Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: In 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe published The Fourth Turning, a study of the long cycles of American history. Since that time, William Strauss has passed away, but Neil Howe is ...
Introduction: We like to think of ourselves as biblical absolutists. Whatever the Bible teaches, we want to accept, straight up the middle, and with no backchat. We don't want to have any a priori ...
Introduction: Many times those who are listening to the debates over hyper-preterism concentrate too much on the debaters and what they are saying, when they really ought to take a look at the universe ...
In the older scovenant, there were two principal aspects of the prophetic word. The first one, and the one that everyone associates with prophecy, is the declaration of what was going to to come ...
Introduction: I am currently enjoying Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony. One of the ways I evaluate a really good book is by looking at all of the thoughts it churns up in my head, ...
I owe John Piper more than I can possibly express, and so it is most necessary for me to preface any disagreement with him in terms of highest respect. And that is what I do here, right at the top, lest anyone miss it. § This is an odd kind of disagreement, because I actually …
Introduction: The hard nugget of the choosing ego is the source of no end of trouble. In one sense, this is the “capital city” of every form of such pro-choice thinking, but in another stricter sense this kind of pandemonium can’t be the central city of anything—because a world of disintegration has no principle of …
Introduction: I appreciated the fact that Scott Aniol decided to review Mere Christendom , and I would like to pursue the conversation further if I might. If we keep this up, we might actually ...
Introduction: One of the best things my father ever taught me—and there were many to choose from—was the idea that the Christian should resolve in his heart never to have any problem passages ...
Introduction: It should be pretty plain from the things I have written on eschatology that I am what is called a partial preterist, and so I don't think I am giving away any secrets here. At ...
