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(A response to a friend)
Well it’s a tough one, because those of a Greek orthodox persuasion are very into being Greek, and so the Greek theology is closely tied in with their sense of themselves and their thoughts of their own identity as a people. What I mean is, for them the fact that their […]

The Five points of Calvinism. 
You know the whole ‘5 points’ thing is kind of funny. John Calvin never had five points. While I really think he would have agreed with them, his was mainly an exegetical way of looking at what he thought Scripture was saying about some very important things. I think that if […]

 (A response to a friend)
I’m an Augustinian.  Poor and ragged as we might be.
The essence of Calvinism is that the effective cause of the salvation of the sinner is the Grace of God, mercifully given in Jesus Christ, and not some pre-existing good found in the sinner apart from God.  I appreciate your taking the […]

To a Friend,
As much as I disagree with much of what Van Til said and wrote, saying that General Revelation, God’s revelation of Himself in creation, is of equal authority with Special Revelation, meaning the Scriptures themselves, seems to be true.
It’s good that you are careful on these distinctions because many under value their necessity, […]

A Recent Spate of Calvinism.  Part Five.
http://neiswonger.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/a-recent-spate-of-calvinism-part-four/”>Continued from Part Four.
“Now since one and the same grace may in one instance be efficacious, and in another inefficacious, it follows that the so-called gratia efficax must be conceived according to its essence as efficax ab extrinsico. In this conception there is no lessening of the dignity and […]

 On Atheisms and why they are unthinkable.
There are things, we can call them things because we don’t really know what else to call them, like the laws of logic, numbers, consciousness, ethics, relations, things that seem to be eternal and unchangeable, that are inexplicable in terms of eternal material as the singular explanatory fact, or […]

A Recent Spate of Calvinism.  Part Four.
When you hear somebody that says they are a Calvinist say that man has no freewill, it’s hard to take that seriously.  We all know that man has a will.  The question is generally as to what man desires, not whether or not he does so.  There has been […]

A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Three.
“Only lest any one should presume so to deny freedom of will, from a desire to excuse sin.” Augustine.
“Of our own we have nothing but sin.” Augustine.
Calvinism can make your head hurt. You get into all of the confusing little nooks and crannies of the Christian faith just to […]

A Presuppa-what? (Comments on an ageing Presuppositionalism.)
If I had a’ dollar for every time somebody asked me why I’m a presuppositionalist, I’d have a lot of dollars.  But why is it all so confusing?  I think that the most basic task of an apologist is the examination, analysis, and promotion or refutation of a person’s […]

A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Two.
Sometimes when people read Aquinas they can get an inflated sense of his theological skill from the fact that they focus on ten percent of his work, being, his formulation of the Classical arguments for the existence of God, and tend to ignore the massive infusion of pagan philosophy […]