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Paul Helm has posted his analysis of N. T. Wright's ordo salutis on his blog . His conclusion? "With the help of the distinctions between temporal and logical order, and events and states, we are able to see that Wright's view of the ordo salutis follows a recurring pattern in Protestantism: the...

I see that K Scott Oliphint and Lane G Tipton have published a new book, Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed APologetics (P and R). It seems that every member of Westminster's Theological Field was invited to contribute, with one startling absence: the venerable Dr Trueman is not listed...

Martin Downes, the great Welsh ecumenist, brought this article in The Times to my attention. As Tipton and Oliphint exclude Trueman from the congregation of the faithful, so the Pope now excludes everyone outside his own communion: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2056515.ece...

Rev Bryan Follis of Belfast kindly sent me a copy of his new book, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway). I was very moved (convicted?) by the conclusion of the book:

Writing in USA Today this week, Skidmore College's Mary Zeiss Stange argues that Martin Luther would join her in blessing same-sex unions. The basic argument for this is as conventional as it is false, namely, that the genius of the Reformation is its willingness to advocate controversial changes...

A week or two ago I made a post on a new biography of C. Stacey Woods. Here is a characteristic quotation from his message "A Single Eye," first given at the Urbana Conference in 1954: "If a Christian has a single eye, if God is his goal, if he really is living for eternity and not for himself and...

Even a brief perusal of the Fall 2007 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers shows how far the publisher's mission has moved, not to say strayed, from its Reformed and evangelical heritage. To be sure, there are promising titles in the catalog. But others are evidently intended to advance a world...

"Nobody ever did perish trusting in Jesus. There has not been through all these centuries a single instance of a soul being cast away that came all guilty and hell-deserving, and took Christ to be its salvation. If you perish, you will be the first that perished with his hand laid upon Christ. His...

Given the fact that the Trinitarian identity of the Christian God is the identity of the Christian God, how do the other bloggers on Ref21 (who are all ministers) ensure that the action of worship in their churches on a Sunday is truly Trinitarian? For theologians such as Gregory Nazianzus, John...

As Sherlock Holmes said somewhere, the clue to the case was the dog that did not bark . Should we interpret the silence on Carl Trueman's (or, to avoid causing sexist offence or falling prey to enlightenment foundationalism in these relativist days `Carl...