Zrim explains
QIRC
This Guy Gets It
This is one of the better summaries of ch. 2 of RRC I’ve seen so far.
Jason is Reading RRC
At De Regnis Duobus (Concerning the Two Kingdoms).
Stephen is Reading RRC
At Frightfully Pleased.
Reuben is Reading RRC
At the Confessional Outhouse.
Pastor Dechert is Reading RRC
At Guard Yourselves from Idols.
New Edition of "The Creationists" by Numbers
Ronald Numbers has done terrific work on the history of the creationist movement in N. America. He has revised his earlier work to account for the intelligent design movement. Everyone on all sides of this issue should read this book.
Cally Likes RRC!
It has to do with being delivered from a quirky form form of QIRC. You can order your copy of RRC here.
Phil is Reading RRC and Living It
And reflecting on it at his blog. He’s a minister in the other URC, the UK equivalent of the American United Churches of Christ. So it’s very much in the mainline where the URCNA is very much in the sideline. So it’s . . . Continue reading →
Pastor Echert is Still Reading RRC
He’s through the middle of the book and gives a fine summary.
Someone Should Write a Book About This Phenomenon
Lily Fowler, at Slate.com describes the QIRE very well. She sees what many Christians are unable or unwilling to see: “But Promise Keepers also offered something different from a church: an unmediated relationship with God. [emphasis added -rsc] The stadium rallies produce an . . . Continue reading →
Revisiting the URC Creation Decision
At Bylogos Dr John Byl, Professor of Mathematics at Trinity Western University and Member of the Advisory Board of Reformation International College comments on a joint letter that Kim Riddlebarger, Mike Horton, and I sent to the Christian Renewal in 2001. Dr . . . Continue reading →
Another Federal Visionist Popes
Wes White has the story. It’s not the first time. It probably won’t be the last. According to the FV, baptism creates a temporary, conditional union with Christ, temporary, conditional justification etc. Those benefits are retained by grace and cooperation with grace. . . . Continue reading →
It's Not Just Evangelicals Who Are QIRC-y and QIRE-ish
Can you say theologia gloriae? I can say, theologia crucis.
Harold Camping May Never Learn But Will We?
Harold Camping has shown himself to be a false prophet. He promised that our Lord would return in 1994. Jesus didn’t return. Camping erred but he remains impenitent and unashamed. Indeed, he’s now promising that Jesus will return in 2011 (HT: Austin . . . Continue reading →
What’s Your Super Secret Decoder Ring?
The Lure of the QIRC
In the 1950s, children listened to radio serials, weekly episodes of superman or other heroes. As part of these programs incentives to listen, such as a super-secret decoder ring, were offered. In my childhood the radio serials were replaced by cereal boxes . . . Continue reading →
How Many Ex Cathedra Pronouncements Are There?
One of the principal reasons that some Protestants have given for converting to Rome is the desire for certainty, to escape the alleged uncertainty attached to the confessional Protestant doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture. The unstated implication is that, in Rome, . . . Continue reading →
Vatican I On Papal Infallibility
Sola Scriptura v Solo Papatu
We teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman pontiff speaks ex cathedra, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines . . . Continue reading →
Prediction: Harold Won’t Miss This Deadline
Zeke Piestrup has made a documentary following Harold Camping (and see this post) and company in the days leading up to and just after May 21, 2011, the day Camping had said Jesus would return—Apocalypse Later: Harold Camping vs. The End Of The . . . Continue reading →
The QIRC-er Must Be Right
QIRC is an acronym: Quest for Illegitimate Religious Certainty. It has at least two aspects. The first is the ancient, sinful desire to know what God knows, the way he knows it. That is what the Evil One offered to us in . . . Continue reading →