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Published: August 10, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Michael Horton is, in many respects, the most intellectually formidable critic of Biblicism in the contemporary Reformed world. Where Sproul was primarily a theological communicator, brilliant at making the Reformation’s insights accessible, Horton is a systematic theologian of genuine technical depth. His arguments against Biblicism are more developed, more…
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Published: August 9, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Days 22 through 24 engage the named critics directly. Not dismissal. Not caricature. Their actual arguments, stated as fairly as possible, engaged with the precision and the respect their genuine scholarship deserves. The first named critic is R.C. Sproul. Acknowledging Sproul’s contribution before critiquing his argument is not a…
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Published: August 8, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The argument of the last ten days has been building toward a name. The mechanism of Days 11-15. The straw men of Days 16-18. The Spirit and scholarship of Days 19-20. Every post in this section has been approaching, from different angles, the single most important claim in the…
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Published: August 7, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com There is a widespread assumption embedded in the critics’ case against Biblicism that has gone largely unexamined in this series. It is not the naivety charge, though the naivety charge depends on it. It is not the anarchy charge, though the anarchy charge implies it. The assumption: that confessionalism…
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Published: August 6, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The straw men have been answered. Today the argument enters new territory, not defending Biblicism against misrepresentation, but addressing the most theologically sophisticated objection to the Biblicist position. The objection is this: the Holy Spirit’s work does not end with the Scripture. The Spirit who breathed out the Word…
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Published: August 5, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The final straw man. The charge that has perhaps the most emotional force of the three, because it sounds, at first hearing, like a genuine defense of something worth defending. Biblicism dismisses the whole tradition. It treats two thousand years of Christian thought as worthless. It acts as if…
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Published: August 4, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Yesterday, the naivety charge. Today, the charge that has been deployed most effectively by Roman Catholic apologists and confessionalist Protestants alike: Biblicism produces anarchy. Without a governing interpretive authority, the Magisterium, the confessional tradition, the Bible produces endless fragmentation. Every individual reads it differently. Every community arrives at different…
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Published: August 3, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Days 16 through 18 are a different kind of argument. Not constructive, the positive case has been built. Not historical, the Reformers’ testimony has been established. Not structural, the mechanism has been named and the diagnostic tests offered. These three days are responsive. They engage the specific charges that…
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Published: August 2, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Five days of the confessionalism argument. The mechanism described. The diagnostic tests offered. The locations identified. The pastoral consequences named. Today, the most precise single argument in the series so far. Not the argument from the Reformers’ method, though that argument was decisive. Not the argument from the mechanism’s…
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Published: August 1, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The mechanism has been described. The locations have been identified. Today, the people. Not the institutions, not the structures, not the theological arguments. The specific human beings who have spent years inside confessional communities and experienced what the mechanism produces in the actual texture of Christian life. The pastor.…
