Author Archive for: DrOakley

The following exchange took place around the year 2000.  If I am recalling correctly, an unsolicited e-mail arrived with a large “cc” list of people.  As you will see, my initial response was very brief, because I learned long ago that these kinds of impromptu e-mail lists will suck the life right out of you if you let them.  False

It’s so great to find various barbs cast your direction first thing in the morning, especially the morning after you teach for five hours straight (which, while tremendously enjoyable, is likewise very demanding). I get to go from the sublime (sitting with bright students reading directly from the text of Ignatius last evening, noting, for example, his tremendous description of

Well, it finally arrived. George Bryson’s The Dark Side of Calvinism is finally sitting on my desk. Despite only having “seen it from afar,” so to speak, I finally had a chance to look over the work today. The sub-titles are great: “A Biblically-based examination, evaluation, and refutation of the Reformed Doctrine of Redemption and Reprobation” appears at the top

Sorry for the delay in getting back to the blog. Arrived home late Sunday night from New York, and the day after you get home is always very busy. Anymore it takes you an hour just to delete all the spam in your mailbox…. Very briefly: the “blog wars” have devolved to the level of “oh yeah!” I shall allow

TGE blew a fuse and came unglued because I dared to contextualize my comments in providing a calm, reasoned response to a point raised by Alastair (below). Compare what I said with this kind of vitriolic ad-hominem:   I think, rather, that you’re just one more arrogant little Modern pretending to be better than everything and everyone who’s come before

I recognize that there is a fair amount of confusion on the part of some regarding the current controversy noted in the recent blog entries. It is my hope that over time that confusion can be cleared up, and in the process, some of God’s people will be blessed. Even with the gaseous cloud of vituperative sarcasm being belched out

I do not have any idea who “Alastair” is outside of his being a big fan of NT Wright, NPism (wait…another connection between AAPC and NPism?) and the author of a very poor “review” of J. Ligon Duncan’s article in response to NPism. But he has decided to take up the cause for TGE, and in the process has given

I just got an e-mail wherein someone recounted showing Angel’s recent work to Dave Hunt. His response, rather than explaining his continued misrepresentation of Spurgeon, was to allege that I was not able to get the “required” three endorsers for our debate book (which we will soon be listing here on the site). Hey Dave, Multnomah asked me ONCE for

Tim Enloe says he’s not going to respond, and then he responded. 🙂 In part: So go ahead, Dr. White. Blog some more about my “discontent with truth”. You’re only preaching to a very narrow choir. Which is, of course, exactly how your very narrow, very much Donatist-like theological tradition likes it. For those not familiar with the digs used