Creation

Justification By Faith And Social Justice By Works (Part 3)

by Simon Jooste on December 2, 2025 | 2 Comments
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The late German-American political philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) observed that history is marked by recurring attempts to divinize a fallen created order as a way of escaping the anxiety of fragile and finite existence. He identified in the early church heresy of Gnosticism a paradigm for understanding how private spiritual ambitions are transposed into public political projects—from Constantinianism and medieval Christendom to the totalitarianisms of the modern left and right. Continue reading →

Justification By Faith And Social Justice By Works (Part 2)

by Simon Jooste on November 25, 2025 | 2 Comments
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The gospel can be turned into law—even into new religious laws, especially when sweeter fruit is available to stave off the bitter taste of judicial conviction. When fallen creatures turn down contracts with part or all of the moral law, the door invariably opens to various forms of religious innovation, new orders for spiritual justice. Continue reading →

Vos On Adam’s Probation Before The Fall

by Inwoo Lee on July 14, 2025 |

Now, it is true that our moral goodness and our righteousness can be in the closest relationship, that someone good and holy is righteous per se. But still one must be careful to note that righteousness only stems from moral goodness by means of . . . Continue reading →

Aquinas On Creation Days

by Heidelblog on November 4, 2022 |

…That three things are recorded as created, namely, the heaven, the water, and the earth; and these three received their form from the three days’ work of distinction, so that heaven was formed on the first day; on the second day the . . . Continue reading →

In 1949 E. J. Young Was A Framework Man

by Heidelblog on October 18, 2022 |

The work of creation is composed of an hexaemeron, or period of six days, coming to a majestic climax in the resting of the Creator on the seventh day. The length of these days is not stated but a certain correspondence of . . . Continue reading →

E. J. Young On Creation Days And Solar Days

by Heidelblog on September 27, 2022 |

The length of the creation days is not stated. What is important is that each of the days is a period of time which may legitimately be denominated יֹ֔ום (“day”). 4. The first three days were not solar days such as we . . . Continue reading →

The Making Of Lawrence Phillips

by R. Scott Clark on January 14, 2016 |

There must be many ex-football players or ex-athletes and at least a few famous athletes who have ended their athletic careers by committing crimes. Most of those cases simply fall into obscurity but not that of Lawrence Phillips (1975–2016), who was a . . . Continue reading →

Heidelberg 103: The Christian Sabbath (1)

by R. Scott Clark on July 28, 2015 |

If there was a time when the church needed to stop its business, to rest, to worship, and to set aside time for the care of the poor in their midst, that time is now. At no time in its history has . . . Continue reading →

Creational Laws

by R. Scott Clark on December 7, 2014 |

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, . . . Continue reading →