David Mendoza

Educator, writer
MA Historical Theology - @wscal | 2022 ELP Alum - @ActonInstitute
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[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

@ReallyOldLife Also worth noting that all of the divines regarded the baptists as radical anabaptists which some Reformed writers conveniently overlook for pietist reasons.

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

This is a story that Baptists tell themselves to make themselves feel better about their dissonance with the ancient church.

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

@RScottClark I think you call that narrative a sort of pseudo history. Reminds me of the landmark movement of the 19th century, where every heresy was secretly baptist in church history.

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

If politics is war, when do the ends stop justifying the means?

@kvallier on Christian Nationalism.

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

The level of historical conspiracy some of these people are on is mind-boggling, but just remember a lot of very normal people believe just as stupid things (Dan Brown history of the church etc)

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

Which of the Reformers ever said this?

[Garrett Ham @garrettham_esq]

Protestantism's deepest assumption is that Christianity went wrong almost immediately and stayed wrong for 1,500 years. That's not a small claim. It's the entire premise of the movement.

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

This is false.

Signed,

Church History

[Jordan J. Ballor @JordanBallor]

"Culturally rootless, anonymous, bewildered, bored, badly prepared for higher studies, other-directed, prey to fad and foible, presently duped by almost any unscrupulous or self-deceived ideologue..."

--Russell Kirk in 1978 on the plight of higher education students

[Paramount Church @ParamountChurch]

Dispensationalism—by definition—is not Reformed. The Reformed tradition is confessional, covenantal, and rooted in a unified redemptive-historical hermeneutic, as expressed in the historic confessions (e.g., Westminster Standards, Three Forms of Unity, Anglican Formularies). Dispensationalism, by contrast, rests on a fundamentally different hermeneutical framework—most notably its strict Israel–church distinction and its rejection of covenant theology.

For that reason, the category “Reformed Dispensationalism” is not a meaningful theological synthesis but a contradiction in terms. One may appreciate certain doctrinal emphases (e.g., soteriology) within dispensational circles, but adopting the dispensational system places one outside the bounds of the Reformed confessional tradition.

Accordingly, The Master’s Seminary should not be described as Reformed. It neither subscribes to, teaches, nor confesses any of the historic Reformed standards that define the tradition.

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

I did #dothereading

This is not Calvin's Geneva or Winthop's Boston.

Now we love American pluralism?

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

@ReallyOldLife But Lutherans are off limits

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

@ReallyOldLife Explains a lot

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

Wesley was not a reformer, he lived in a different century. Zwingli taught the perpetual virginity of Mary. Calvin accepted it without a dogmatic position. It was pretty mainstream to hold this position among Lutherans and Reformed in the 16th and 17th centuries.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Wesley?

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

@agirlnamedMary @chris_calvi I think this more so highlights the issue of independent seminaries. Should seminaries be connected to a denomination is probably the real question, since men are allowed to graduate with the degree who don’t subscribe to the confessional standards.

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

Which Protestant confession?

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

The American founding was a Protestant founding. This is historically indisputable.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

The Pentagon invitation didn’t create a problem.
It exposed one. Full breakdown here: https://t.co/y9TkE5quMj

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

In a recent piece I wrote for @ActonInstitute I discuss one of the forerunner of the liberal tradition from Poland in the 16th century. Check it out here!

https://t.co/oxHafhWMSz

[Acton Institute @ActonInstitute]

Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki: Forerunner of Classical Liberalism via @DMendoza62 https://t.co/VR6t81ssDk

[David Mendoza @DMendoza62]

This may be true but not in the way she thinks. Both Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin were more captive to Enlightenment rationalism than confessional/liturgical Protestantism.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

@SouthpawPatrol Today’s evangelicals and the protestants of America’s founding have MUCH more in common than high church protestants today.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Dr. R. Scott Clark, Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Westminster Seminary been issuing warnings since 2008 on his website alone. That's nearly 20 years of "Hey folks, DW is not someone to listen to..." https://t.co/tSEQwAoLdo