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The text that turned me Presbyterian. Reader beware of the implications of embracing Witsius's irresistibly-argued covenant model of redemption. (Which is just the standard Reformed understanding.)
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"In which Witsius explicitly connects, "Love Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength" with the first table of the Decalogue and "love your neighbor as yourself," with the second. Both explicitly have man being the image of God as the basis.
I probably got this from him, but there are very few teachings that have arranged the contours of my mental map to a greater degree." — Jul 19, 2026 01:42PM
"In which Witsius explicitly connects, "Love Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength" with the first table of the Decalogue and "love your neighbor as yourself," with the second. Both explicitly have man being the image of God as the basis.
I probably got this from him, but there are very few teachings that have arranged the contours of my mental map to a greater degree." — Jul 19, 2026 01:42PM
The manner in which doctrine is embodied, communicated, lived, and sung is not neutral. Style equals form, and form matters. In other words, the form or manner in which we approach God in worship is not something indifferent (adiaphora).
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“During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of return from death. The debate went on for some time until C. S. Lewis wandered into the room. “What’s the rumpus about?” He asked, and heard in reply that his colleagues were discussing Christianity’s unique contribution among world religions. Lewis responded, “Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.” After some discussion, the conferees had to agree. The notion of God’s love coming to us free of charge, no strings attached, seems to go against every instinct of humanity. The Buddhist eight-fold path, the Hindu doctrine of karma, the Jewish covenant, and Muslim code of law—each of these offers a way to earn approval. Only Christianity dares to make God’s love unconditional”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“This reflects in the sphere of epistemology the wider point made by Cornelius Van Til that “covenant theology is the only form of theology which gives a completely personalistic interpretation to reality.”18”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“I thought that in an age when books were few and the intellectual appetite sharp-set, any knowledge might be welcome in any context. But this does not explain why the authors so gladly present knowledge which most of their audience must have possessed. One gets the impression that medieval people, like Professor Tolkien’s Hobbits, enjoyed books which told them what they already knew.”
― The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
― The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“It is just as matter of fact as the “there was” and “it was so” of verses 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 24, and 30. God speaks, and it exists. God speaks, and it is good. Both ontology (the existence of things) and axiology (the goodness of things) are equally and inseparably dependent on the divine word.41”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
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