Colin Samul

Short, sweet and to the point (just 72 pages). This little book is worth picking up. “When I arrived at Grove City College in 2018, I asked a colleague what student rebellion at Grove City looked like. With a smile he answered, “It looks like coming from a home church that is broadly evangelical and here deciding to join Grace Anglican.” Grace Anglican Church is a congregation of the Anglican Church in North America, which worships according to the Book of Common Prayer. Many times in the years since, I have asked students why they choose to attend Grace Anglican. The answers always involve reference both to the historic liturgy and to the historic theology. In short, there is a rising generation of young people who want historical roots for both the way they worship God and the way they think about him. This is an important development. This growing appetite among younger, thoughtful Christians for something more theologically and historically substantial gives us all the opportunity to make Protestant evangelical life much deeper, both theologically and doxologically. Since the 1950s, Reformed evangelicals in America and Europe have drawn deeply on the piety of the Puritans. Now the scholarly work has been done that allows us to draw on their theology proper and to ground it in the earlier writings of both the patristic and medieval periods. In so doing, we are simply recovering those catholic aspects of our own Reformation heritage that have been lost.”

🚨MAJOR🚨 🚨BREAKING🚨 🚨NEWS🚨 Joseph Mede’s “The Key of the Revelation” will be available soon from @BerithPress . I began this project a couple of years ago, but put it on hold due to other projects. Editing is now complete along with the preface. Mede’s commentary is not only the “key” to understanding Revelation, but also the historical key to understanding the development of Reformed eschatology/historicism. This long unpublished work will include William Twisse’s introduction/preface and charts that we developed to track with the “synchronisms” that Mede lays out. Official date will be forthcoming.

Just got done interviewing with Steve Deace again. Always a pleasure to be on his program. Thankful for solid evangelical Christians with media platforms. The interview should be posted some time after the election next month. I will be sure to post it when available.

From the original RP Declaration and Testimony.

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“I don’t think that drunk Catholic girl made good arguments or is marriage material.”

I found an intact/readable copy of Thomas Sproull’s Systematic Theology in the Coldenham Library (Sproull was a Professor at what is now RPTS in the mid 19th century). His introduction had some interesting things to say in the area of epistemology that sound prescient if a Van Tillian/Presuppositional approach, especially the emphasis upon not “answering a fool according to his folly” (Prov. 26:4). “It may be alleged as a defect in this work, that there is so little notice taken of the assaults of scientists at the present time, on the fundamentals of the Christian faith. For this I make no apology, but I give an explanation. The attentive reader of the introduction, will see that the course I marked out for myself did not lead me in the direction of that fortress of the enemies of divine truth. Taking faith in the word of God as the guide, and viewing reason in its proper place when receiving as true the revelations made to faith, there was no common ground on which I could meet them. They refuse to allow the Bible to be the standard by which the questions at issue are to be tried. And shall we yield, and allow that position to their interpretations of science? It is doubtless policy on their part to drag us into the darkness in which they are enveloped, that opposing them with their own weapons, they may be assured of an easy victory. But would it be wise in us to yield, and leave our vantage ground? Paul warns Timothy to “avoid, (turn away from,) vain babblings, and the oppositions of science falsely so called.”—I. Tim. 6:20. What would be thought of the wisdom of one who would attempt, by reason and argument, to convince persons who were shut up in darkness from their childhood, of the beauty and utility of light? Would it not be the right way to open a window and admit the light, that they might see for themselves? This is God’s way to remove spiritual darkness. The “gospel is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them—But God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”—II. Cor. 4:4, 6. The Holy Spirit does not send us to science, that the darkness of our minds may be dispelled; but to his word: “We have a more sure word of prophecy unto which we do well if we take heed, as to the light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in our hearts.”—II. Pet. 1:19.”

Whenever Reformation era writers refers to St. Augustine as “Austin,” this is basically what I picture.