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March 2014

March 03, 2014

Symposium on Soulen’s The Divine Name(s)

The Winter 2014 issue of Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology features...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

Thoughts Gymnastikos on Alternatives to Trinitarian Regiratio

Athanasius of Alexandria (4th century), always trying to put the best face on the writings...

February 17, 2014

Homer, Virgil, and the Theology of the Underworld

Among the host of ways Virgil modifies and develops Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the changes wrought to the...

February 05, 2014

Nine Mighty Acts of God (Christoph Barth’s OT Theology)

Christoph Barth's 1991 "theological introduction to the Old Testament," God With Us, organizes the theology...

February 04, 2014

God With Us (Christoph Barth)

Karl Barth once remarked that if he could be accused of founding a school of...

February 03, 2014

Sitting Just Quietly in God’s Light

One the happiest parts of my life at present is the view out my office...

January 2014

January 15, 2014

Locating Atonement: Coming in January 2015

In systematic theology, three doctrines stand out as mega-doctrines, as conceptual clusters that are right...

January 09, 2014

Love Reigns IN God, Not OVER Him

I've been meaning to write something about this, but every time I read this paragraph,...

January 03, 2014

Theology of First John

Courtesy of Open Biola, here is video of a lecture I gave in December 2013...

January 02, 2014

So Many Books at LATC 2014, Jan 16 & 17

In just a couple of weeks, Fuller Theological Seminary will be hosting the second annual...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

“O Spare Me” for the New Year (W.B. Pope)

Should a Christian pray for a longer life on earth? Never mind admitting that that's...

December 18, 2013

Personhood According to Pannenberg

Wolfhart Pannenberg is one of the most accomplished theologians of the twentieth century. His skill...

December 16, 2013

The Advent of Good Will

By far my favorite story about the celebration of Christmas is the Christmas truce of...

December 12, 2013

With the Current, Not Across It

I've stopped saying "Just before he ascended into heaven, Jesus gave his disciples the Great...

December 10, 2013

The Classical Question of the Origin of Evil

At a recent panel discussion (ETS 2013 in Baltimore), I was asked to say a...

December 05, 2013

Fittingness: How Conveniens

(From a paper I read at ETS 2013 in Baltimore, as part of a panel...

December 04, 2013

Contemplata Aliis Tradere: Aquinas according to Bauerschmidt

(From a paper I read at ETS 2013 in Baltimore, as part of a panel...

December 02, 2013

C.S. Lewis: on faces and how to get them

This morning, Fred Sanders and I participated in a chapel honoring C.S. Lewis' life and...

December 02, 2013

The Praise of Perelandra

Excerpt from a chapel on the stories of C.S. Lewis, at Biola on Dec. 2,...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

First Lines of Theology Books

Joan Didion once said that the first line of a book is the decisive part....

November 18, 2013

The Dazzling Dusk

There are a few lines from a poem by Coventry Patmore that stick in my...

November 15, 2013

God Went Bowling

There's a little song called God Went Bowling by a band called the Swirling Eddies....

November 13, 2013

Hiding A Few Words

When I published The Deep Things of God in 2010, I made a mental note...

November 12, 2013

Mysteries to Themselves

The fallen angels in Paradise Lost are of course shockingly wrongheaded in their estimation of God:...

November 12, 2013

A Culture of Secrets and Intimidation

Richie Incognito’s alleged harassment of his Miami Dolphins’ teammate Jonathan Martin has been in the...

November 11, 2013

Glad Protestantism

Last Friday, the estimable Peter Leithart posted a little manifesto in his column space at...

November 09, 2013

A Class on Trinitarian Theology

The 2014 Los Angeles Theology Conference, "Advancing Trinitarian Theology," will be on January 16 and...

November 05, 2013

9 Papers on the Trinity at LATC 2014

The second annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, entitled "Advancing Trinitarian Theology," will happen this January...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Christology Ancient & Modern: The Book!

Christology Ancient & Modern: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics is the first volume in a series...

October 28, 2013

The Glory of God

If God’s glory falls in the middle of the cosmos, and no one’s there to...