Monthly Archives: "May 2010"

A Presuppositional Critique: It’s Inseparability from Faith   By: Jay Dyer I shouldn’t have to go to my local church [!] and end up having to defend the accuracy and authenticity of the Biblical texts. ...

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Jay Sartre explained that the average man hides behind masks and sustains himself on a kind of false existence of wearing masks and role-playing. Nietzsche said much the same of the masses. It is hard to deny...

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This week I read some really good articles I want to pass on. “Temple of Man: Freemasonry, Civil Religion and Education” by: Terry Melanson “The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity” by: Leon J. Podles...

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By: Jay The “television event of the decade” ended with what is, in my opinion, the cheesiest and empty theme it could have possibly had.  As it turns out, as many had speculated, the entire storyline...

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By: Jay If you’ve ever seen the clips of Hitler rallies, one cannot deny that the mass demonstrations are certainly moving. I’m not saying moving in a good way: rather, the pageantry and ritual enchants...

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Part 7 from our old interaction By: Jay Turretinfan responded to the accusation that the strict legal imputation view must necessitate a damning, forsaking, cutting-off, or separation (choose whichever term you wish) of the Son from...

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By: Jay Dyer 2007 I was awestruck while reading a biography on V.I. Lenin recently.  The strange synchronicities concern his creation of a massively extended police state-the “Cheka,” compared with the actions of Hitler and our modern...

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By: Jay I wrote an old artilce on Sacred Tradition and the Book of Enoch, and it’s always interesting to see what St. Augustine said on a subject. In his masterful City of God he speaks of...

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By: Jay Dyer Plato, Philo, Plotinus, Dionysius, Augustine, Basil, John of Damascus, Maximus the Confessor, Isaac the Syrian, John Scotus, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and many others all profess a doctrine of divine exemplarism.  This is Plato’s forms or universals or logoi as located...

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My good friend Jonathan, who at the time was an Anglican seminarian, wrote a great introduction to Christology paper a few years ago. He has since moved into Orthodoxy, but the paper is useful for...

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By: Jay Dyer I had always thought, following James B. Jordan’s analysis as well (in Through New Eyes), that the three levels of the Temple signified a three-tiered, symbolical view of the world. In this view,...

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A Detailed Analysis of the Implications of Reformation Theology By: Jay Dyer St. Gregory of Nyssa wrote of the reason for the Incarnation:  “Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to...

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By: Jay Dyer I was, for several years in my early 20s a supporter of Paul Washer.  To me he seemed a godly leader: A real missionary, and a true “reformer.” I played his sermons...

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Response to Turretinfan’s Monothelitism Post Turretinfan, just as with the single subject issue, doesn’t understand the argument. A fully human will, with its own natural energy, is part and parcel with orthodox Christology, if one...

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“He, the Eternal King, recapitulates everything in himself” (Adversus haereses, III, 21,9) By: Jay Dyer For a long time I assumed that the Eastern notions of the eschaton sounded universalist and heretical. This was based on...

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