Baptist scholars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have interpreted the 1833 New Hampshire Confession, the most influential Baptist confession of the past two centuries, as a blend of Calvinist and Arminian doctrines. Calvinist Baptists in upper New England, according to the standard interpretation, were losing ground to the Arminian Free Will Baptist movement and … Read more
One trend in both popular and scholarly literature is to define or describe the fear of the Lord by some other value in the Christian life. In recent history, the fear of the Lord has been defined or described as love, faith, covenant obedience, conscience, wisdom, integrity, covenant loyalty, and general morality. Each of these … Read more
Scholars from a wide variety of Christian traditions (McGrath, Ward, Davison, Ordway) all have recognized the value of imaginative apologetics. However, contemporary introductions to the subject are often generalized and lacking in specific application. This paper will present a Lewisian framework for apologetics in the imaginative mode as a means of Christian engagement with the … Read more
Scholars and theologians who support LGBTQ ideology and relationships often justify their beliefs by referencing Gregory of Nyssa’s account of gender. Through his concept of “double creation,” Gregory suggested that sex as male and female is a secondary feature introduced by God, anticipating humanity’s fall into sin. Therefore, he argues that our sexual differentiation lacks … Read more
I plan to answer the following questions: 1. What is a covenant? 2. What is the marriage covenant? 3. What responsibility does a husband and father have for his wife and children? 4. Does God promise that for a household with at least one Christian parent all the children are Christians? 5. How is a … Read more
Unlike Roman Catholic theologians, evangelicals have been slow to write on the metaphysics of gender. Most evangelical works on sexuality limit their investigation and argumentation to biblical texts and exegesis. Already within evangelical theology, there has been a growing movement of retrieval. This paper will contribute to evangelical anthropology by retrieving Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics, especially … Read more
This paper presents aspects of a larger project that will be published in 2026 called Hope and the Future of Humanity. In the book, I consider two contexts for eschatological reflection, i.e. transhumanism and ecology. These two contexts gain increasing attention from philosophers, theologians, political thinkers and futurists. As Jonathan White writes on the notion … Read more
Since the emergence of the Baptist movement in England, many have accused Baptist ministers of being unlearned, “dunces, and ignorant [of] both tongues and arts.” With the establishment of dissenting academies, such Bristol, Stepney, and Northern, learned ministry was advocated among English Particular Baptists since the beginning of the long eighteenth century. Despite recent scholarly … Read more
The central claim of the Consummation Anyway (CA) model is that God could bring about eschatological consummation sans the fall and the incarnation, whereas the Sin Anyway (felix culpa) model proposes consummation and the incarnation presuppose God’s ordination of sin for the purpose of bringing about God’s greater glory and humanity’s greater good. In this … Read more
This paper will present the interpretative approach of my forthcoming commentary on the Song of Songs (Zondervan, ZECOT). The Song of Songs is a poetical wisdom composition in the tradition of Solomon that serves as the correlate to the approach of Proverbs 1–9, especially Proverbs 5 and 7. With this interpretation, the woman of the … Read more