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	<description>Theopolitical is the weblog of Davey Henreckson, a graduate student in theology at the University of Notre Dame. Topics of conversation are political and historical theology, with semi-frequent forays into literature, economics, localism, and the divine American sport -- baseball.</description>
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		<title>Calvinist assurance and virtue ethics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Westminster Confession’s treatment of the order of salvation spans nine or ten chapters, depending on what “stage” we count as the origin point. On its own, the extensive volume of material on the ordo has led some to fault the Assembly 1) for emphasizing a logical system of progression where Calvin clearly stressed union [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theopolitical.com/?p=1776</link>
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		<title>Reformed politics &#8211; new perspectives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Wedgewords, Steven Wedgeworth and friends have been carrying on a really insightful discussion about ways in which the Reformed tradition should view political authority, toleration, and the doctrine of the two kingdoms. Steven&#8217;s most recent installment reads as a sort of extended manifesto, and makes for excellent (and provocative!) reading. In the contemporary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theopolitical.com/?p=1765</link>
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		<title>Items of note (9/6/10)</title>
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Brad Littlejohn sketches a primer on Christian citizenship.
Alan Jacobs reviews Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s new novel, Freedom.
Newly discovered: Stephen R. Holmes, of the University of St. Andrews&#8217; theology faculty, has a blog: Shored Fragments.
Meddling theologues: Paul Dafydd Jones and Charles Mathewes, of the University of Virginia, have some advice for the President: A New Religious Narrative for Obama.
Ben [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theopolitical.com/?p=1763</link>
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		<title>Leithart on love and creatio ex nihilo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually devote an entire post to quoting another blog, but Peter Leithart&#8217;s response to Thomas Oord&#8217;s critique of creation ex nihilo is well worth the read:
[...] I find little persuasive in Oord’s positive argument, but let me highlight only one point that, to my mind, pulls the rug from his whole project.  Jettison creatio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theopolitical.com/?p=1760</link>
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		<title>Creation and covenant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Westminster standards came into being at a remarkable transitionary time in the Reformed tradition. Not only was the magisterial Reformation approaching its conclusion – with the imminent Stuart Restoration and Puritan migration to the New World – but, in addition, British Calvinism was beginning to adopt the system known as federal theology. In chapters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Items of note (8/25/10)</title>
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Gideon Strauss on love and justice in the public sphere. While it&#8217;s relatively brief, Strauss&#8217; argument reminded me of several passages in Eric Gregory&#8217;s Politics and the Order of Love. I have some reservations about neo-Calvinism, but still &#8212; the similarities between Kuyperianism and Augustinian political theology (in its different forms in Mathewes, Gregory, von [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theopolitical.com/?p=1752</link>
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		<title>Westminster (4): Imputation of sin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his discussion of original sin and the imputation of Adam’s guilt, Letham again navigates between the interpretations of Westminster offered by both Princeton theology and Torrance’s evangelical Calvinism. Both of these viewpoints, according to Letham, mistakenly assume that the Westminster divines were indebted to the emerging system of &#8220;federal theology.&#8221; This strain of Reformed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theopolitical.com/?p=1749</link>
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		<title>Westminster in the 21st century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many contemporary debates about the ‘development’ of doctrine relate to how particular beliefs are embedded in cultural assumptions and practices. This can come out in more or less obvious ways. Regarding the former – let’s call them doctrinal ‘flashpoints’ – creeds and confessions often originate in response to specific conflicts – Nicea over Arianism, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theopolitical.com/?p=1692</link>
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