Doctrine of God

Cornelius Van Til, former professor of Christian apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA, professed to have stood on the shoulders of classic Reformed theological giants such as Abraham Kuyper, Benjamin B. Warfield, and Herman Bavinck.1 While not everyone is agreed on...

Cornelius Van Til, former professor of Christian apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA, professed to have stood on the shoulders of classic Reformed theological giants such as Abraham Kuyper, Benjamin B. Warfield, and Herman Bavinck.1 While not everyone is agreed on...

The late professor John Murray captured the essence of the incarnation when he said, "The Son of God became in time what He eternally was not. He did not cease to be what He eternally was, but He began to be what He was not."1 On a prima facie reading of this statement, one might be tempted to draw...

Greg Nichols. Lectures in Systematic Theology: t he Doctrine of God , CreateSpace, 2017. 680 p. With the release of Lectures in Systematic Theology: t he Doctrine of God , Greg Nichols has given us a feast that is marvelously pastoral and practical, deeply theological and consistently exegetical...

Greg Nichols. Lectures in Systematic Theology: t he Doctrine of God , CreateSpace, 2017. 680 p. With the release of Lectures in Systematic Theology: t he Doctrine of God , Greg Nichols has given us a feast that is marvelously pastoral and practical, deeply theological and consistently exegetical...

Introduction Hebrews 12.28 prescribes that Christian worship be grateful, awe-filled, and reverent. Hebrews 12.29 describes why Christian worship should be so: "our God is a consuming fire." In the preceding post, we paused to consider the significance of this imagery and concluded that it presents...

Introduction According to Nicholas Wolterstorff, worship is the "Godward acknowledgement of God's unsurpassable greatness . . . whose attitudinal stance toward God is awed, reverential, and grateful adoration." As we saw in our last post , this definition aptly summarizes the vision of worship set...

In his book, The God We Worship , Nicholas Wolterstorff defines worship as the "Godward acknowledgement of God's unsurpassable greatness . . . whose attitudinal stance toward God is awed, reverential, and grateful adoration." According to Wolterstorff, worship is "Godward" in its orientation. In...

K. Scott Oliphint, God with Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God (Crossway, 2011). 304 pp. $16.50. Professor Scott Oliphint's book, God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God , is a welcome addition to the Reformed, evangelical, and scholarly communities. The doctrine...