Timon Cline
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Law’s Preparation
Within the Reformed law-gospel paradigm, the pedagogical function of the moral law is routinely recognized. Calvin’s three uses of the moral law include pedagogy in the first use: to act as a mirror by revealing sin to us and, in turn, our need for God’s grace. (See Institutes 2.7.6-12.) As Augustine famously put it, “the […]
Thomas Goodwin’s Christocentric Natural Law
Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) is most often studied for his contribution to congregational ecclesiology as one of the Dissenting Brethren, though Mark Jones has made his Christology a source of interest lately and Joel Beeke often sings his praises. Rarely, if ever, mentioned is Goodwin’s theory of natural law, which is surprising given the close relation […]
Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age
Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic AgeAndrew T. WalkerBrazos Press, 2021267 pages (paperback), $19.99 The past decade has been marked by seismic shifts in American political opinion. Remarkably, however, most Americans, despite many recent high-profile court battles, still support religious liberty—at least insofar as they do not want their sincerely held […]
When Almost All the World Was on a Fire, Part IV
The aim of John Winthrop and company in coming to Massachusetts was to establish a Christian society, as much in line with New Testament piety as with Old Testament political theory. This project, this errand, is often cast as revolutionary. In some respects, it was, but only insofar as it achieved moderate success. In most […]
“Live Not By Lies: A Manual For Christian Dissidents,” by Rod Dreher
“There always is this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.’ Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.” With this harrowing quote from the late Soviet dissident, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Rod Dreher, the senior editor of The American Conservative and author of the […]
