3 Models of Heaven in the Early Church
Lately, I have been reading a book called A History of Heaven by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang. I am fascinated with their 22-page chapter, “Irenaeus and Augustine on our Heavenly Bodies.”
Crushing Rahab: Does the Old Testament Borrow from Myth?
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“If Ancient Near Eastern mythology controls our interpretation, we’ll conclude that biblical authors conceived of Yahweh defeating a mythological monster known as Rahab to overcome chaos and create the world.” - TGC
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Review: Bavinck’s Theological Epistemology
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“Sutanto’s highly organized work is presented in seven chapters with one to four sections each. Chapter 1, Re-reading Bavinck’s theological epistemology opens with a call to re-frame the scholarly literature according to Bavinck’s organic motif. This motif is more than an ‘organizing devise,’ says Sutanto” - Joel Heflin
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Brief Review of a Paper on Presuppositionalism
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“These two claims do not match what I understand of Van Til’s apologetic. (I was schooled in this approach and adopted it for myself some years ago, so I am somewhat of an ‘insider.’)” - Matt Postiff
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Reactions to antinomianism: “four of the five waves listed above offer cures that are worse than the malady.”
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“…while Shepherdism, the New Perspective, the Federal Vision, and the King Jesus Gospel are emphatically wrong in polluting the doctrine of justification with human merit, their call to emphasize the obedience of faith should not go unheeded.” - Mark Snoeberger
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Trinity and the Old Covenant: Some Brief Questions and Answers
I’d planned to post the next article in my short series about “personhood” in the context of the Trinity. But, alas, my intellectual bandwidth is unequal to the task right now. Next week, though, the article about the social trinitarian understanding of “person” is coming!
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My Take on the New Covenant (Part 10): In Summary
Read the series.
In this final part I want to gather things together and summarize what has gone before. In the latter half of the full piece I interact with some other views. I shall not concern myself with running over that ground here. I shall only outline the major pillars of my position on the New Covenant:
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Modalism Redux? The Idea of “Person” in Classical Trinitarianism
The doctrine of the Trinity tells us there is “One Being, three Persons.” Of course, it’s more complicated than all that, but we’ll leave it there! In this definition, what is a “person?” That’s a hard question. Two main views are common today; the classical model and the social model. The Church has traditionally held to the classical view. However, if you ask the right questions, you’ll likely find most Christians actually believe in the social model.
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How should we understand the protection-promises of Psalm 91?
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“ ‘No evil will befall him’ (v. 10)–he won’t even dash his foot against a stone because God’s angels are protecting him (v. 11-12)! Has that been your experience?” - P&D
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A Godless Fundamentalist: how I went from being an atheist to a Christian
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“I’ve posted links to each chapter in the story of how I went from being an atheist to a Christian. You can find those links below.” - John Ellis
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