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May 2024

May 30, 2024

What is a Saint in Christianity?

In the last post I tried to answer the question of "What is Legalism?" within...

March 2024

March 11, 2024

God Knows Ye Shall Be As Gods!

“This communion which the saints have with Christ doth not make them in any wise...

February 2024

February 09, 2024

How Many “Gods” Are There Really?

It has long been a theological and metaphysical bone of contention as to whether there...

November 2023

November 27, 2023

The Second Great Christian Heresy

In the previous post, I discussed the first, great Christian heresy, the heresy of Judaizing. This...

September 2023

September 15, 2023

The Real Reason Why Moses Couldn’t Enter the Promised Land

Recently, while reading a highly regarded commentary on the Book of Numbers, I realized a...

August 2023

August 18, 2023

The Founding Fathers of Progressive Christianity: Part 1 – Schleiermacher

This is the first of a four part series in which I will explore theologians...

February 2023

February 06, 2023

Book Review: “Are We Together?” Eduardo Echeverria’s Catholic Analysis of Evangelical Protestants

Eduardo J. Echeverria Are We Together: A Roman Catholic Analyzes Evangelical Protestants Hobe Sound, Florida:...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 3(b) – Knowledge and True Belief

In the last article in this series on Christmas, I wrote about some longstanding philosophical...

December 16, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 1 – The Theology of Christmas

What Christmas Is Not About Around this time of year a slew of videos, articles and...

December 09, 2022

Agents of Redemption: An Exercise in Translating Theology

Much of my time is spent reading very difficult texts, usually in the areas of...

December 02, 2022

Tradition & Authority in Protestant and Catholic Theology (Part II): Problems

In the last post, I tried to provide a fair outline of the Roman Catholic...

November 2022

November 28, 2022

The Role of Tradition In Catholic and Protestant Theology

There is a long, arduous, historical debate between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and among Protestants...

November 11, 2022

What Was The “Original” Original Sin?

What was the first sin? For centuries theologians have wrestled over what constituted Adam and Eve’s...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Are Christians and Born Again Christians The Same Thing?

Are Christians and "Born Again" Christians the same thing? Well, the straight forward and simple...

October 21, 2022

Reading As An Evangelical: How To Cultivate A Christian Mind

In a previous series of posts, I talked about the four, primary domains of Christian...

August 2022

August 26, 2022

What Should Christians Study?: Part 1 – Theology

There are many specific areas of knowledge relevant to the study of God, God's creation,...

May 2022

May 27, 2022

Remaking Civilization, Part 2: Recapturing Intrinsic Value

In the previous post in this series, I argued there are three fundamental aspects of...

September 2021

September 20, 2021

Why We Cannot Prove God Exists and That’s Okay

In his masterful introduction to Metaphysics, Peter van Inwagen points out why the cosmic fine-tuning...

September 13, 2021

Eros, Agape and Why We Cannot Love Well

In an incisive, albeit slightly esoteric, essay entitled "The Schizoid Christ," theologian Graham Ward criticizes...

July 2021

July 09, 2021

The Task of Theology: Do We Speak Well of God?

A few years back I heard theologian Kevin Vanhoozer describe the task of theology very...