Virginia Burrus offers a challenging feminist reading of the first of Athanasius’ Orations against the Arians in ‘Begotten, Not Made’: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture) . Her attention to Athanasius’ sexually charged rhetoric . . . . Continue Reading »
In the centuries since the Reformation, the phrase “priesthood of all believers” has become a Protestant slogan. For the Reformers, the idea was that every Christian, by virtue of baptism and faith, has the same status before God. Every member of the body of Christ serves . . . . Continue Reading »
INTRODUCTION Where the Spirit is, there is a temple of God. The Spirit dwells in each of us (1 Corinthians 6:19) and in the church as a whole (Ephesians 2:19-22). When the Spirit dwells in a home, the home becomes a house of the Lord. THE TEXT “And I, brethren, could not speak to . . . . Continue Reading »
INTRODUCTION Godly, effective parenting is parenting molded by the Spirit. Effective parents are Pentecostal parents. What does that mean? THE TEXT “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first volume of his Systematic Theology , Jenson argues that the Spirit is the guarantor of the church’s continuity over time: “it is God the Spirit who sustains the gospel’s and so the church’s self-identity through time,” but this means that “that . . . . Continue Reading »
Published in 1992, The Knight’s Move: The Relational Logic of the Spirit in Theology and Science by James Loder and W. Jim Neidhardt is not widely discussed or read, so far as I have seen. It deserves better. It suggests a new grammar and logic for the dialogue science and . . . . Continue Reading »
Advent is about the coming of the Son, but we shouldn’t forget that Advent is a thoroughly Trinitarian event. The Son doesn’t sneak away from heaven when the Father’s not looking; rather, out of His love for the world the Father sends the Son to reveal that love, and gives and . . . . Continue Reading »
Slusser ends his article on prosopological exegesis by noting that the Spirit “does not appear as an interlocutor within the texts we have examined by prosopological exegesis.” But that is because “the Spirit is the source of all the utterances of Scripture, even those in . . . . Continue Reading »
More from Mark McIntosh’s Mystical Theology . The Word, he notes, is the “expression of the Father’s ecstatic love which causes there to be an ‘other’ in God.” That same love not only leads to the begetting of the Son, but “leads to the eternal filial . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Geography of Good and Evil: Philosophical Investigations (Crosscurrents) , Dutch philosopher Andreas Kinneging argues that the conservative objection to the Enlightenment is not only intellectual but has to do with the will: “It is the view of conation that characterizes conservatism . . . . Continue Reading »
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