Category: religion
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Thinking About God: Thinking Through Sheeben’s Dogmatik and Trying to Simplify
Read essay: Thinking About God: Thinking Through Sheeben’s Dogmatik and Trying to SimplifyImagine you’re twelve years old, and someone asks you the biggest question ever: What is God really like? Not just “God is love” or…
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Impassibility???
Read essay: Impassibility???Few doctrines generate more suspicion in modern theology than divine impassibility. The claim that God does not suffer, is not emotionally injured, and cannot…
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The Ever-Faithful God: Divine Blessedness as the Ground of Divine Faithfulness
Read essay: The Ever-Faithful God: Divine Blessedness as the Ground of Divine FaithfulnessReader’s introduction: A study of divine blessedness as the ground of God’s covenant faithfulness. Begin with the Divine Blessedness reading pathway if you are…
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Exegetical Theology: a Methodological Proposal
Read essay: Exegetical Theology: a Methodological ProposalIntroduction: Recovering the Order of Theology Christian theology has always required method even if it is not acknowledged . From the patristic era onward,…
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2 Natures in 1 Person??
Read essay: 2 Natures in 1 Person??To understand the logic of the hypostatic union, we must let Scripture shape our understanding. The doctrine is not a speculative construction. It is,…
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Participating Without Competing: Removing Competition From Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom
Read essay: Participating Without Competing: Removing Competition From Divine Sovereignty and Human FreedomIs God in control? If God is in control how can I be free? If I am free, how can God be in control?…
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Understanding God’s Pure Actuality in Christian Theology
Read essay: Understanding God’s Pure Actuality in Christian TheologyThe question is not whether God is living, loving, and free. Those affirmations belong to the unanimous confession of Christian theology across every era…
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Divine Blessedness and Divine Impassibility
Read essay: Divine Blessedness and Divine ImpassibilityReader’s introduction: An introductory argument connecting divine blessedness and impassibility. Begin with the Divine Blessedness reading pathway if you are new to this subject.…
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There Is No Evil Deity: Against the Myth of an Eternal Satan
Read essay: There Is No Evil Deity: Against the Myth of an Eternal SatanThe idea that Satan is eternal alongside God is a theological error with deep roots and serious consequences. If granted, it fractures the doctrine…
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The Wisdom of Knowing Our Limits: What Did Socrates Really Mean?
Read essay: The Wisdom of Knowing Our Limits: What Did Socrates Really Mean?Socrates is often quoted as saying that he was wise because he “knew that he knew nothing.” It is one of the most famous…
