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 ...
The Challenge of Puritan Yeast
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, ...
“My Kingdom is Not of This World,” Which Is Why We Were Instructed to Pray for it to Come
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. ยง This is an odd kind of disagreement, because I actually …
Inchoate Damnation and the Revolt of the Women
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 canโt be the central city of anythingโbecause a world of disintegration has no principle of …
Public Theology Comes Out Your Fingertips Also
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 ...
No Problem Passages
Introduction: One of the best things my father ever taught meโand there were many to choose fromโwas the idea that the Christian should resolve in his heart never to have any problem passages ...
Theological Jenga & Full Preterism
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 ...
The Great Gospel-Centered Crack-Up
Introduction: One of the besetting sins of contemporary evangelicals is that our intellectual and theological lives are cluttered. As Francis Schaeffer once summarized the problem, we tend to think ...
The Substance of Things Hoped For
These are my notes for my talk at the Bahnsen 2022 conference. Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me. Introduction: Postmillennial eschatology is not just that branch of theology that ...
11 Reasons Why We Should Not Consider Thomism to be the Theological Equivalent of the Butterfly’s Boots
"However far I went I found only dingy lodging houses, small tobacconists, boardings from which posters hung in rags, windowless warehouses, goods stations without trains, and bookshops of the ...