Theology That Bites Back
In order for us to say that God is love, we must be able to deny, in the same breath, that God is solitary, or alone, or isolated. To be love itself, God must contain within Himself the subject and the object and the verb. He must be the Lover, and He must be the …
It has been drawn to my attention that some folks have wondered whether or not I was aiming at David Bahnsen (and friends) with this recent paragraph: “Professing Christians who are nervous about Christian nationalism will see their options begin to narrow. They cannot refute these observations, or at least to date have shown no …
So let us start at the base of the stairs, and go up them one at a time. Every society, of necessity, must have a final locus of authority. That authority must either be contingent and within the system, or absolute and outside the system. If there is no absolute authority outside the system, then …
Introduction: You know, this is one of our best therapy sessions ever. I never knew half of this stuff . . . A few years back, Joe Rigney made what might be called "an empathy splash" when he ...
The God of all glory is the God of triune glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which is why the image and glory of God sing with our heads back in order to render reflected glory where it is due, and the result is a fusion of music and sacrifice. The Father is the Speaker …
Introduction: In a recent edition of Themelios (48.3), my fellow CREC minister Jeremy Sexton offered his critique of postmillennialism. Now to be blunt . . . he did far more than offer a critique. ...
Before the creative Word was spoken, no thing was. Before the void was filled, or even existed to be filled, there was God the Speaker, God the Spoken, and God the Interpreter, and they had not yet brought the heavens and earth into being. But when they did, the spheres and stars and waters and …
Introduction: I think it is safe to say that many Christians have extricated themselves from the materialistic account of the cosmos. This is great, so far as it goes, but we have now entered an era ...
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Yeats, The Second Coming Introduction: In order ...
Bumped to the top so that people can follow the comments/answers. I had made a comment on Twitter that no one had registered their concerns here. The problem with that comment is that I had forgotten to turn the comments on. The fault was entirely mine, but there was no guile in it—just incompetence. I …
