Category Archives: Apocalyptics

Engaging With Karl Marx’s Utopia and the Future: With Some Constructively Christian Eschatologizing

Posted on July 1, 2018 by

Marxism. Utopia. Realities shunned by Americans in the main; well at least until lately. I am reading Terry Eagleton’s Why Marx Was Right. Not because I want to become a Marxist, but because I want to understand Marx and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Karl Marx, Terry Eagleton, Theopolitical

A Note on the Christian Conception of the Relationship Between Church and State: A Christopolitical Dispatch

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

Theo-politics have been somewhat of an uninterrogated reality for me. As a conservative evangelical, growing up, I sloppily and haphazardly went the way of the Republican party as “the lesser of two-evils” in our representative government in North America. As … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Barth, Christology, Cornelius van der Kooi, Gijsbert van den Brink, Paul Metzger, Philip Ziegler, Providence, Theopolitical | 1 Comment

Living in the ‘Feeling’ and Reality of Freedom from Sin that God Desires For Us In Christ: From Gestation to Resurrection

Posted on May 18, 2018 by

I really struggled with a false sense of guilt and condemnation for particular sins from my past for years upon years. The enemy of my soul kept me living under ‘a yoke of bondage’ that Jesus said I ‘would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Christian Spirituality, Devotion, Doctrine Of Sin, Resurrection, Robert Dale Dawson, Salvation | 3 Comments

Using Apocalyptic Theology to ‘Re-fund’ the Doctrine of Total Depravity with the Hope of ‘De-funding’ the Pelagian-Impulse in the Christian Church

Posted on May 14, 2018 by

I don’t have any quotes from someone else in this post; I simply wanted to state something very briefly. Many of my posts are in critique of what I have called classical Calvinism, which is a designation I use to … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Evangelical Calvinism, Salvation, Sin, Soteriology

The Apostle Paul’s Apocalyptic Vision of the World Constituted by the Living Christ: In Dialogue with Bonhoeffer

Posted on May 1, 2018 by

Pauline, and thus canonical apocalyptic theology fits where I am at to a T. Philip Ziegler continues to unpack for us what such theology looks like in its various iterations scattered throughout the theological past and present. Here he is … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Philip Ziegler | 7 Comments

The Negation of Natural Law in the Apostle Paul’s Apocalyptic Theology

Posted on April 28, 2018 by

I wrote my Master’s thesis on a Pauline pericope, an exegetical analysis of I Corinthians 1.17-25. I was inspired to write a thesis of this nature, in the realm of New Testament studies, based upon Martin Luther’s theologia crucis (theology … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Philip Ziegler

The Death of Death in Jüngel’s Apocalyptic Frame

Posted on April 27, 2018 by

Death is a deplorable reality. We often attempt to avoid thinking about it until we can’t; until we or someone close to us is faced with it either through disease, sickness, or accident, or they die themselves. We have constructed … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Philip Ziegler

The Hope of Apocalyptic Theology: Engaging with Philip Ziegler’s Militant Grace

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

I just started reading Philip Ziegler’s new book Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology. Because of the influence of Karl Barth and Thomas Torrance (and others) on the development of Evangelical Calvinism, at least upon … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Philip Ziegler, Robert Dale Dawson | 6 Comments

Messianic War Against this World System: Gaining Perspective on the Presidential Election 2016 from the Book of Revelation

Posted on November 7, 2016 by

If you’re an American, and unless you live in a corner, something that cannot escape you at the moment is the intensity of the presidential election (as I write this only two days away). Like many of you, I have … Continue reading →

Posted in American Evangelicalism, Apocalyptics, Cultural Christianity, Culture, Eschatology, Ethics, Richard Bauckham, Theopolitical

Communism’s, Fascism’s and Other ‘isms” Problem of Scapegoating Considered through Thomas Torrance’s Revelation 6

Posted on October 28, 2016 by

We live in a time of great upheaval, a time unbeknownst to history before! Yes, the world has waned and travelled ever since the frustration of the original creation occurred (Genesis 3), but we live in an unprecedented time. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalyptics, Eschatology, Ethics, T. F. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance