In a previous partial review of Michael Horton’s The Gospel Commission: Recovering God’s Strategy for Making Disciples, I began documenting some of his duplicities in regard to the Lordship of Christ and the meaning of the subject matter of that book. I mentioned how clearly he writes of Christ’s all-encompassing power early in the book, [...]
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I have to say I am greatly impressed by at least one part of a paragraph in Dr. Michael Horton’s new book The Gospel Commission: Recovering God’s Strategy for Making Disciples. He begins his chapters with the important recognition that Jesus’ great commission to the disciples (Matt. 28:18–20) begins with an equally great announcement—an announcement [...]
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Michael Horton is Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary in Escondido, California. He has written a number of popular books on a variety of subjects. His latest book is The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way published by Zondervan in 2011[1]. Horton promotes a two-kingdom worldview that is [...]
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Doug Wilson briefly takes on Michael Horton’s “two-kingdom” nonsense as the latter tried to infuse it as “Reformed” in his recent Tabletalk critique of N.T. Wright: [I]n the last column of the article, the whole thing starts to go south on Horton. He offers this complaint — “Wright also has a clear agenda to get [...]
Full Story » What did John Calvin believe about the natural and moral law? Michael Horton has claimed that he and Calvin very much agree on the realm of heaven’s jurisdiction and man’s to bring order to a people, but Joel McDurmon begs to differ with Michael Horton.
Full Story » Is there no single best way to run a country? Today’s host Joel McDurmon responds to a recent article by Michael Horton (under the pen name Knox Bucer-Beza) in Christianity Today magazine. Horton uses the works of John Calvin in an attempt to make the case that “Christendom is a contrived empire” rather than a [...]
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