In one of his posthumously published series of lectures ( Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ ), TF Torrance writes of the incarnation as God coming from behind the veil of the law. The law is a barrier, a form of bondage, since it is “a form of self-imprisonment because it is the result . . . . Continue Reading »
Did Christ have a human soul? Athanasius asks in his two treatises against Apollinaris. He answers Yes, of course, but the way he answers is intriguing. One argument focuses on the death of Jesus: The body of Jesus died, as everyone acknowledges; but death is separation of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the New Atlantis site, Ivan Kenneally gives a brief and damning summary of the contents of emails hacked from University of East Anglia’s Climactic Research Unit (CRU). He writes, “Perhaps the most damning e-mails concern CRU deputy director . . . . Continue Reading »
When I pick up a book on the OT and worship, I always look for Jeff Meyers’ The Lord’s Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship in the bibliography. Sadly, I’m usually disappointed. I was disappointed by Thomas Pierce’s recent Enthroned on Our Praise: An Old . . . . Continue Reading »
MC Steenberg’s Of God and Man: Theology As Anthropology from Irenaeus to Athanasius concludes with the claim that for Irenaeus, Cyril, Tertullian, and Athanasius, “it is in and through the human, the anthropos in which the eternal Son is known, that God is disclosed to the creature, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Sin is an ethical rather than a metaphysical problem - so says van Til, repeatedly. I know what he means: Creation is good; saved human beings are fulfilled human beings, not something other kind of being. Yet, there are questions. 1) What if we adopt a more relational metaphysics. Does . . . . Continue Reading »
Some thoughts on temperance inspired by a student paper on the Faerie Queene , Book 2. The student cited an article linking Guyon’s story with the developing “modern” view of time as a commodity. With the new view of time, temperance began to be linked with . . . . Continue Reading »
INTRODUCTION During Advent, Pastor Sumpter and I will be alternating preaching, and we will be preaching on the lectionary, that is, the passages that make up our Scripture readings for Advent. All these passages are about the Lord’s “coming,” and thus all shed light on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew 26:58: Peter also was following Him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and entered in and sat down with the officers to see the outcome. We’ve concentrated in the sermon this morning on Jesus’ trial itself, but as Matthew tells the story of the trial, it is . . . . Continue Reading »
We live in an age when many of our relationships are mediated through a screen. We email family members in the next room, and often know more about the lives of Facebook friends than we do about the people who live next door or who sit next to us at church. This is not an attack on . . . . Continue Reading »
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