Michael J. Lynch
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Classical Languages & Humanities @DEValleyCS . Davenant & Hypothetical Universalism @OUPAcademic . Teaching Fellow @DavenantInst . #GigEm
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Biden quoting Is. 6 and applying it to the American military. Is that Christian nationalism?
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Alright folks. I’m giving away a free copy of my book. Retweet and like for a chance to win the copy.
I will be doing the same on Facebook. No need to enter a second time.
A winner will be drawn on Friday.
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We don’t need shorter sermons; we need better ones
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Christian nationalism is a distinctly Protestant position. The Reformation was, at its core, a moving away from Roman Catholicism to Christian nationalism.
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It is super cringe to talk as if the reason the OT theocracy didn’t work was because of how it was set-up.
You do know who set-up the OT theocracy, right?
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Y'all want his reasons? I'm not sure you do. It'll make the most patriarchal modern patriarch blush.
Don't shoot the messenger! Johann Zwinger (late 17th c. Professor at Basel):
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Don’t cede medieval theology to the Roman Catholics.
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That Peter Leithart's two-volume commentary on Revelation is not on this list is a crime. It is phenomenal. Can't stop reading. Easily the best modern commentary I've ever read. It is attuned to everything: Theology, liturgy, lexicology, history, etc.
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I have it on good authority that a fifth volume of Muller's PRRD is currently being written. It will cover Reformed philosophy - metaphysics and natural theology. The first four volumes are also being edited and updated and should see a new edition with the fifth volume.
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Matthew 23:3: "But do not do what [the Pharisees] do, for they do not practice what they preach."
They did not follow God's law.
Actually, Megan, the Pharisees were the ones following God’s law to a tee. They were the strictest of the law followers. What they weren’t doing is loving their neighbors. This was Jesus saying “calling ‘Lord, Lord’ means nothing if you don’t love.”
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Purity culture circa 419.
Who knew conservative evangelicals had such sway.
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Christ died for all, sufficiently. Christ died for the elect alone, effectually.
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Look what came in the mail. Anyone heard of this book before?
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There is a moral hierarchy. Some sins are objectively worse than others.
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What if I told you that there are plans to publish the Leiden Synopsis (Synopsis Purioris) in an English only edition for a lot less than Brill sells their volumes.
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Make seminary a place where people can learn to read this:
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One of the sins prohibited by the second commandment according to the Westminster Divines is "tolerating a false religion."
The Americans deleted that.
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If Christ is king over all, then all other kings are obligated to recognize Christ’s kingship over them. This entails that some form of Christian nationalism is an obligation for all states.
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So, I've been informed that the second oldest publisher in the world,
@OUPAcademic
, has decided to publish my dissertation on Davenant! Better start saving your money now!
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Oh, and note another big fail for the "inerrancy is a modern doctrine" crowd.
Also, if this isn't the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura, I don't know what that doctrine is.
Very Protestant sounding Thomas (ST, Iª q. 1 a. 8 ad 2).
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I don’t believe it. Almost certainly this includes people who said they were PCA but were in fact PCUSA. I’d suspect somewhere like 10% max.
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Trueman’s “endorsement” of Tipton’s new book on Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology.
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Another L of the inerrancy is a 19th C doctrine crowd.
Wow, Aquinas leaves no room at all for the gospels or the Bible to contain falsehoods "because faith would be deprived of its certitude which is based on the authority of Holy Writ."
Not Aquinas' best moment tbh
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Apparently Francisco Suarez failed his entrance exam for the study of theology at Salamanca twice before passing.
In other words, there's hope for you, dear underachiever.
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It’s arrived.
Below: Dissertationes Duae (1650); Expositio Epistulae ... ad Colossenses (1639)
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Lot of evangelicals (including Reformed) who got a "proper seminary education" were making bad Trinitarian mistakes during the latter part of the 20th c. into the 2000's before folk starting calling it out.
Seminaries were teaching this stuff--that's where it came from.
Maybe getting a proper seminary education before writing theology is not a bad idea after all?
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Just sent to the publisher my editorial introduction to the revised translation of Davenant’s De Morte Christi.
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Voetius made theologians—even foreign ones—wait while he finished up teaching the little kids their catechism.
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Very Protestant sounding Thomas (ST, Iª q. 1 a. 8 ad 2).
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Potential PCA seminar for next year: How pastors can acquaint themselves with well-known information about public figures.
State Clerk Bryan Chapell: "Had I known some of the ways that the panelist has expressed himself or been understood in past writings, I would have made a different choice for the purposes of this seminar. Without seeking to debate or invalidate the merits of any brothers’
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Works I most want translated.
1. Becanus' Sum of Scholastic Theology
2. Forbes' Historical Theology
3. Le Blanc's Disputations
4. Voetius' Select Disputations
5. Strang(ius)' on God's Will and Actions re: Sin
6. Ruiz de Montoya on the Trinity
7. Du Moulin's Philosophical Works
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In Reformed theology, total depravity is largely about our inability to exercise saving faith apart from God’s grace. It also never entails that we commit all particular sins.
Goodnight.
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At the Synod of Dordt, one of the issues which needed to be addressed was whether children of slaves who are brought into a Christian household are to baptized. Over the next couple weeks, I'm going to be translating for the first time the various delegations opinions on the ?.
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Is this … Christian nationalism?
NEW -- More than 300 Black churches across VA will hear from
@KamalaHarris
btwn Sun. and November 2 in video message that will air during morning services as part of outreach effort aimed to boost
@TerryMcAuliffe
.
#VAGOV
Video first obtained by CNN
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@tlloydcline
and I co-teaching a course on early modern political theology via Richard Baxter. Christian Nationalism, Baxter-style.
Interest?
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Very scary. Also, good gospel presentation here.
Pastor Doug Wilson is the Christian nationalist they warned you about.
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*Davenant rolls in grave*
I’d like Anglicanism to redefine itself as a bridge between Rome and Constantinople, representing also a sustained Renaissance, Platonic reform in the spirit of Cusa, Ficino, Giles of Viterbo, John Colet. As nothing whatsoever to do with the heresiarch of Geneva (Jean Calvin).
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Where is the review part of the book review?
Richard M. Gamble of
@Hillsdale
in
@OrthodoxPC
Ordained Servant: "Christianity and Nationalism." More to chew on here than just a book review.
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The first ever graduate of Harvard was a Calvinist who held to hypothetical universalism. No wonder Harvard went so liberal, amirite?
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For the second year in a row, I'm going to be defending these theses (written by myself) before a class of 9th graders in a western civ. class (which I don't teach).
Here I stand.
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I'm editing a new
@DavenantInst
critical edition of Davenant's *De Morte Christi,* where he argues for his view on the extent of Christ's atoning work.
It is the longest scholastic treatment by a Reformed theologian in the early modern period.
Chapter 1. Done.
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“Well done, good and faithful servant” does not/will not mean: well done, for simply receiving Christ’s imputed righteousness. Run the race to win the crown doesn’t mean (at least primarily, to be generous) Christ ran the race himself and therefore you will receive the crown.
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This fall I’ll be teaching a course for
@DavenantInst
I’ve always wanted to teach: An Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism. I’ll cover periods, people, and methods of interpretation. I’ll give as much advice as I can. Should be a blast.
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What if I doubt my salvation?
Baxter: Do your duty. Love God and neighbor.
(Some) modern evangelicals: Nothing.
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Working on my editorial introduction to a revised and updated translation of Davenant's De Morte Christi for
@DavenantInst
Projected to come out in the Fall!
*it's happening gif*
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@gavinortlund
You won't. There was even division among the medievals about which ones were instituted by Christ (and which ones weren't) and whether the sacraments need to be instituted by Christ to be a sacrament.
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The most overlooked aspect of the Protestant Reformation: No papal ecclesiastical or civil jurisdiction. Give that jurisdiction to the civil magistrate.
Most modern Protestants either ignore this or chalk it up to power-hungry magistrates.
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Cool fact: Calvin says that Moses learned about primeval history via generational story-telling passed down to Moses and then inscripturated in the Pentateuch.
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The Larger Catechism
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If I had complete control of a seminary, I'd make all students read Aristotle's Metaphysics, not because I think it's the best (it isn't), but because it is essential to make sense of early modern theology and philosophy. I'd prefer Suarez, but it isn't (generally) anglicized.
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Upcoming lecture…
Thomistic Calvinism and Calvinistic Thomism: An Early Modern Consensus on Predestination, Reprobation, and Free Choice?
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It wasn't until my PhD program that I actually received a thorough acquaintance with classic metaphysics, epistemology, etc. All my degrees are from Christian schools and were in theology and Bible. I can resonate with Dr. Mathison's own education. Seminaries can do much better.
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TBF to Grudem's ST, since everyone seems to be dunking on it.
1) There weren't a lot of easily accessible STs (from a Calvinistic perspective) available. No Bavinck RD in English. No Horton. Hodge has a whole bunch of untranslated bits.
2) Every evangelical was messing with DoG
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What do we plan on reading in my upcoming
@DavenantInst
class?
Muller?✔️
Origen?✔️
Scotus?✔️
Luther?✔️
Zanchi?✔️
Baxter?✔️
Based Leiden Theologians?✔️
Walaeus on Aristotle?✔️
Turretin?✔️
Davenant?✔️
Join me!
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I wrote a thing.
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Some random observations about the excellent
@gavinortlund
video on veneration of icons and the surrounding conversation.
1. People continue to shift the goal posts. The question both historically and theologically is the practice and legitimacy of the *cultic* use of icons.
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My wife is one of the hardest working people I know. She takes care of 5 children, attempts to keep our house in order, fixes all sorts of things in the house, helps me keep my crazy schedule, tends a garden, etc.
This may or may not be compelling, but she *is* a suitable helper
The biggest problem facing the evangelical "complementarian" gender theology is its inability to articulate a compelling role for women apart from wife and mother. Unsurprisingly, this is unappealing to women with talents and inclinations beyond that, or who are single.
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From a friend. Owen on the necessity of good works as a means for salvation.
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Reformed natural law is the classic version!
Working on this project with
@ZonderAcademic
. Writing the introduction over the next two weeks with
@RyanTAnd
and then it is off to the publisher for a 2025 release. Really, really strong essays showing the spectrum of views on natural law. All the essays are wonderful, but the
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You all did know that for the first time in history (as far as I'm aware) Thomas Aquinas' *Commentary on Lombard's Sentences* has been translated into English, right?
Also, it just so happens to be freely available here:
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Lots of Vermigli in my upcoming
@DavenantInst
lecture.
For his period, Vermigli is really great.
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Don't shoot the messenger! Johann Zwinger (late 17th c. Professor at Basel):
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Possible upcoming
@DavenantInst
course?
Issues in Reformed Theology.
E.g., Regeneration and baptism; Images of Christ; Extent of atonement; Supra/Infra; RPW; Sabbath; Polity; Paedocommunion; Spirituality of Church;
Others?
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John Owen:
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God,’
So he said, but no actual fool has ever really believed it.
If no fool outright denies God’s existence, then who is
The true atheist? The one who wishes there were no God.”
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We need a new edition of Charles Hodge's ST.
I once believed that it was probably overrated, but now having read extensive portions of it, I've changed my mind. I've also realized that most people cannot profit from it the way they ought b/c of all the foreign language bits.
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Does membership in your local church require more than membership in heaven? If so, maybe that shouldn't be the case.
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Returning to the Sources: The Scholarship of Richard Muller - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
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Humanities degrees, including seminary degrees, should be more tutor-based where reading and rhetorical exercises are primary. This should be supplemented by lectures. Seminaries should especially emphasize the rhetorical exercises, such as disputations.
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“Religion is so far, in my opinion, from being out of the province of a Christian magistrate, that it is, and it ought to be, not only his care, but the principal thing in his care; and its object the supreme, good, the ultimate end and object of man himself.” ~ Burke
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It’s almost as if Aristotle and Thomas had that thing called common sense.
St. Thomas Aquinas’ commentary on immigration policy. “For they were not at once admitted to citizenship, (but only) after two or three generations. (For) if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down, many dangers might occur…”
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I can't even do justice to this 🔥 quote by Davenant (originally in Latin.
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Anyone want the Saumurian Theological Theses published for the first time in English?
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If y'all haven't watched this yet, y'all really should!
Hart goes postal.
@tlloydcline
, as usual, is always the most sane.
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Early Modern Christian views on slavery. Molina, Baxter, and Mather.
Would you take this course if offered?
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Bullinger's answer to the catechism question:
Explain to me in a true and simple way the following words in the creed, "He descended into hell."
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Having spent a month with Jonathan Edwards and his covenant theology, I have to say that I find it remarkably clear and coherent in relation to other Post-Reformation theologians. I still prefer Baxter's model, but Edwards is extremely insightful on the intra-Reformed debates.
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Not all paedobaptists. Plenty held to either baptismal regeneration or presumptive regeneration. Mark should know this.
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