On the Meaning of "Post Tenebras Lux"

"Post Tenebras Lux" was the slogan of the Genevan Commonwealth during the time of the Reformation. It is latin for, "After darkness, light." In recent months, my previous blog, "Reformed Orthodoxy" was shut down due to the controversy it evoked. Interestingly enough, this was instigated by so-called "evangelicals." What is even more shocking is that most of the articles on my blog were doing nothing more than propagating historically Protestant and evangelical (in the truest sense of the word) doctrines. Nonetheless, many professing evangelicals were offended in my writings and so I was constrained to remove my entire blog for a season. Ironically, this event just confirmed my assessment of the evangelical community: a dark shroud has covered it and veiled it from beholding the light of the glorious gospel of grace. An almost total eclipse of the gospel has occurred in today's church as evangelicalism has reached its nadir with its obsessive fadism and casual theology. Though their opponents were different, the Reformers felt themselves to be in the same situation in the sixteenth century and hence the phrase, "Post Tenebras Lux." While Luther and Calvin resisted the apostasy of Rome on the one hand and the sensationalism of the Zwickau Prophets and Radical Reformers on the other, our enemies are a deeply entrenched moralism on the right and an easy believism on the left.

The purpose then in resurrecting this blog is single: to promote the gospel of grace most clearly seen in the doctrines of grace. I invite any of those who contributed to having my first blog removed to come forward and engage in a candid discussion of the doctrines defended on this site. While I have never been ashamed to identify myself with my writings, these scoundrels have preferred anonymonity to openness, obscurity to clarity, falsehood to honesty, sidling about in black crevices and corners while "never able to arrive at a knowledge of truth (2 Tim. 3:7)." Unfortunately, such is the nature of those who are warped in thinking. I seriously doubt there will be a single individual from the above mentioned category who will respond to my invitation for Scripture plainly says, "Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed (John 3:20)." Nevertheless, I will continue to proclaim the excellencies of the gospel through this avenue and pray to God that the title of this blog will become a reality for this darkened generation and that the blazing brightness of the gospel would truly begin to shine with all its splendor again. B.B. Warfield, the great Princeton theologian, summed it up best: "Evangelicalism stands or falls on the doctrines of grace." Soli deo gloria!