Miles Hollingworth’s Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography is an odd intellectual biography. He includes many generous quotations from Augustine, but Hollingworth sprinkles in references to Frantz Fanon, Whitehead, Cecil Day Lewis, C.S. Lewis and many other modern writers along . . . . Continue Reading »
God’s authority empowers. Does ours? . . . . Continue Reading »
I offer a cheer for mystical theologians at the Trinity House site. . . . . Continue Reading »
Zephaniah 3’s description of God exalting over Israel as a husband over his bride has created some difficulties for interpreters. According to on Balserak ( Divinity Compromised: A Study of Divine Accommodation in the Thought of John Calvin ), Conrad Pellican and Bucer argue that since . . . . Continue Reading »
Has what Milbank calls the “liberal Protestant metanarrative” become the Protestant narrative? I raise and explore this question at Firstthings.com today. . . . . Continue Reading »
“There is no such thing as mechanism,” Edwards argues (quoted in Jenson, America’s Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards , 25). He means that there is no such thing as “mechanics” if that means “that whereby bodies act each upon other, purely and . . . . 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 »
Grotius ( Defensio Fidei Catholoicae: De Satisfactione Christi Adversus Faustum Socinum Senensem , 10.1-2) agrees with Socinus that Christ’s death is an “expiatory sacrifice . . . for sin.” He locates the difference in two places - the “target” of that expiation, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul prayed three times for God to remove the thorn from his flesh, then stopped. He realized that God wanted him weak. Weakness was essential to his apostolic ministry, an enfleshment of his proclamation of the crucified Son. Jesus tells a parable about an importunate widow who won’t take No . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths , Gerald McDermott notes that Edwards saw “provocation to jealousy” as a recurring pattern of history: “God, he discovered, uses jealousy as a redemptive tool to . . . . Continue Reading »
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