Peter J. Leithart

Robert Letham is among the best Reformed theologians writing today.  His books are deeply researched, up-to-date, his conclusions judicious and balanced; he knows the Reformed tradition, but is not narrow in either his reading or sympathies; he is resolutely Reformed, but makes bold in his . . . . Continue Reading »

Is the Son dependent on the Father?  Yes; the Father begets the Son, so the Son is Son only because the Father has begotten Him.  This is an eternal begetting, and so the Son always was.  But the Son’s always-existing depends on the Father. Is the Father dependent upon the Son? . . . . Continue Reading »

One: There is no absolute dualism except that of Creator and creature. Two: While “faith and reason” might be a reasonable discussion, debates on “reason v. revelation” rest on a category mistake. It would be an exaggeration to say that all theological wisdom . . . . Continue Reading »

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 »