The radical two-kingdoms perspective has recently addressed homosexual marriage. The result has been erudition in the service of confusion. This result includes the familiar R2K progression: 1) There is a social conflict involving civil law and Christian values. 2) “Christians should not seek to promote distinctively Christian doctrines and practices through the properly coercive power [...]
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It’s best not to accuse others of being motivated by old grudges when you yourself are leading a whole movement based on one. Something I once heard about splinters and planks. . . . Just some brief comments today on John Frame’s great new book The Escondido Theology: A Reformed Response to Two Kingdom Theology, [...]
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It’s amazing what you can find on the internet. Don’t ask me how I stumbled across this the other night, but I found a quotation from yours truly cherry-picked for the consumption of the radical two kingdoms (R2K) crowd, courtesy of one of the White Horse Inn’s own, Kim Riddlebarger. Riddlebarger commonly hosts a “Who [...]
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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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The tyranny of the Welfare States we currently live under (throughout the world, but the West especially) is a direct outfall of “two-kingdoms” style theology. By setting up a false division between heavenly and secular matters, the Church has consistently mismanaged its wealth and abdicated its social responsibilities. Then, when the poor—even the poor within the Church—come into need, they are told, or it is assumed, that their needs shall be met by the civil order (which is presumably not Christian, or quasi-Christian at best). How’s it look for Christian charity when the Christians direct their own to the pagans for charity? And when the pagans got their funds through theft to begin with?
Full Story » 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 [...]
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