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July 2013

July 15, 2013

The Opening Question (Torrey 101)

At the Torrey Honors Institute, we teach by questioning. The professors in the program gather...

July 08, 2013

On Being the Local Church: A Musing

Last December I helped plant a new church in La Mirada – Anglican Church of...

July 01, 2013

Charles Stang: Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite

Charles M. Stang, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: "No Longer I" (Oxford: OUP, 2012) (review copy...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

No Suspense: Justice Scalia and Gay Marriage

My guess is that Antonin Scalia has newfound sympathy for Terry Lee Collins, that hapless...

June 19, 2013

What God Says and Doesn’t Say

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) God has spoken so...

June 18, 2013

“Scripture is Wise Even In Its Silence”

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) God communicates. He speaks...

June 16, 2013

Psssst: Melchizedek!

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) The book of Hebrews...

June 15, 2013

God Swears He’s Telling the Truth

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here) Here’s our last baby...

June 14, 2013

The Trinity as Old Testament Book Club

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here) We can learn to...

June 12, 2013

Hearing God: Start by Overhearing

This is a section from a sermon I preached at my home church, Grace Evangelical Free...

June 10, 2013

Schleiermacher was Wrong

As I celebrated the graduation of the Torrey Honors Institute class of 2013, I took...

June 06, 2013

Eno Snaisehpe (Ephesians One Backwards)

What would it take to lose your salvation? Sometimes I think the fact that we...

June 05, 2013

Nomina Sacra as Theological Claim

In his remarkable book The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity, Kendall Soulen pays very...

June 04, 2013

The Four Causes of Boethius’ Book

In Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Boethius' De Trinitate, Thomas brings his favorite Aristotelian categories to...

June 02, 2013

The Blessing of Trinity Sunday

I got invited to preach on Trinity Sunday (May 26, 2013) at Redeemer Church of...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

“You Are Opening the Doors to Every Demon” (Barth circa 1935)

Around 1935, Karl Barth developed a style of speaking and writing that cut through a...

May 30, 2013

Karl Barth: The Word of God and Theology

Karl Barth, The Word of God and Theology, trans. Amy Marga (New York: T&T Clark, 2011),...

May 28, 2013

12th Annual G. Campbell Morgan Lectures Online

For twelve years, the Torrey Honors Institute has organized the G. Campbell Morgan Theology Lectures,...

May 24, 2013

Prayer for the Class of 2013

A prayer given at Torrey graduation, May 24, 2013. It includes a little unfootnoted Calvin,...

May 24, 2013

Benediction for LABTS Graduation 2013

The Los Angeles Bible Training School graduated another class of Bible students last week. These...

May 24, 2013

Graduation Prayers

"Write prayers and burn them," advised P.T. Forsyth in The Soul of Prayer. Why write...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Doubting 101

This week Fred Sanders posted a link to a meditation on Barth and the experience...

April 24, 2013

Divine Education

One of our semesters at Torrey Honors Institute is called On Learning and Knowledge, and...

April 24, 2013

Whither Trinitarian Theology (Holmes pt. 3)

Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson finish their series of posts on Steve Holmes' new Trinity...

April 22, 2013

A University Should Be a University

I am fairly certain that John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University has been...

April 18, 2013

Heart Religion (Wesley on the Christian Life)

My book Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love is due out...

April 16, 2013

Traditional Trinitarianism (Holmes pt. 2)

Matt Jenson and Fred Sanders are discussing the recent book on the doctrine of the...

April 16, 2013

Reminding God of the Brevity of Human Life

I’d like to suggest an alternative to the common understanding of a well-known verse. Verse...

April 14, 2013

Trinitarian Theology for the Church (Review)

The Trinity was forgotten for a period of “centuries of doctrinal tragedy,” until suddenly in the...

April 11, 2013

“The Quintessential Catechizing Doctrine”

The Spring issue of Credo magazine has a great set of articles on the doctrine...