Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
“There are sons of Abraham in one sense who are sons of the devil in another sense. There are sons of Sarah in one sense who are sons of Hagar in another sense. There are Christians in one sense who are not Christians in another sense. This is simply a biblical way of speaking, and one which Paul is at pains to both use and defend” (5).
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 915
“If I write that pigs can never fly, I will not take seriously any critique that maintains that I was saying that they can.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 913
Introduction: The issue for me is not that questions have been raised about Churchill and the Second World War. Anybody who has read anything at all about the tangled issues involved in that ...
“It is not a denial of SOLA FIDE to BELIEVE THE PROMISES.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 903
Letter to the Editor: You have mentioned in multiple places that reading biographies can be a very helpful thing to do if you are a first generation Christian and don’t have many ...
“We have to remember that regeneration, repentance, faith, justification, and sanctification are not five marbles bonking around in a sack. They are descriptions of what I do, or have done to me. I receive a new heart. I repent. I believe. I have the righteousness of Christ imputed to me. I walk in newness of life. The traditional ordo has limitations, and because of those limitations, it is easy to misrepresent.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 903
Introduction: As I never tire of saying, all of our current cultural difficulties and challenges are the result of a pitched battle over editorial control of the dictionary. Everything comes ...
“You said that we should not say things like ‘faith is obedience’ without qualification because people will grossly misunderstand. That is quite right, which is why in my post I qualified the heck out of my statements. I qualify my head off. They will carve on my tombstone, ‘He qualified a lot.’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 900
“You should see obedient faith as the only kind of faith that God gives. It is obedient because it is breathing, just like it was told to . . . I do not have any problem saying that ‘a man is justified by obedience [doing what God says to do, the way He says to do it, and what He says to do is believe on Jesus Christ completely] apart from works of the law [disobediently twisting God’s words into a rabbinical pretzel that allows me to feel quite pleased with myself]’ That is not contradictory at all.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 897
