What did Paul Mean by “Unashamed”?
In Romans 1:16, Paul says, “I am not ashamed of the gospel.” Did he mainly mean that he wasn’t embarrassed? Is this Greco-Roman rhetoric or Hebraic hope?
Continue reading →God’s Names in Job: Does God Suffer With Us?
The book of Job has regularly posed a problem for Christians in nearly every generation because it presents, quite starkly, the suffering of a “blameless” man for no reason ever explained to him, by a God who seems far more interested in winning a bet with Satan and browbeating Job with odes to His own […]
Continue reading →Rebalancing Calvin’s Equation of Faith and Knowledge
Calvin emphasized religious knowledge as the foundation of the Reformation of the church. But have his theological heirs misunderstood his assumptions?
Continue reading →Handling the Word: Bibliolatry in Islam and Reformed Christianity
What’s the difference between the Islamic and historic Christian doctrines of revelation? Is the Islamic doctrine properly called bibliolatry? If so, what does that say about the Reformed doctrine of the Bible that increasingly looks like the Islamic doctrine of the Qur’an?
Continue reading →Martin Luther, Freedom of Conscience, and The Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will was considered even by Luther himself to be one of his greatest works of theology, as it established the biblical and logical basis for his most treasured doctrine—justification by faith alone, and, contributing to its continued popularity, it does so with all of Luther’s characteristic, and entertaining, thunder […]
Continue reading →“The Unattended Things”: Road Trip 2017
In part one of my summer 2017 road trip retrospective, I explore the unforeseen value of paying attention to generally unattended things.
Continue reading →Universal Expiation, Definite Atonement: Did Jesus Die for the Sins of All People?
Many Bible texts indicate that Jesus died for all people. Should this impact our doctrine of atonement? And if Jesus died for all, why are all not saved?
Continue reading →Ode to the Mothers in their Sisyphean Joy
Forgive me, please. I’m about to do what a man is not likely now or ever to be encouraged by prudence to do: I’m going to speak for women. Not all women, mind you. But women nonetheless, which is perilous enough. Though the women in my life are in fact considerable in number and unparalleled […]
Continue reading →Misreadable: Why Does God Conceal Himself and the Truth?
Why is it so easy to get God wrong? Why do so many seemingly earnest people misread His creation and His word? Does God want it this way?
Continue reading →Eternity for the Time Being
Meditations on eternity, both eternity past and eternity future, through the lens of Jesus the God-man, the contact point of time and eternity.
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