why do theological progressivism and liberalism always win in a denomination? Because the majority are moderates and moderates do not care. Progressivism and liberalism always start as a minority, a small minority. Then like a leaven, they increase to a sizable minority. When the alarming conservatives, who are also a…
The classical theism controversy was centered on James Dolezal’s book, All That Is In God, published in 2017 by Reformation Heritage Books. In this book, Dolezal criticized a long list of prominent Christian theologians for their deviation from “classical theism”, most notably from the immutability of God. Those on the…
Closely related to theology as “approximation” of God’s revelation, is Van Til’s idea of “limiting concepts”. Van Til talked about this in multiple publications, including Common Grace and The Gospel (P&R, 2015, p. xlviii-xlix; also a paper published under Common Grace in WTJ), An Introduction to Systematic Theology (P&R, 2007,…
What is theology? What is a Christian doing when he is making a theological statement? How do we define man’s position and task in light of the God-man relationship as defined in Scripture? Waves after waves of attacks from liberalism and secularism have forced many to hold a rigid view…