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Why Jesus Hates Heresy (And So Should You)
I’d like to take a moment to point something out that may have escaped your attention last time you went to church or watched a Nooma: Jesus and the rest of the New Testament authors don’t like false...
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The Complex Beauty of the Orthodox Jesus (Or, Why Heresy is too Simple)
My pastor’s sermon this week on Christ reminded me why Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics is easily one of the top 5 books I’ve read this year. Amidst the incisive analysis...
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12 Lies Orthodox Christians Can Still Believe About Jesus
Orthodoxy on the person of Christ isn’t a guarantee of true, biblical fidelity. You can sign off on Nicea and the Chalcedonian definition, publicly denounce the biggie heresies like Docetism (Jesus...
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So Rob Bell Wrote Another Book About God — Some Thoughts Before Actually...
A couple of years ago Rob Bell wrote a little book about Heaven, Hell, and all that God stuff. You might have heard of it. If you haven’t, don’t worry about it–he didn’t say anything new. (Or...
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Ireneaus Summarizes the Faith
Historical myopia is a perennial danger to Church, especially in the area of theology. Every generation has its own particular, culturally-conditioned ways of talking about the Gospel, even when it...
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Turning the King Into a Fox (Or, Irenaeus on the Silliness of Heresy)
I love foxes, but still, not as good as Jesus. Among other things I’ve been reading Irenaeus’ classic Against Heresies and loving it. His goal in the work is to describe and debunk the heretical...
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T.S. Eliot’s Definition of Heresy and the Value of Heretics
T.S. Eliot is one of my favorite poets that I don’t read–at least not his poetry. When reading Scruton I found out he had a lecture series involving the notion of heresy, so of course I was intrigued....
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The Theological Importance of Knowing What ‘Time’ It Is
Most of us don’t think of knowing what time it is as a significant theological issue. Beyond showing up promptly out of respect for an acquaintance, or knowing when to get to church on Sunday, how...
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Calvin Summarizes Chalcedonian Christology in Two Paragraphs
After much controversy and struggle in the Church, the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) put out a formal definition on person of Christ, regarding his full divinity, humanity, and the union of the two...
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A Lie About God is a Lie About Life
Our culture likes the idea of heresy. Whenever you see the word ‘heresy’ used on your average blog or article it’s synonymous with bold, controversial, and creative thinking. It is thought not confined...
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Abraham Kuyper Was a Heretic Too
Over the last few years I’ve been saddened to see a number of teachers and preachers of the word of God, along with friends in the pews, begin a sad doctrinal decline, wandering into either...
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Mere Fidelity Podcast: Is there such a thing as Moral Orthodoxy? Heresy?
Well, after a couple of weeks at the podcasting game, we’ve already changed the name. From now on these conversations on theology, culture, and life will be known as Mere Fidelity, an excellent...
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Huckabee and the Heresy of Americanism (CaPC)
“America is a unique nation.” “America is exceptional.” “America is specially blessed by God.” “America has a particular purpose in God’s plan.” If you’ve grown up in the US, especially her American...
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Gentle Heresy-Hunting with Paul
Heresy-hunting gets a bad rap nowadays. If there’s one thing that nobody wants to be, it’s a “heresy-hunter.” And who can blame them? I mean, cruise around the Internet and you’ll find any number of...
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Jude, Corpse-Fights, and Angels: Dealing with Moral Revisionism Then and Now
Michael challenging Satan for Moses’ corpse. Jude, Jesus and James’ little brother, wrote probably the quirkiest little book in the whole New Testament. For one thing, it’s not a typical epistle. It’s...
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Jude on Showing Mercy to Three Types of “Doubters” in the Pews
Last week I wrote a reflection/brief commentary on the short book of Jude. In it I dealt with the general problem of false antinomian teaching that had been cropping up in the church, it’s parallels to...
View ArticleCorrect Error Without Radicalizing Doubt
The first time I got called a heretic, I think I was about 19. I had just started getting into theology, biblical studies, N.T. Wright, that sort of thing, and was slowly walking away from the default...
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