Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

On what wings dare we aspire?

Carl Trueman
Jan 25, 2014
Regular readers will know that I occasionally try to keep track of the ever-expanding letters which are being used to describe the sexual chaos that exists in PC World (and I am not referring to the magazine favoured by computer geeks). Well, Carlton Wynne has brought to my attention that Professor...

Your Wednesday Wake-Up Call

Carl Trueman
Jan 22, 2014
The latest Mortification of Spin is up. This week, the team tackle the issue of what constitutes a good sermon. In one of the outtakes, I did get a chance to show Todd and Aimee a diagram explaining the differences between the OPC and their own chosen denomination, the PCA, but it seems the...

Your Wednesday Wake-Up Call

Carl Trueman
Jan 22, 2014
The latest Mortification of Spin is up. This week, the team tackle the issue of what constitutes a good sermon. In one of the outtakes, I did get a chance to show Todd and Aimee a diagram explaining the differences between the OPC and their own chosen denomination, the PCA, but it seems the...

Familiarity and Contempt

Carl Trueman
Jan 22, 2014
There are a number of problems with Jeremy's Owenian take on liturgy. First, Owen himself must be read against the background of the way in which state imposition of liturgy had taken place within the English context. This lies behind Owen's tendentious and, indeed, fallacious history of liturgy...

Familiarity and Contempt

Carl Trueman
Jan 22, 2014
There are a number of problems with Jeremy's Owenian take on liturgy. First, Owen himself must be read against the background of the way in which state imposition of liturgy had taken place within the English context. This lies behind Owen's tendentious and, indeed, fallacious history of liturgy...

Around and About

Carl Trueman
Jan 21, 2014
If you are trapped inside in the snow and have read all the Danielle Steel on the bookshelves and stoked the fire with a few end time novels , here are a few other places which might provide food for thought. Banner of Truth has a couple of new videos where Mark Johnston and Ian Hamilton talk about...

Around and About

Carl Trueman
Jan 21, 2014
If you are trapped inside in the snow and have read all the Danielle Steel on the bookshelves and stoked the fire with a few end time novels , here are a few other places which might provide food for thought. Banner of Truth has a couple of new videos where Mark Johnston and Ian Hamilton talk about...

Applying Luther's Criterion for Canon to 'Left Behind'

Carl Trueman
Jan 20, 2014
Tim Wengert, my opposite number at the Lutheran Seminary in Germantown, has just published a thought-provoking book on Luther and the Bible, Reading the Bible with Martin Luther . In applying Luther's canonicity criterion of 'What pushes Christ' to the Left Behind series, he says the following: By...

Applying Luther's Criterion for Canon to 'Left Behind'

Carl Trueman
Jan 20, 2014
Tim Wengert, my opposite number at the Lutheran Seminary in Germantown, has just published a thought-provoking book on Luther and the Bible, Reading the Bible with Martin Luther . In applying Luther's canonicity criterion of 'What pushes Christ' to the Left Behind series, he says the following: By...

Quality Service and a Katharine Von Bora Moment

Carl Trueman
Jan 16, 2014
I am told that customers at WTS Bookstore are now requesting pictures of certain Westminster Faculty, pictures which are designed to help bring out their inner beauty and winsome personalities, to accompany orders. Here is one example of the quality work these men at the bookstore can do. Not quite...