Heaven Is a Concert Hall

by Peter J. Leithart

The Spirit won’t stop until all creation is heavenized, until all things unite in praise. Continue Reading »

9 Jul 2021 0

Economic and Immanent Trinity

by Hans Boersma

Nicodemus learns two lessons—the two things that make up the content of Christian catechesis: earthly things and heavenly things. Continue Reading »

31 May 2021 0

A Birthday Card to Balthasar

by Peter J. Leithart

A Trinitarian ontology of love implies an epistemology of love, for reality is known only to lovers. Continue Reading »

23 Apr 2021 0

Mystery of the Trinity

by Peter J. Leithart

To deepen our knowledge of anything, to see things in three dimensions, we need to supplement our limited perspective with the perspectives of others. Continue Reading »

22 Oct 2020 0

The Triune Tangle

by Peter J. Leithart

The mystery of the Trinity “by its darkness enlightens all things.” Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2019 0

Evangelizing Metaphysics

by Peter J. Leithart

The concepts and formulations of Trinitarian theology have been—and can continue to be—refined. Continue Reading »

25 Aug 2017 0

What the Church Does Not Believe

by Russell E. Saltzman

This Lent has me digging through the Apostle’s Creed. Viewed in a certain direction, it not only says what we believe; it lets us in on what we do not believe. The first article of the Creed, my last column, says Christians believe in one God and this one God is the Father who made both heaven and . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Mar 2016 0

Authority, Given and Received

by Peter J. Leithart

When Pontius Pilate warns Jesus that he has authority over life and death, Jesus reminds him, “you would have no authority over me, unless it had been given from above” (John 19:10–11). At the end of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus assures his disciples that “all authority has been given to me in . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Jan 2016 0

The Mystery of Eternal Love

by Timothy George

One of the most common charges leveled against Christians in the early church was that they were atheists. They did not worship the gods of Rome and Greece, nor did they follow the mystery religions of the East. Indeed, they claimed to worship the one true God of Israel, the Creator of all that is, . . . . Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2015 0

The Neglected God

by Timothy George

Some years ago Nils A. Dahl wrote that God may be the “neglected factor in New Testament theology.” Destructive biblical criticism, exemplified for years in the work of the so-called Jesus Seminar, eviscerates the gospel narratives of all theological power and leaves us, at best, with a Jesus made in our own image—political agitator, cynic sage, new age guru, etc. The words of weeping Mary in John 20:13 are appropriate: “They have taken my Lord away, . . . and I don’t know where they have put him.” But the Jesus of the Gospels cannot be confined to the straitjacket of such pseudo-scholarly speculation. He bursts through those Scriptures today just as he rose bodily from the grave that first Easter morning. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2015 0