New Atheism
In 2004, Alister McGrath published The Twilight of Atheism, where he contended that ‘the sun has begun to set’ on an empire of the mind: ‘Atheism’, a phenomenon which ‘seems to have lost so much of its potency in recent…
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Persuasion: Beyond the “Burp Effect”
I am not at all sure exactly when or why the topic of persuasion began to preoccupy my thoughts. I am sure that there must be a number of influences in my past that, cumulatively though somewhat subconsciously, were catalysts…
Persuasion: Beyond the “Burp Effect”
I am not at all sure exactly when or why the topic of persuasion began to preoccupy my thoughts. I am sure that there must be a number of influences in my past that, cumulatively though somewhat subconsciously, were catalysts…
Reviewing Ligonier’s Christology Statement
Ligonier Ministries have produced a Creed, as well as Affirmations and Denials, with a focus on Christology – a “Christology Statement”. While I wonder what possible ecclesiastical authority a Creed can have when offered by a parachurch organization, I think…
The High Priest and the New Temple: Transfigured Hermeneutics 5
This is the fifth of a multipart discussion of the importance of the event of the Transfiguration for Christian theology and biblical reflection. I have argued for illuminating parallels between the events of Sinai and that of the Transfiguration. My…
Ressourcement: Love and Its cost in The Letter to Diognetus
Ressourcement: retrieving our past for present faithfulness, part 2 Love and Its cost in The Letter to Diognetus The Apostle Paul’s descriptions of the social fabric of the pagan world of his day are not pleasant. “Living in malice and…
Ressourcement: retrieving our past for present faithfulness: Irenaeus of Lyons
— and his answer to the hyper-spirituality of Gnosticism Michael A G Haykin Contrary to much of modern thinking, there is truth and there is error. And just as it is vital to find the one–without truth there can be…
Is There a Sweet Spot?
Sometimes I find myself intellectually frustrated as both a reader and a writer. I have read a good number of academic books that I highly recommend to people, knowing they will never be cracked open. For example, Dr. Gregory Beale’s…
Is Family-Integrated Worship the Historical Norm?
Advocates of “family-integrated worship” — a fancy term for keeping kids of every age in church services rather than shuffling them off to the nursery/crèche, Sunday School (UK), or Children’s Church (US) — generally claim their practice as the historical…