My current header picture is a rendition of Jesus’ wilderness’ temptation. It depicts, I think rather well, who the promised ‘Man of Sorrows’ would indeed be. It reminds me of the famed Messianic text of Isaiah 53: 53 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For […]
Ludwig Feuerbach, a German philosopher (if his name didn’t give it away), offered a critique of religion, particularly the Christian religion, that ought to have weight as we self-criticize our own understanding of God. Karl Barth took Feuerbach’s critique to heart as he saw in it a critique of natural theology. Here is a key […]
We all interpret. Whether it be while driving down the street, and stopping at a stop sign, or reading the various sections of a newspaper. We bring readerly expectations and conditions to our daily lives that inform how we arrive at our interpretive conclusions. But for some reason when it comes to biblical interpretation many […]
I have come to abhor, really, Christian online debate culture. It attempts to present itself as scholarly, objective, critical, and thus, noteworthy. Back probably five years ago I had a really heated engagement with the Rethinking Hell group. This group is attempting to revivify the annihilationist position vis-à-vis a doctrine of hell. I had an […]
In Barth’s Church Dogmatics III/1 we get into his doctrine of creation. As I was reading along, as is typical when reading Barth, I was struck with something he noted in regard to creation’s beginning; with reference to creation’s telos. Here he presents what sounds something like an argument from contingence, in regard to God’s […]
God is angry about sin, just to be clear. He judged sin, because there was actually a legal penalty associated with sin. But that isn’t the crux of what was judged. The crux was the ground, the source of sin; it has ontological depth. The human heart loves the darkness rather than the Light. It […]
Here is a copy of my Bibliography for the PhD dissertation. I’m not going to share the whole dissertation yet, and much of it is already available by viewing our two books on Evangelical Calvinism. I plan on writing a book after, and based on the contents of the dissertation in the future. But to […]
Clericalism ought to be anathema. Whether that be Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant, there is no High Priest save Jesus Christ. And yet, whether it be cult of personality, cult of Rome, cult of Alexandria, whatever iteration of the church we might be looking at, clericalism and its elevation of certain people as “authorities” in the […]
I created a Pdf file for chapter 1 of my PhD dissertation for anyone interested. Some of the formatting may be off a bit, but the content is there. Click here.
I am a “low church” evangelical. In other words, my ecclesial heritage has its chops in the congregational form of church government. I am also Free church, so not part of a state endorsed church (like we get with the Church of Scotland, Church of England et al.). But this doesn’t mean us “low-churchers” can’t […]
Athanasian Reformed 