Americans are much less sure of the existence of Hell than of Heaven. Hopefully this is because they have had such glimpses of the Divine that Hell seem fuzzy to them. There seems, however, some chance that it is because they have become too nice to believe anyone is in Hell.In chatting with regular . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, I posted a summary of an article by James Torrance that makes disparaging comments about Jonathan Edwards. Joe Rigney of Bethlehem College and Seminary writes in defense of Edwards. The remainder of this post is from Rigney. “it’s Edwards view of the Trinity and . . . . Continue Reading »
What is the so-called “Federal Vision” controversy about? I’ve argued in the past that it is an effort to refine various areas of Reformed theology (anthropology, soteriology, etc) in the light of Trinitarian theology. I have also suggested regularly that the FV is an . . . . Continue Reading »
This great twentieth-century scholar loved Plato, wrote Christian apologetics, and was a first-rate scholar with secular publications still in print. Sadly, A. E. Taylor was not C. S. Lewis, lived about the same time, and is little read by anyone but specialists while Lewis continues to drive whole . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s confusing yet strangely gratifying all at the same time. We live in a culture that is moving further and further from the exclusive claims of Christianity yet almost equally—and inconsistently—holds select passages in the Bible in high regard. They hold forth as though they . . . . Continue Reading »
A few months ago, I began writing a piece on the teachings of Beth Moore. The fine writers at CT were working on a similar project which became a recent cover story and companion article. There is much to be said about Beth’s influence in the Church that I believe male and female leaders need . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism (George L. Mosse Series) , Jan Assmann argues that justice is a “generator of history,” that is, it is the concept/action that makes history a field of interaction between God and man. In the Bible, in contrast to . . . . Continue Reading »
Gregory Nazianzen ( Oration 28,9) says that negative theology is only a starting point, beyond which one must go to state what God is: ”he who is eagerly pursuing the nature of the Self-existent will not stop at saying what He is not , but must go on beyond what He . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Henry wrote:The code of Fundamentalism emphasizes external adherence to a few arbitrary customs and external abstinence from a few arbitrarily prohibited things. When a Fundamentalist is pressed with this analysis, he will, of course deny it. He, too, is vitally concerned with inner moral . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life (Great Theologians Series) , Nicholas Healy challenges Jean-Pierre Torrell’s claim that the Summa provides the only possible organization for theology. He challenges Torrell in the name of Thomas: “On my view, the ST has a . . . . Continue Reading »
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