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Some Thoughts on Limited Atonement and Polemics

Cody Dolinsek
May 21, 2015
It is always important before attacking an opponent’s position to ascertain what is being defended. Having answered this question, it is important to ask oneself whether what one’s opponent is defending is something one would defend oneself. If we can decide that our opponents in any given area of...

John Murray and Reverent Worship

Cody Dolinsek
Mar 15, 2015
One Sunday morning, after the church service ended, the late Professor John Murray of Westminster Seminary was approached by a student. “Graded our papers yet, Professor Murray?” the student asked. Murray was silent, almost certainly leaving the student bewildered and embarrassed. The next...

Confessional Fidelity and Divine Love

Cody Dolinsek
Jan 5, 2015
It is expected that denominations whose lifeblood is constituted by one of the great historic confessions should subscribe to them. The Church of England subscribes to the Thirty-Nine Articles, Lutherans to the Book of Concord, Dutch Reformed Calvinists to the Three Forms of Unity, and...

Divine Simplicity: Is God Really that Simple?

Cody Dolinsek
Dec 24, 2014
One might well ask why it is important to hold to the view that God is simple. Indeed, before one asks this question, one might ask a clarifying question: What in the world does it even mean to say that God is simple? The notion of simplicity is confusing because of how it is commonly understood in...

Antinomianism: Rhetoric, Extremes, and Safety

Cody Dolinsek
Oct 21, 2014
Theology becomes a dangerous weapon when its terms become rhetorical arrows with which to shoot adversaries instead of tools that are supposed to lend clarity to whatever topic is under discussion. Antinomianism is perhaps one of the most abused terms in theological discourse. It is meant to be a...