I have the following passage in my sidebar here at the blog, it communicates an important perspective that we would all do well to keep before us each and every day; especially those of us who get so caught up in the nitty-gritty of theological mechanics. Barth quotes early Lutheran theologian, Martin Chemnitz: We must […]
The Nicenes, those who affirmed the triune reality of the living God, and articulated it using grammar that we today take for granted as the orthodox coin, are elevated, as they ought to be, by those of us who, indeed, affirm the orthodox reality of who God is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These […]
Matthias Grebe offers a good word on the potential problem of being hyper-confessional/conciliar (my phraseology), to the point that said confessions and conciliar determinations come to reduce and coopt the possibility for thinking with greater depth and criticality in regard to the implications of Scripture’s attestation to its depth reality in Jesus Christ and the […]
Either something is, or it isn’t. Surely, there are nuances on a continuum, and we should all be aware of that as we approach any system or maybe better, organism of thought. Nonetheless, in the end, either a framework of thought is sound and corresponds to reality or it doesn’t. This seems like a good […]
Barth’s theology is really just a reiteration of patristic and Athanasian theology, but in modern dress. Genuinely Christian theology is necessarily eschatological, because its subject is God’s Eschatos for the world, who is Jesus Christ. If the world was created so that Christ might be born, this entails that the world’s history was given its […]
When in the realm of Barth studies, you will often hear of ‘Barth’s actualism.’ But what in fact is actualism in Barth’s theology? And might it, once understood, offer the way out of the classical modes of thought in regard to God’s relation to the world through the decretum absolutum (‘absolute decree’)? In other words, […]
Earlier this morning I listened to Credo Magazine’s podcast in which Matthew Barrett interviews Louis Markos, the author of From Plato to Christ, among other books. You can listen to that podcast here. They were discussing, of course, the role and impact that Plato had, and continues to have on the development of Christian theology. […]
The Christian world needs a revival! It needs to come to a genuine knowledge of God. Not a speculative knowledge, as those retrievers of Aquinas would have it; but a concrete known knowledge of God gifted to us in God’s Self-exegesis in Jesus Christ. When God becomes a predicate of a notional ‘godness’ that ‘we’ […]
Samuel Adams in his book The Reality of God and Historical Method: Apocalyptic Theology in Conversation with N. T. Wright offers many important insights in regard to ‘apocalyptic theology’ in contradistinction to NT Wright’s ‘worldview’ or what I would call ‘naturalist’ approach to biblical studies and theological reflection. One aspect I want to highlight from […]
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience […]
Athanasian Reformed 