D.G. Hart

Let's return to the story.

Here again is Dr. Thomas Kidd speaking at the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University in 2019, followed by Hillsdale College's Dr. Daryl Hart.

As a teenager, it's true, he abandoned his parents' Puritan beliefs.

But that same traditional faith kept him from getting too far away.

So he wondered, could he craft a Christianity that was centered on virtue rather than on traditional doctrine and avoid any alienating his parents at the same time.

More importantly, could he, over the long term, convince the evangelical figures in his life, his sister Jane and the revivalist George Whitefield, that all was well with his soul? And he would have more success convincing his sister than George Whitefield.

And we've been listening to Dr. Thomas Kidd and Dr. Daryl Hart tell the story of Benjamin Franklin's faith.

And clearly the Protestant background of his upbringing had a lot to do with Franklin's work ethic, his values, his obsession with ethics.

I think it's a good set.

D.G. Hart? Yeah.

Excited for that.

So it was a good essay.

by W. Robert Godfrey, Reforming the Church, Chad Vegas, Pastoring God's People, Chris Gordon, The Regulative Principle of Worship, Scott C. McDermond II, The Pactum Salutis in Hebrews 7, Steve Baugh, Covenant in Christ's Community by me, God's Two Powerful Words, which is about law and gospel by Mike Horton, sanctification, and the Reformed doctrine of it, Tony Phelps.

If you recover Reformed confessionalism, will anyone in the churches hear it? D.G.

Hart.

Oh, nice.

No one, you know, you guys obviously excluded from this, but I have known also, or I've seen guys who were clearly reading And that I didn't find a particularly effective way to communicate with God's people.

One of the things I've worried about, and I've had some pushback about this, Daryl Hart and I have discussed this a few times, and I think at least once in public, and he wasn't much impressed with his argument, but One of the things that they do in television news to maintain eye contact is to use a teleprompter.

And that allows the news readers, they say in the UK, just probably more accurate than what we say, newscaster, is to maintain eye contact with the people watching television.

which is a better form of communication than dropping the head, right? So that all people see is the top of your head while you're looking at stuff.

We're fighting for the permanent conservatism.

the the the permanent things and so contributions that and the book came from people like patrick denine who of course later goes on to make quite a splash with his his works on liberalism um and uh, Alan Carlson and Richard Gamble, Daryl Hart writes on theology.

Um, Rod Dreher has Rod Dreher.

I think Rod Dreher has an essay in there, um, was with us.

I don't know if what we said earlier has.

But, uh, three weeks ago, I had lunch with Darryl Hart.

Oh, yeah.

And it was at a place called the Wayside Inn, 1700s.