… in the Banner of Truth magazine, surprising and shocking many readers. It was a fierce attack on the person and testimony of William Huntington, known affectionately as ‘the Immortal Coalheaver’. The article, which followed a similar attack on John Gill by Robert Oliver the previous year, was planned to start off what the BOT calls an ‘important controversy’ to warn readers against the traditional Calvinism of these men.
In Huntington’s case (though Gill’s was not …
Posts Tagged Conversation on Substitution
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
Letter on Atonement
Dec 28
… English Churchman defending the term ‘atonement’ as being descriptive of Christ’s full work on the cross.
Sir,
The News & Comment article on the atonement (No. 7686) needs etymological and theological correction. The assertions that ‘at-one-ment’ is a breaking up of ‘atonement’; is only ‘ a result of atonement’ (not atonement itself); and this is merely a ‘marvellous coincidence’; are false. The word ‘atonement’ was intentionally coined from the …
Pink on Satisfaction
Aug 18
… found the first third of the book quite heavy going as Pink deals closely with problems bordering on the metaphysical and philosophical in his attempt to portray the sovereignty of God in salvation. The later part, after around page 200, contains some of the best theological writing I have ever read and shows up the weaknesses of the conditional and universal views of the atonement, one would think, in an irrefutable way. I find, however, that there is much in the previous chapters which …
On ‘Youing’ God
Aug 21
… A third redundancy occurs when a word, because of the first two processes, has not only taken on a more narrow meaning but also a highly negative one and is thus considered either politically or socially offensive. Here in Germany, up to the sixties, ‘heil’ was the normal word used in greeting as it meant, haleness, wholeness, good health or heartiness. Our Saviour, for instance, is called Heiland in German, i.e. the Healer. When Elizabeth II visited Germany in 1662, it was planned to …
Letter on Scientology
Sep 15
… misleading title ‘ Scientology gets Respectable Image ’ in the equally misleading article on that subject (No. 7721). It gives the impression that Scientology is respected in Germany where measures against the sect are stricter than in most other countries, including Britain and the USA. Neither the Osnabrücker Zeitung, nor Wolfgang Bosbach, nor Angela Merkel nor the Coalition Government view Scientology as respectable but see the movement as most dangerous. However, Bosbach’s …
Harmon on Fuller
Nov 7
… as infidels, is plain slander. These brethren and myself have been theological sparring partners on occasions, but we have 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 …
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
Letter to the English Churchman on Hooker
Sir:
Allan Clifford’s ‘objections’ to Dr Beckwith’s evaluation of Hooker are invalid. Beckwith defended Hooker against the London Temple attacks of Travers and Cartwright. Dr. Clifford ignores the entire debate, exchanging Beckwith’s real-life Hooker/Travers/Cartwright history for a Church of England/Calvin fairy-story.
Cartwright zigzagged on the …
Clifford on Schism
Oct 24
… trail of denominational multiplicity. Clifford imagines that what Calvin wrote in his commentary on Timothy about bishops was a criticism of the Reformed Church of England, which he takes as a recommendation for schism. However, Calvin here is expressing the very views of the Reformed Church of England as taught by Bradford, Bucer, Bullinger, Fulke, Grindal, Hooper, Hutchinson, Jewel, Tyndale, and Whitaker. Presbyterian Separatists at the time were striving for a seven-tier Rome-like …
… from the wages of sin without really doing it in practice. The text they build their opinions on is 1 Corinthians 5:21. “For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” We must note here that ‘forensic’ means legal, judicial or a matter of form rather than a matter of fact. The term also means disputative, argumentative or rhetorical. Legal has to do with the works of the law. Rhetoric has to do with declamatory …
Mottos on the Walls
Jan 17
… mid 1950s, Mum sent me a chain of letters, mostly from Memory Lane. Here is a letter she sent me on her earliest childhood entitled ‘Mottos on the Wall.’ Mum was brought up in a poverty-stricken home bereft of a father but could write the account given below in joyous remembrance. How different it was then to the grumpy groaning of modern society who have no Scriptural ‘Mottos on the Walls’:
How well I remember the Mottos once hanging on our bedroom walls. They were …
