I Am Once Again Asking for an Honest Reckoning with Meredith Kline's Theology
A collection of tweet-storms, here preserved
I have lately been scaling back my activity on traditional social media, particularly X. That said, something that I think is worth public preservation (and something people often ask me for) are my series of threads on the theology of Meredith G. Kline. Kline is the de facto father of modern strands of republication, two kingdoms theology, and non-literal views of creation in the Presbyterian and Reformed world. While the Federal Vision and other controversies Kline reacted against have been heavily documented and criticized, Kline himself and the systems downstream from his thought receive comparatively little scrutiny and analysis. I would like to change that, as I think many of Kline’s ideas were problematic and represent a departure from classical Reformed theology.
I hope at some point to revise and expand these into a more permanent and usable format (articles or maybe a book), but for now I’m putting the most important of them here as PDFs (which preserve other linked posts and quotations that appear as images) so they can be accessed by anyone interested.
Kline’s denial of the OT as canon for the Christian church
Neonomianism, but for the Old Testament (quotes are from Kingdom Prologue, page numbers are included)
Comparing Kline (Kingdom Prologue again) to Bavinck
Kline’s rejection of the continuing validity of the Sabbath
Creation and Flamethrower Rhetoric
Kline on Trinity, Christology, and Pneumatology
The Image of God and Confessional Subscription
Klinean Sectarianism
My interview on Kline’s theology on Kingdom Polemics with Aldo Leon
Merit and Meredith
Various Reformed authors rejecting the idea of man meriting before God
Historical Revisionism
Redefining Grace
