When “Church history” is really "Dirty European Monarch" history, why defend it?  Jesus built a Revolution, not an Institution.

We love our Reformed brethren like Mark Driscoll, guest speaker at XSI, but we wince at the evangelists of Reformed theology! (See John Piper's eloquent sermon at Mars Hill.) Irregardless, it is useful to know the lively history of theology and its powerful impact on Christian lives today. It raises a simple

A group of Gen-X Christian leaders are emerging (not Emergent) with innovative church-planting strategies and a refreshing, quasi-relevancy untypical for the old Reformed school of theology. In order to appreciate their (belated, but good) restlessness, we now continue to trace the development of this theology from part one in The Restless Reformed,

In The Dawn of Covenant Theology we described the rise of Reformed Theology and its distinctive characteristics, especially the phenomena of the Visible and Invisible Church. We now show how it further developed into a phenomena in church history we call Institutionalized Christianity.

People are aware of the big differences between various forms of Christianity, and it's confusing. But the differences are really quite simple: traditions! When Christian communities get tangled in traditions, the "Fear Factor" spreads and grows, and the Bible gets irrelevant and confusing. Grand institutions are built for security, but institutions also snuff-out spiritual

The Young, Restless Reformed are leaders of remarkable movements in the Reformed tradition.1 Their “bleeding edges” are split into the Emergent Church and Piper-Reformed Church movements racing away from the Reformed status quo still held by senior citizens. But dead traditions remain unchallenged in the new movements. The Restless Reformed are courageous, but they