Time and time and time again, May 13th, 2024. Introduction. I read and greatly appreciated Timon's engagement with the point I made on Tucker regarding my belief that we are past the point of political solutions.

I agree with a lot of what he said and so this should be considered less of a rejoinder and more of a love

fest clearing up an understandable confusion.

The point I am seeking to emphasize is one I know I've argued before, see particularly

numbers 8 and 9.

But if a friendly critic like Taman doesn't see it,

then clearly I'm not being emphatic enough.

Today, resolving to do better, I'm going to come at it from a different angle.

Banner of truth truth post-mill

pietism. But before attempting to make myself understood in this matter, I want to

have a shot at explaining why it might be a challenge to make myself understood

in this matter. Let us begin with the fact that I'm a post-Mellanialist, one who became post-Mill in the

80s and a son of the Puritans. Let that set the stage. As such, one of the institutions

to which I'm greatly in debt is the banner of truth trust. Those good folks were responsible

for putting numerous Puritan and performed writers back in print. Because of their efforts,

many modern Christians, including me, were introduced to Rutherford Baxter, Sibs, Owen at all.

But the introduction, however beneficial, was still a truncated and partial one.

The reprints that they got back into circulation emphasized our reform fathers

doctrinal integrity and their devotional piety.

Compared to the doctrinal goo and sentimental mush

that many modern evangelicals were being rescued from,

this was all salutary and good, but a fundamental question was still left

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