Last week I posted a piece suggesting three principles by which the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) may respond to the call to confess racist tendencies in the years leading up to its founding. One of these principles was to…
This is the final post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and 10 and 11). Conclusion There may be ways to construe the supposed pre-existent humanity of Christ without transgressing…
I’m off to South Africa to give a series of lectures in Cape Town at a new seminary that has been started in Hout Bay. This “township” (Imizamo Yethu) is literally next door to our new campus, which is an…
This is the fourth part of a multipart discussion of the importance of the event of the Transfiguration for Christian theology and biblical reflection. In my first three posts, I argued for the significance accorded to the Transfiguration by its…
John H. Walton. The Lost World of Adam and Eve. Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. 253pp. $17.00 In 2009, John Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, challenged the evangelical world with the publication of his The Lost World…
John H. Walton. The Lost World of Adam and Eve. Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. 253pp. $17.00 In 2009, John Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, challenged the evangelical world with the publication of his The Lost World…
This is the eleventh post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and 10). Seventh Statement: The “Unknown Humanity of God in Christ” “Until recent times,” Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen observes,…
Having previously proved without any shadow of a doubt that the great John Owen was not a Baptist, no, definitely not a Baptist, and certainly not a Presbyterian, it is important that we now go one step further. In this…
Ressourcement: retrieving our past for present faithfulness –true history in The Letter to Diognetus Imperial Rome, especially in the first two hundred years of its existence, was “obsessed with time” and its place in the flow of history.[1] This obsession…
Meet the New American Dream, Same as the Old American Dream: Thoughts after seeing Joy Movies are more than entertainment, date night venues, or after (during) work escapes. At their best, they are something closer to lay theology or therapy…
