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How churches lose the plot, Part II

Carl Trueman
Nov 23, 2010
Yesterday, I noted how the big personality can shift the church in the wrong direction. A closely related phenomenon is that of the minister who thumbs his nose at the church's public standards of doctrine and practice, who decides that he does not like that to which his vows bind him, and that he...

How churches lose the plot, Part II

Carl Trueman
Nov 23, 2010
Yesterday, I noted how the big personality can shift the church in the wrong direction. A closely related phenomenon is that of the minister who thumbs his nose at the church's public standards of doctrine and practice, who decides that he does not like that to which his vows bind him, and that he...

How churches lose the plot, Part I

Carl Trueman
Nov 22, 2010
Not all historical phenomena that manifest themselves as doctrinal are necessarily immediately doctrinal in cause or origin.' That statement, made to me by a mentor in my field of historical theology, articulates a crucial principle, a principle that came to mind quite recently. I have spent the...

How churches lose the plot, Part I

Carl Trueman
Nov 22, 2010
Not all historical phenomena that manifest themselves as doctrinal are necessarily immediately doctrinal in cause or origin.' That statement, made to me by a mentor in my field of historical theology, articulates a crucial principle, a principle that came to mind quite recently. I have spent the...

Chalmers on Government

Carl Trueman
Nov 15, 2010
The shadowy figure known simply as `The Librarian' brought to my attention the following thoughts of the Scottish theologian and churchman, Thomas Chalmers, on Romans 13. In an era when it is seemingly more and more acceptable to be a social gospeller, to identify Christianity with political...

Chalmers on Government

Carl Trueman
Nov 15, 2010
The shadowy figure known simply as `The Librarian' brought to my attention the following thoughts of the Scottish theologian and churchman, Thomas Chalmers, on Romans 13. In an era when it is seemingly more and more acceptable to be a social gospeller, to identify Christianity with political...

Anglicanism and Its Historical Identity

Carl Trueman
Nov 5, 2010
One of the odd things I have noticed in recent years is the historical isolationism of certain streams of Anglican evangelicalism. It manifests itself in a number of ways: a disparagement of the Book of Common Prayer; the downplaying of systematic theology as a vital component of the church's...

Anglicanism and Its Historical Identity

Carl Trueman
Nov 5, 2010
One of the odd things I have noticed in recent years is the historical isolationism of certain streams of Anglican evangelicalism. It manifests itself in a number of ways: a disparagement of the Book of Common Prayer; the downplaying of systematic theology as a vital component of the church's...

Protestant Amnesia

Carl Trueman
Nov 2, 2010
Over at the webpage, Called to Communion , Catholic convert from Protestantism, Bryan Cross, has written a a very kind and thought provoking assessment of my comments on Roman Catholicism over recent years. Bryan picks up on a point I have made numerous times, both in print and in the classroom,...

Protestant Amnesia

Carl Trueman
Nov 2, 2010
Over at the webpage, Called to Communion , Catholic convert from Protestantism, Bryan Cross, has written a a very kind and thought provoking assessment of my comments on Roman Catholicism over recent years. Bryan picks up on a point I have made numerous times, both in print and in the classroom,...