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David VanDrunen just passed along an off print of his essay, “The Two Kingdoms Doctrine and the Relationship of Church and State in the Early Reformed Tradition” published in Journal of Church and State 49 (2007): 743-63. You can order single issues or subscribe here. Otherwise you can get copies of this essay at your nearest public library via inter-library loan. This material will also appear I think in his forthcoming volume on this topic.

I think I could live with this. Maybe Bill will get me to join the RPCNA yet?

Tullian posts a section from his forthcoming book on thinking Christianly. This is an important topic and one close to my heart. We discuss this very question each fall in the Historical Theology orientation course. We read and discuss a roundtable discussion published some years ago in Christianity Today in which several leading evangelical historians and scholars considered the question of whether we can interpret the providence of God in history and whether there is a distinctly “Christian” way of doing history.

In seminary I was taught that there is a distinctively Christian way of viewing everything. In a sense I suppose that’s true but here’s how my mind has changed on this issue. Read the rest of this entry »

I get occasional queries about theonomy, reconstructionism, and alternatives to the same. Read the rest of this entry »

According to this story the RIAA is thinking about prosecuting us for copying music from CDs, which we have purchased or otherwise own legitimately, to an MP3 player. Read the rest of this entry »

Good stuff at Jason Stellman’s De Regnis Duobus (Concerning the Two Kingdoms).