Two men set out on a journey. They walk at the same pace, and profess to have the same destination - due north. However, one thing separates the friends: one of their compasses has a defect. It's just slightly off, pointing one degree away from north. The man with the good compass has a sharp... Continue Reading →
Leighton Flowers and ReCalvinizing 1 Corinthians 2:14
The professional anti-Calvinist, Leighton Flowers, has made it his life's work to prop up the autonomy of man against the absolute sovereignty of the God "who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" (Ephesians 1:11). But this is no easy task; the complete inability of man in the face of an all-powerful... Continue Reading →
Rome, Constantinople, and Plotinus: How Neo-Platonic Philosophy Corrupted the Ecclesiology of the Church
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (~5th-6th Century AD) was a heavily influential early church father for medieval Christendom. Thomas Aquinas - the scholastic theologian par excellence - quotes him a whopping 1700 times in his writings [1]. What's more, the Areopagite's writings were greatly consulted by the primary early adversary of Luther, John Eck, specifically in defense... Continue Reading →