Discussing the “Antiochene” orientation of Western Christology ( America’s Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards ), Jenson remarks: “Western thinking perhaps moved more simple-mindedly in the Antiochene track than had the Antiochenes themselves. Thus the brilliant . . . . Continue Reading »
Jenson offers a typically witty and condensed assessment of “natural theology” and its relation to the gospel in his America’s Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards . The confrontation arises from the basic missionary character of the Christian church. Because it bears . . . . Continue Reading »
In a 2007 lecture , Margaret Jacob describes the series of dominoes whose toppling helped produce the European Enlightenment. The roles of England, France, and the Netherlands are crucial. The Netherlands provided the seedbed because of lax censorship restrictions on any book not in Dutch and its . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Manuel shows that Euhemerism remains a very live option as an explanation of the origins of religions into the eighteenth century ( The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods , ch. III). Isaac Newton took a primarily Euhemerist approach in his Chronology , and Isaac Newton was no idiot. . . . . Continue Reading »
In a chapter on Hamann in The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods , Frank Manuel is careful to distinguish Hamann’s views from “the commonplace tradition which explained the wide usage of myths, fables, parables, allegories by the wise rational legislators of antiquity as a . . . . Continue Reading »
“The mere fact that in changing cultural and religious settings we find it hard to understand or communicate key biblical teachings is not,” writes Veli-Matti Karkkainen in Christ and Reconciliation: A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, vol. 1 (324), “a . . . . Continue Reading »
In the aforementioned article in JETS , Blocher notes that the New Testament treats Levitical sacrifices as types of Christ’s redemption, but adds that there is also a discontinuity: The intimate and essential bond between Christ’s death and his resurrection does not receive a clear . . . . Continue Reading »
In a 2004 article in JETS, Henri Blocher examines how recent philosophers have attempted to use metaphor to break through the “flatism” of Positivism. He agrees that Positivism must be opposed, but argues that it is best opposed on the grounds of a biblical ontology: “Under the . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Horne examines the biblical definition of “gluttony” at the Trinity House site this morning. . . . . Continue Reading »
Rudisill ( The doctrine of the atonement in Jonathan Edwards and his successors , 114-5) says that for Edwards “Christ’s work per se does not affect man. In the final analysis, it does not deal with man’s predicament. President Edwards’ doctrine of the Atonement is a . . . . Continue Reading »
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