Note: Click here to read previous articles in this series. At the Council of Trent, the Roman Catholic Church drew a hard and fast line between their view and that of the Reformed Protestants. We’ve already explored the Council’s view; now we…
Scripture presents us with a rich and clear theology of human origins. God, our Creator, describes our beginning, fall, and the hope of redemption in Christ to us in his Word, showing us our identity and purpose as his image-bearers.…
Dante’s first book of his Divine Comedy takes its reader through an imaginative journey through Hell. Each girone is a testimony to the corruption of the human heart, and gives the poet a chance to denounce the crimes of the…
Note: This article was originally published on reformation21 in August of 2005. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2004) Carrying biblical overtones and set in the rural Iowa town of Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s second novel is the…
Note: Minor plot spoilers ahead. I picked up War and Peace for the first time ten years ago on a family vacation, read 200 of its 1300 pages, and then set it down for the decade. I didn’t have time…
Jesus Christ is the greatest theologian of all time; He read, interpreted, and applied the Scriptues in a masterful way, and taught others to do likewise. While we’ve already considered Jesus as a learner and teacher, it may help us at…
Having responded to Craig’s critique, it remains to respond to his two-fold proposal, which involves 1) rejecting eternal generation, and 2) embracing social trinitarianism. Each of these will be considered in turn. Responding to Craig’s First Proposal: Rejecting Eternal Generation…
In case you’ve not already noticed the massive problem of internet pornography, consider one small statistic: In 2019, the internet’s largest porn site (Pornhub) received 42 billion visits. That’s billion with a “b,” and all the trends suggest that this…
When it comes to gender and evangelicalism, it is abundantly clear that the barbarians are at the gates. Christendom’s simple commitment to the creation binary of male and female is being challenged by a new (old) “gender continuum” which, despite loud…
Editor’s Note: The following is the second entry in a new series on justification. Click here to read part one. In response to the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church called its 19th ecumenical council in…
