Let's try this again.

I confess, I am very, very tired of the gossip machine in Christian academia.

I really do not know how people have the time for it, really. I can barely keep up with all I am trying to do. Maybe preaching regularly helps to keep you out of it? ... In any case, any person with an iota of seriousness about them could easily determine the truthfulness of this situation, but alas, so many do not care.

So let me say it again: I have stood in the minority Reformed stream for decades in confessing the Son to be ...

So I have been sent more than I really wanted to know about FBC Orlando's utter capitulation on biblical sexual ethics. Let's just say they are basically a middle-of-the-road United Methodist congregation. OK, lots of those around (though, they are all dying). ... My question is to all of the leaders of the SBC...all the department heads (NAMB, ERLC), seminary Presidents, etc. You've been told, by some in your own number, that there will be "no place to hide" on these topics. So...what are you doing? You seriously have to make ...

@NathanH02907868 Assuming you are a Baptist, Nathan, I wonder why you are using the very phrase the 1689 *did not include* in 1.6? Seems highly relevant, since, of course, "good and necessary consequence" is the very line used to defend paedobaptism which, I assume, you reject. And on ... @NathanH02907868 what grounds do you reject it? Thomas believed in it. It is THE conclusion of "the Great Tradition." No question about that, right? So on *that* topic you seem to be a...biblicist, then, right? Just checking!

So, outside of specific Aristotelian concepts, are you saying ...

I simply cannot help but see the judgment of God in the fact that it seems to me that in our day the default reaction of "Reformed" Christians is...divide. Attack. Marginalize. Cancel. No grace, no willingness to disagree agreeably. Label, destroy. Praying seriously that ... we would come to see that if we don't get rid of this "we may agree on 99.5% of stuff but that .5% is more important so I will reject you" attitude now, out here, in the free world, we won't be able to get rid of it in the gulags, you know what I mean?

Tell me you are joining the "I will opine, but not actually read" club without telling me you joined that club. This is the same man who made numerous false claims about me and, though I refuted him fully, with documentation, has never withdrawn the falsehoods.

Of course, I know he does not listen to me or read what I have to say. Nor did he read the GBTS Journal. I know these types ...

Allow me to wax prophetic for a moment.

GBTS just put out a journal with articles relevant to pastors and the current "resourcement" of Thomas Aquinas. As with ANY criticism of Thomas, first response will be, "You just don't understand/read the right people." This is ... simply genetic to a fully committed Thomist. Of course, they say that to each other as well, for of the end of intra-Thomistic debate and paper-writing, there is no end. Secondly, it is aimed at all the wrong people: pastors, not scholars. Of course, they are the ones ...

Because of my current speaking, debating, preaching, and teaching commitments, I have not been able to pay a lot of attention to social media and all the sub-tweeting, etc. I may get to respond to some issues, esp. regarding TMS, once I am done teaching and headed home. ... Till then, two comments.

First, I mentioned TMS not to target the school but to say, "If this kind of neo-scholasticism can even manifest itself at Master's, then none of our institutions are immune." There are men at TMS who are not ashamed of the term "biblicist," ...

Likewise, a friend complained that I am engaging in some kind of "cheap-shot attack" by using terms like Thomists and Platonists. Evidently my friend is not nearly as well read in the sources as he should be. Is it not Craig Carter who insists that the only way to ... truly defend the Trinity in our modern day is to adopt "Christian Platonism?" Do I need to go back over the references there? I did not make up the term. And I would invite anyone to take just a few minutes to peruse Matthew Barrett's time line, or read through a few ...

Really had a *wonderful* morning at the Museum of the Bible today. I was honestly wondering how it was going to work. We divided our people up into two groups to fit in the theater for Steve Lawson's presentation. But I was the wild-card. The Museum would not let me ... do a formal tour, which is probably good because...I had never been there before! But what we decided to do was to play a big game of Where's Waldo, but this time it was Where's White. I headed up to the 4th floor where they had the manuscript facsimiles and their copies of a ...

@scottrswain @CraigACarter1 Just a reminder of what that means, in Dr. Carter's own words:

The Great Tradition was a three-legged stool made up of spiritual exegesis, Nicene dogma, and Christian Platonist metaphysics. By pressing deep into the meaning of the text contemplatively, spiritual exegesis ... @scottrswain @CraigACarter1 yielded the trinitarian and christological dogmas, which in turn generated certain metaphysical doctrines such as creation ex nihilo and the reality of the spiritual realm. The metaphysics then created a hospitable context for further spiritual exegesis in which the ...

@1689Broadcast The Great Tradition was a three-legged stool made up of spiritual exegesis, Nicene dogma, and Christian Platonist metaphysics. By pressing deep into the meaning of the text contemplatively, spiritual exegesis yielded the trinitarian and christological dogmas, which in turn... @1689Broadcast generated certain metaphysical doctrines such as creation ex nihilo and the reality of the spiritual realm. The metaphysics then created a hospitable context for further spiritual exegesis in which the interpreter penetrated through the literal sense to that to which the text...

Numerous news sources have verified that Pelosi did, in fact, partake of the Mass in the Vatican, with Francis presiding. There is simply no way to miss the meaning. Francis knows she has been barred in San Francisco. Allowing her to partake is a *massive* signal. Meanwhile, ... on Father's day in Chicago in Cardinal Cupich's diocese a "married" gay couple were invited to speak as part of the ceremony of the Mass and to promote gay marriage and homosexuality.

Please do not even start with the "well, they have to say 'We define'" stuff. ...

Evidently our Great Tradition Baptist thought leaders have decided to stay far, far away from actually telling us how we can define the GT in light of the Second Nicene Council, as per Monday’s Dividing Line. Fully understandable! The reality is, these men have no consistent ... way of disambiguating the traditions in theology proper they wish to demand of us in our modern context from the rest of the theology that actually produced medieval practice and belief. So, on the one hand, they wish to tell us you cannot have a full, balanced, robust, and ...

Goodness, I missed out an all the Nicea fun today! That's what I get for being uber busy with other things.

The Nicene Creed (not the Nicene canons, hence, you cannot be a truly strict subscriptionist, historically speaking) itself underwent some change, actually. ... That is, what was actually promulgated at Nicea in 325 was shorter than the normally memorized version today. The so-called “Filioque Clause” was added later, in the West (man, THERE is a can of worms), and the section on the Holy Spirit was expanded later in the 4th century.

Remember, we are mortals, seeing not even an inch in front of us into the future, and forgetting so quickly the past. We judge by the present and our ignorance. Even three centuries of darkness would be but a brief interregnum of just judgment. What if, just perhaps, such a period will reveal with brilliant clarity the true nature of man, his deep evil, and the reality of his creatureliness? What if it is part of God's eternal decree to crush every enemy under the feet of the Lord Jesus?

How fast can the foundations crumble? How fast can what was once clear, obvious, even a given, now be forgotten, ignored, and in fact, become unspeakable? Let's consider Chicago's mayor Lori Lightfoot. The actions Lightfoot has been taking against churches are unprecedented, especially given the city's failure to stem the flow of blood from gang violence that has claimed far more lives by murder than Covid-19 could ever manage within the city.

A few observations on the SBC developments regarding the pastor's conference, the BF&M, etc.

1) Defenders of the move toward egalitarianism are pretending to be obtuse. The objection is H. Wong takes the title "teaching pastor." Condoleezza Rice does not. 2) I have stated for 20+ years that the BF&M suffers from "holditalltogetherism." That is, it lacks the specificity that comes from a unified theological tradition. It "bends" to allow for the "big tent," and as a result, can be abused by those seeking redefinition.

I find it odd that when I stepped in to point out it is slanderously false to accuse either @ApologiaStudios (Apologia Church) or @SummrWrites (Sheologians) of harboring support for, or promotion of, FVism—silence fell upon the land. Even the crickets held their peace. @ApologiaStudios @SummrWrites I spoke on the error of FVism for years after the AA conference. Did debates, seminars, etc. I noted at the time the commonalities, yet very different starting points, of FV and NPP proponents. Even got to do a mini-debate with NT Wright. And one thing about FVism….

I would like to respond to Duke Kwon’s thread about Neo-Marxism that is making the rounds. Since it was posted on Twitter, I will respond in kind.
The thread rightly notes the defining characteristics of NM that have been observed so frequently of late. Specifically, we see the acceptance on the part of many of the fundamental and defining categories of oppression and all its accompanying terminology, together with the assumption that these are systemic, that is, built into the American culture.