Author Archives: Peter Van Kleeck Jr. Ph.D.

I came across this tweet a couple days ago and I thought that there is an interesting comparison to be made between the current academic authorities behind what counts as the New Testament and the current academic authorities behind public school curriculum. The latter is mentioned in the tweet below and the former follows. ForContinue reading “Non-Textual Critic = Layperson”

Continuing our examination of Expressive Individualism and its particular manifestation in the Multiple Version Only Movement, we pick up again with Pastor Ben Wright’s post that we discussed yesterday. Pastor Wright observes, “As Jonathan Leeman puts it in One Assembly, there are unintended consequences to our churches’ expressions both of our members’ individual preferences and ourContinue reading “The Unintended Consequences of Multiple Version Only-ism’s Expressive Individualism (Part 4)”

In this article written by Ben Wright, pastor of Cedar Point Baptist Church in Cedar Park, TX explains what the attractional church methodology [i.e., do whatever it takes to make Church appealing] is, ” We’re offering the experience of worship that you’re looking for.” https://www.9marks.org/article/do-9marks-churches-foster-expressive-individualism/ Let’s make a minor adjustment to the above to seeContinue reading “Does the American Church at Large Foster Expressive Individualism? (Part 3)”

If you’ve spent more than five minutes on the internet over the last couple days you probably ran across this exchange between SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson and Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Blackburn: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” Judge Jackson: “I can’t…not in this context. I’m not a biologist.” In continuationContinue reading “Expressive Individualism, A SCOTUS Nominee, and the Textual Issue (Part 2)”

I am about half way through Carl Trueman’s brilliant work, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Trueman weaves together a beautiful intellectual tapestry by tying together the ideas of men like Charles Taylor, Jean-Joques Rousseau, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Fredrick Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud. Trueman’s aim in gathering such a distinguished groupContinue reading “Expressive Individualism and Multiple Version Only-ism (Part 1)”