John D. Chitty
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Location | Texas |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | In my early years as an independent, fundamental Baptist (IFB), Christian scholarship was often maligned, but my job at a Christian bookstore broadened my horizons. It was during these formative years that I was introduced to Reformed theology by Michael Horton (on a rare, early appearance on TBN, no less–and that’s no joke!). As a fundamentalist, I wrestled with the instinct to learn all I could, being reminded by my fundamentalist shepherds of the dangers of “missing heaven by 18 inches”, the distance between the head and the heart. I was constantly exhorted to pursue “heart knowledge” of the things of God, even at the expense of my “head knowledge” of the same. In time I came to realize that were my biography were a comic book, it would be called, “The Misadventures of Captain Headknowledge”–the kind of hero who seeks the answers no one else dares or cares to seek, attempting to rescue unappreciative souls imperiled by villainous theology. Unlike many Reformed bloggers, I’m neither a scholar, nor the son of a scholar, but a mere Reformed theology geek looking to learn all he can, can all he learns, and give the can away. |