During the 1990s Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible was widely read in British, Continental European and American Schools, introducing Miller’s own particular Hollywood-style morals at the cost of Christian truths. Here is an article originally published in the Spring of 1991 in Spectrum, a magazine for Christian teachers. A colleague by the name of Dr. David Barratt responded and I was asked to briefly …
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… alike as the men who, in their twisted religious zeal, sent dozens of innocents to the scaffold. Arthur Miller, the self-styled moral reformer and author of The Crucible, a dramatised account of the Salem Witch Trials which the author claims is historical, sums up all the antipathy poured out against the Mathers by declaring that Cotton Mather incorporated ‘absolute evil’ 2 . Elsewhere he speaks of Mather’s doing his uttermost to have the witches hanged in spite of the opposition …
… marrow of Christian doctrine. This lack of knowledge concerning the Reformation has led to Phil Arthur’s (4:7) serious historical inaccuracies and anachronisms which would need a sound article to put them right. So, too, F.B. Ellis (0:8) has obviously read none of England’s Reformers on the Word of God or he would not have striven to defend certain Presbyterian and Baptists traditions from a Bible which is silent on them.
Harmon on Fuller
Nov 7
… been happily preserved from using Harmon’s invectives.
Harmon’s recommendation of Arthur Kirkby’s work contra Ella suggests that he never read beyond my Introduction. Kirkby’s most balanced thesis, which I recommend in my work, was the basis of my studies on Fuller. I consulted Dr. Kirkby personally on two occasions for guidance. Kirkby argues in his thesis that one can sum up Fuller’s theology of salvation in the slogan “I can if I will”. My work shows that Kirkby …
The Problem of Fullerism
Aug 24
… Here, Fahy strives to make our Reformers and Puritans, and especially John Gill, toe the line with Arthur Pink concerning the alleged duties of the unconverted to exercise saving faith. In doing so, he puts forward antitheses which were certainly never taught by those whom he claims are his mentors. Fahy teaches that the Apostles never preached the law but instead ‘preached Christ’, thus drawing a false dichotomy between the law and the Fulfiller of it. Where the Spirit works in preaching, …
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… Century scholars such as Morris Fuller, Charles Hardwick, Josiah Allport, Thomas Scott and Samuel Miller have done invaluable work in analysing the evidence. However, a modern rediscovery of the ‘real’ Synod of Dort is made difficult by the accounts of Arminian and Amyraldian authors such as Peter Heylin, Daniel Tilenus, Edmund Calamy, Bishop Tomline and John Goodwin, who have played havoc with the facts. These facts have also been distorted recently by fringe groups who unite the two …
Pink on Satisfaction
Aug 18
Arthur Pink, The Satisfaction of Christ: Studies in the Atonement, Truth for Today Publications.
Arthur Pink hardly needs an introduction to the bulk of present day Reformed evangelicals as many of us have grown up with Pink’s books and grown in grace whilst reading them. Pink’s massive tome An Exposition of Hebrews has opened our eyes to covenant blessings, his Elijah (now …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… his The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation will show that Fuller majors on this very point. Arthur Kirkby is quite correct when he so succinctly sums up Fuller’s belief in the words ‘I could if I would’.
Oliver accuses me of misusing sources whereby he means that he either lacks information which I have or he interprets these things differently, or, as in at least five cases, he has overlooked my evidence. I am, for instance, accused of getting Abraham Taylor’s …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… up this precious doctrine.
Separating the inseparable
Symptomatic of this trend is Arthur W. Pink’s work The Satisfaction of Christ . Long out of print, this book has recently been republished, highlighting the modern taste for an atonement without at-one-ment. Pink, known otherwise as a pillar of orthodoxy, though his works usually appear in highly edited forms, is now published verbatim as denying the Biblical doctrine of reconciliation. Indeed, in his denial Pink …
