In his exhortation on the joy of the gospel , Francis I lays out several principles that should guide evangelization. The first is “Time is greater than space.” He explains, “A constant tension exists between fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete . . . . Continue Reading »
In an address on the tercentenary of the Augsburg Confession, Hegel celebrated the freedom that the Lutheran Reformation brought, a freedom that healed the schism that divided the soul and the split that harmed the commonwealth ( Political Writings , 191). To highlight this liberation, he . . . . Continue Reading »
Francis’s exhortation has gotten attention from the press mainly because of its economic observations. But the starting point for those observations is evangelical: “To whom should she go first? When we read the Gospel we find a clear indication: not so much our friends and wealthy . . . . Continue Reading »
Francis I offers this helpful summary of the task of theologians and the role of “secular” scholarship in the church: The “task of exegetes and theologians to help ‘the judgment of the Church to mature.’ The other sciences also help to accomplish this, each in its own . . . . Continue Reading »
God, Francis I writes in Evangelii Gaudium , “is for ever young and a constant source of newness.” And this means that the church needs to be prepare for continual refreshment and renewal: “With this newness he is always able to renew our lives and our communities, and even if the . . . . Continue Reading »
A remarkable statement from Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics on the necessary, incessant development of doctrine: “We need to overcome our astonishment over the fact that the New Testament nowhere explicitly mentions infant baptism . . . .The validity of infant baptism does not lapse on . . . . Continue Reading »
In a discussion of theological paradox , John Frame comments on and approves a formula regularly used by Cornelius Van Til, “not in spite of, but because of.” Frame sees it as a summons to creative rethinking of a lot of classic “paradoxes”: “the formula ‘not in . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent online piece from the Atlantic , Tara Isabella Burton makes a case for theology as a university discipline, pointing out along the way the inherently interdisciplinary nature of theology: “As Oxford’s Dr. William Wood, a University Lecturer in Philosophical Theology and my . . . . Continue Reading »
God created and organizes time, and as His image we do the same. Some notes toward a biblical theology of time at the Trinity House site. . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Edward Moore’s A Sacred Kingdom: Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship, 300-850 is a detailed, deeply researched study of the formation of the political theology of the Frankish Kingdom from the collapse of Rome through the fragmentation of the Carolingian dynasty. Moore traces . . . . Continue Reading »
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