Category Theology Of Glory

Karl Barth’s Nein to Serene Jones’ Rejection of the Physical Resurrection of Jesus Christ

April 20, 2019 · by · in Barth, Theology Of Glory · 1 Comment

If you aren’t on Theological Twitter (good for you!) you might have missed the tweet storms currently underway in regard to Serene Jones’ and the interview she undertook with the New York Times. If you don’t know, Serene Jones is the current President of Union Theological Seminary, in New York; and formerly a professor of […]

Bone and Flesh of the Christ: An Imaginary Grounded in the Bloody Cross for Knowledge of God

March 7, 2019 · by · in Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Faith, Christology, Classical Theism, Theological Epistemology, Theological Ontology, Theology Of Glory, Theology Of Retrieval, Theology Of The Cross · 4 Comments

Something I just tweeted and want to expand upon: “If Heaven and the coming eschaton are pervaded by the face of Christ, all the way through, then what use do I have for discursive and abstract theologies that only attempt to work their way up to Him from other places. Why not start and end […]

Resourcing Martin Luther: A Gospel for the Common Person, not the Metaphysicians

January 18, 2018 · by · in Martin Luther, Metaphysics, Theology Of Glory, Theology Of Retrieval, Theology Of The Cross · 3 Comments

I am about a third of the way through Mark Mattes’ new book Martin Luther’s Theology of Beauty, and it is exquisite. His chapter on Luther and philosophy is insightful, and reinforces notions I’d already been exposed to (years ago) in regard to the way Luther saw philosophy’s role in the theological task—as a handmaiden, […]

Responding to Paul Tripp’s Sweeping Generalization against Christian Theologians and Academics: The Theology of the Cross as Antidote

October 5, 2017 · by · in American Evangelicalism, Martin Luther, Theology Of Glory, Theology Of The Cross

[Qualification: My response in this post has more to do with the sentiment that the Tripp quote ostensibly communicates; it is a sentiment that I know many of us have experienced in our own ecclesial settings. The quote from Tripp is contextless for me, so maybe he qualifies or develops it in such a way […]

Christian Aristotelianism: Understanding the Reformed and evangelical Intellectual and Theological History

February 15, 2017 · by · in Aristotle, Classical Theism, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Reformed Theology, Richard Muller, Theology Of Glory, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism · 1 Comment

I originally wrote this post on September 5th, 2010, I thought I’d share it again. It’s relevance hasn’t gone away in these last seven years, and remains unchanged for many folks either just cutting their teeth on Reformed theology, and/or for those who are flamingly Reformed and have been for years. Aristotle’s place in the […]

The ‘Young Marburg’ Barth against Charles Ryrie, Thomas Aquinas, and the Cosmological Argument for God’s Existence

October 31, 2016 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogy of Being, Analytic Theology, Analytical Theology, Barth, Book Reviews, Charles Ryrie, Karl Barth, Kenneth Oakes, Metaphysics, Theology Of Glory, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism · 2 Comments

The first time I attended Bible College was just after I graduated high school in 1992; I attended a small Conservative Baptist Bible College in Phoenix, Arizona, at that time called Southwestern College (it is now called Arizona Christian University). I was a bible and theology major, as such I had an introduction to Systematic […]

Barth on Luther’s Theology of the Cross: The Vulnerability of Faith before God

October 3, 2016 · by · in Barth, Martin Luther, Theology Of Glory, Theology Of The Cross, Theology of the Cross · 1 Comment

Here is Karl Barth reflecting on Martin Luther’s theologia crucis (theology of the cross). Notice towards the end how Barth speaks of the vulnerability of faith before God. This is so key, vulnerability and faith aren’t things often linked together, per se. But I think they go together well; faith denotes trust, and trust denotes […]

Knowing God: Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Thomas Torrance. Theologia Crucis against Analogia Entis

October 11, 2015 · by · in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Barth, Epistemology, Karl Barth, Richard Muller, T. F. Torrance, Theology Of Glory, Theology Of The Cross, Theology of the Cross, Theory of Revelation, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism · 10 Comments

Knowing God, it is what we as Christians all desire; we want to not only know Him, but know that we have a more sure way of knowing God. In the history of the church and ideas there have been multiple ways to try and tackle this. There have been mystical (Platonic) types of attempts […]

Doing Genuine Christian Theology: The Praise of God or the Praise of Man

January 17, 2015 · by · in Theology Of Glory, Theology Of The Cross · 4 Comments

Just a quick reflection on theology as a discipline. Theology as a discipline is strange thing, in a way. It is immersed in two worlds;  1) the world of the confessing Church of Jesus Christ (a doxological world), and 2) the world of the unconfessing academy that seeks to make something that might look foolish […]

Easter Before Good Friday: A Reflection on ‘The Creed’ by Karl Barth and Me

March 23, 2014 · by · in Barth, Karl Barth, Theology Of Glory, Theology of the Cross · 2 Comments

Was Crucified, Dead, And Buried, He Descended Into Hell How do you think of God revealed in Jesus? Do you primarily think of him through the lens of the cross? Then you might be a Western Christian (which most of us are). Or maybe you think of him primarily in and through the lens of […]

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