The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon
And yet, there is cause to think that this unbelief has become the very ground of a new positive consensus. It entails the unavoidably moral and religious...
Syrian Religion in Ancient China
The human mind is such that it needs and seeks forms for its heartfelt expressions; even so, the human heart is such that it will too easily justify false...
What Text will now Define & Describe Ontology?
If Western modern philosophy is to be faulted for its own Enlightenment presuppositions—ironically ill-disposed as it became to the Biblical revelation,...
The Power of God Conceived in his Revelation to Man
Accordingly, human notions of both power and purity were challenged, toppled, and then turned right-side-up by the gospel. Rome imposed its power by a sword;...
Religion is Contemplated in God’s Gift of Redemption
"Without special revelation the religion of men and the philosophy of thinkers do not have a right knowledge of God, and hence no right knowledge of man and...
Inspiration & Intelligibility
Revelation is by virtue of the Son and carried out by the Spirit, effecting understanding and a renewed relation between God and men. In scripture, language...
Mood, Medium, & Message
Paul first makes his readers to understand the facts upon which their faith depends, for faith must understand the works of God before it gives answer to the...
Making Place for Time
In the beginning, time possessed no argument with the creator or creature, but showcased the passing moments in which God revealed himself to man in his...
The Gospel & Corresponding Christian Witness
The Apostolic witness regarded the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the fact of the resurrection was combined with the records of Jesus’ life and...
Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience
“What we do is just create sympathy. We create…we create admirers. We don’t create followers." The post Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience...
Word & Deed on the Plane of Time
The chapter begins with the silence of God, but that yields to the kind of creative speech that can only belong to God: He will return to Sarah the time of...
The Incarnation: Humiliation to Ironic Victory
"Christ was not a human hero whose motto was Excelsior, who overcomes every obstacle, and finally achieves the pinnacle of his fame. On the contrary He...
Power, Privilege, & Potluck Dinners
In capitals all around the world, men devise many means to encourage or impose even the most tenable of unities. Against these efforts are raised the schemes...
A Good World for Fallen Man
"The present world is neither the best nor the worst possible, but it is a good world for fallen man." The post A Good World for Fallen Man appeared first on...
Conceiving a Fiction
As others have remarked before, this is an extraordinary argument. Paul, in fact, asks his reader to conceive of the resurrection’s fact as if it were a...
Authority, Power, & the Kingdom of God
All who see him, recognize his power; but what is most fascinating and troubling to them is the evidence that Jesus represents another authority. The post...
History & Mystery
The public resurrection of Jesus Christ is the sufficient cause for a public proclamation of the gospel, and also its universal confession—what Paul calls...
A Surprising Application of a Familiar Situation
Paul’s point is not merely that there is a temporary similarity between the heir and the servant, since both are under the same tutorial of the Mosaic law;...
Paul Corrects Confusion & Error in the Churches of Galatia
In its misperceived, perverted form, the promise could not be good news to all people, for it was enjoined to commands that had been given to some people....
The Realm of Revelation
It is wonderfully ironic that such institutions do their best work by employing the empirical methods of the Enlightenment to disrobe its worst prejudices....