Category Soteriology

The Patristic Calvinists versus the Medieval Calvinists: Engaging with Athanasius’s Theology of Theosis in Conversation with Barth’s and Torrance’s Themes

July 20, 2017 · by · in Athanasius, Barth, Evangelical Calvinism, Patristic Theology, Scottish Theology, Soteriology, T. F. Torrance · 3 Comments

I write about the same themes over and over again; someone even griped about that about me on FaceBook (I don’t think he thought I could see his gripe). But there’s a reason; I’ve been taken aback by the theology I have been confronted with in the writings of Karl Barth, Thomas Torrance, John Calvin, […]

‘The Eternally Fruitful Father’: How Creation and Salvation only Make Sense if God is Father of the Son in Athanasius’s Theology by Weinandy

July 13, 2017 · by · in Athanasius, Patristic Theology, Soteriology, Thomas Weinandy · Leave a comment

Thomas Torrance picks up on the Athanasian idea that God has always already been Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but that becoming Creator was something new for God. As we dig further into Athanasius’s theology itself, as told by Thomas Weinandy, what we see behind this is how this notion took place within Athanasius’s defense […]

I am an Athanasian: How the Homoousion Saved Christianity by Inimically Implicating the Reality of Salvation

July 8, 2017 · by · in Athanasius, Evangelical Calvinism, Patristic Theology, Salvation, Soteriology, T. F. Torrance, Thomas Weinandy · 2 Comments

Thomas Torrance is known for his deployment of the homoousion, the grammar developed primarily at the Council of Nicaea in 325ad. It is the attempt to articulate how it is that Jesus, the eternal Logos, and Son of God is eternally consubstantial and of the same ‘substance’ or better ‘being’ (ousia) with the Father [and […]

Some Thoughts on Salvation and Grace from T.F. Torrance

May 29, 2017 · by · in Salvation, Soteriology, T. F. Torrance

Those who are justified by grace, by faith in Christ, are the only ones who really know that they are lost sinners, apart from Christ, but those who have not received Christ’s forgiveness and the verdict it entails upon their humanity are the ones who regard themselves as able to justify themselves. Similarly, those who […]

Providing Some Theological Correction for John Calvin’s Doctrine of Assurance: From Evangelical Calvinism, Volume 2

May 12, 2017 · by · in Evangelical Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism Book, John Calvin, Salvation, Soteriology, Stephen Holmes · 1 Comment

I think I am going to start doing some posts that refer to our just released book Evangelical Calvinism: Volume 2: Dogmatics&Devotion; in other words, I will share particular quotes from particular chapters, and do what I do as a blogger: reflect and engage with that material. In this post I will briefly engage with […]

Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Theosis in Convergence with the Eastern Orthodox: Part Two

April 12, 2017 · by · in Adam Neder, Barth, Eastern Orthodox, Patristic Theology, Salvation, Soteriology, T. F. Torrance · 6 Comments

Picking up where we left off yesterday, in this post we will jump right into how Adam Neder places Barth in a positive relation to the doctrine of theosis; particularly within the Orthodox iteration of that. Just as a reminder let me repost what I ended the post with yesterday; it is another short quote […]

Karl Barth’s Reformed Doctrine of Theosis in Contradistinction to the Eastern Orthodox

April 11, 2017 · by · in Adam Neder, Barth, Eastern Orthodoxy, Patristic Theology, Salvation, Soteriology · 2 Comments

In light of Hank Hanegraaff’s Chrismation into Eastern Orthodoxy, I thought I would do a post on theosis; it just so happens that in my readings, apart from all of this, I just read through a study on Barth’s theology where Adam Neder dedicates a section to Karl Barth and theosis. So for the remainder […]

Christ as the first-fruits and first-born from the death of death: Reflecting Further Upon Sin and Its ‘Sensuous Origin’

March 15, 2017 · by · in Barth, Christology, Doctrine Of Sin, God's Holiness, Herman Bavinck, Incarnation, Salvation, Soteriology, T. F. Torrance · 1 Comment

As I continue to get into researching ‘sin’ I am doing so through reading, in part, stuff from Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck. I am reading a section he has from his Dogmatics, Vol.3, called The Origin of Sin; how fitting. I wanted to share a section from him which he entitles The Enigma of Sin’s […]

The Origin of Sin, Pelagius, and Roman Catholicism with Reference to Herman Bavinck

March 14, 2017 · by · in Doctrine Of Sin, Herman Bavinck, Salvation, Sin, Soteriology · 4 Comments

I am just starting to work towards putting together a proposal for PhD research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Free University of Amsterdam), where I hope to be accepted and work with a brilliant theologian there. At these early stages I have tentatively decided to research in the area of hamartiology, or in the area […]

An Evangelical Calvinist Critique of the Theology that Funds 5 Point Calvinism: A Critique of the Westminster Confession of Faith

March 8, 2017 · by · in Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Election, Evangelical Calvinism, Salvation, Soteriology, T. F. Torrance · 12 Comments

Discussion about Calvinism (and Arminianism) really hasn’t waned, even if my blog posts in that regard have. The original motivation for this blog, The Evangelical Calvinist, was to be a place where I offered critique of what I have called “classical Calvinism,” in line with the classical Theism it is derived from. I originally started […]

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