Category: religion
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Divine Plenitude: The Overflowing Life of God
Read essay: Divine Plenitude: The Overflowing Life of GodReader’s introduction: An introduction to divine plenitude and creation as a free gift from the fullness of God’s life. For an introductory reading sequence,…
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The Sacrifice That Answers the Problem: How The Garden Sacrifice, Leviticus, and Isaiah 53 Prepare Us For the Cross
Read essay: The Sacrifice That Answers the Problem: How The Garden Sacrifice, Leviticus, and Isaiah 53 Prepare Us For the CrossChrist’s cross did not arrive at Calvary without preparation. Before Christ was crucified outside Jerusalem, God was training his people to understand his eternal…
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The Covenantal Framework of Atonement
Read essay: The Covenantal Framework of AtonementWhy Representative Headship Is the Key to Understanding the Cross Many modern misunderstandings of penal substitutionary atonement arise from a failure to grasp the…
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What is Atonement?
Read essay: What is Atonement?What is the atonement? What is penal substitutionary atonement?
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DID GOD REALLY CHANGE? PRINCIPLES FOR READING ABOUT GOD
Read essay: DID GOD REALLY CHANGE? PRINCIPLES FOR READING ABOUT GODThe noble task of reading about God and discussing God must begin with humility and be guided by the entirety of Scripture as it…
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What Is A Person? Recovering a Theological Grammar for Speaking of God
Read essay: What Is A Person? Recovering a Theological Grammar for Speaking of GodThe word person feels simple. We use it regularly without thought. Yet in Christian theology it carries a precision that everyday language cannot sustain.…
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Firm at the Center and Gentle at the Edges: Navigating Opinions While Pursuing Truth and the Unity of the Church
Read essay: Firm at the Center and Gentle at the Edges: Navigating Opinions While Pursuing Truth and the Unity of the ChurchThe line between truth and opinion is not thin. It is not negotiable. Truth is what God has spoken and commanded. Opinion is what…
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Remember the Theological Context of Each Text: The Capstone of Exegesis
Read essay: Remember the Theological Context of Each Text: The Capstone of ExegesisMost of us learned to read the Bible by asking necessary questions: Who wrote this? When? What did the words mean in their original…
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Divine Simplicity and the Blessed Life of God
Read essay: Divine Simplicity and the Blessed Life of GodReader’s introduction: A study of divine simplicity and the unified perfection of God’s blessed life. For an introductory reading sequence, consult the Divine Blessedness…
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Thinking Through Scheeben on God’s Actuality
Read essay: Thinking Through Scheeben on God’s ActualityIII. There is a still deeper and more exhaustive conception of the Divine Substance contained in the expressions, “God is His own existence;” “God’s…
