Reformed

The Christian Associates Thinkings group will be getting together in the Hague in October to explore the question of what it means to proclaim Christ as Lord in a post-Christendom, post-modern and religiously pluralist Europe. With that in mind I recently got hold of a copy of a smallish book called The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World, edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor, knowing full well that it was not going to be especially sympathetic to an emerging perspective. The chapter on ‘The Church and the Supremacy of Christ’ by Mark Driscoll caught my eye for a particular reason that I will come to later.

Federal Theology (Covenant Theology) is at the heart of the relationship between humanity and God. John Owen (1616-83) was the finest proponent of this theology and we have much to learn from his approach. The genius of Owen was to weld together Biblical scholarship with personal experience.

When you buy a brand new puzzle & take it home to put together there are a few things you presuppose. You presuppose the picture on the box is how the puzzle will look once you put it together. You presuppose that all the pieces are in the box. You presuppose that all the pieces have been appropriately made to fit together. This is what we call “Presuppositionalism”.