A Carl Trueman teaser Paul Grimmond

Paul Grimmond

Just thought I'd kick off July with a little teaser. In God's kindness, Carl Trueman is coming out to Australia in August to speak at various events around the traps (including the Confess or Die conference). In preparation for his visit, Carl has agreed to do some guest blogging for us here at The Sola Panel, so be on the look out for three posts from him in the coming month.

For those who don't know him, Carl is the departmental chair of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and the former editor of Themelios. He blogs regularly at Ref 21.

But more interestingly, here is a recent self-description:

I am the hapless lackey of right-wing Christian America ... a communist apologist for Islamic terrorism, a fundamentalist, a liar, a liberal (political and theological), an inveterate street fighter, a spineless girlyman, and a symptom of the crisis in American higher education ... (Read the full quote).

We're looking forward to hearing from him, and we hope you are too.

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Matt Busby Andrews02/07/2009 03:49 AM

I read in one of Carl’s blogs that he hates contemporary christian music so comprehensively, he now recommends that we only sing psalms in church. How’s that going to work with the church planting movement?

That’s a nice catch there, Paul. Looking forward to his posts…

“I am the hapless lackey of right-wing Christian America, the ruthless dismantler of everything good and virtuous at Westminster Theological Seminary (both the right and the left have advocated that one), a communist apologist for Islamic terrorism, a fundamentalist, a liar, a liberal (political and theological), an inveterate street fighter, a spineless girlyman, and a symptom of the crisis in American higher education whose very existence explains why so many young people leave college ill-equipped to deal with real life. I have also been told to go to hell, threatened with dismemberment, and told my career was going to be torched in an inferno of revelations about my professional and private activities.  An interesting, if somewhat eclectic and incoherent, list of threats, high crimes and misdemeanors if ever there was one.  Up to this point, (at least as far as I am aware), nobody has yet blamed me for the worldwide economic downturn, Swine Flu, or the popularity of the Jonas Brothers; but, hey, it is surely only a matter of time before the true extent of my evil is outed on the net.”

I like him already! grin

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