This paper argues that introducing combat sports for women within Christian higher education is inconsistent with a Biblical Worldview. The thesis contends that such sports conflict with the biblical vision of womanhood and undermine the theological commitments of Christian universities. By analyzing relevant biblical texts, including Proverbs 31, 1 Peter 3, Titus 2, and Nehemiah … Read more
Nicaea achieved consensus on the Trinity, Chalcedon on the deity and humanity of Christ, Chicago on the inerrant autographs, so now can we move toward a consensus on creation by returning to the Hebrew text, grammar, and genre of Genesis 1 while gleaning Biblically supported creation insights from Basil to Walton? Without vowel points, the … Read more
Did the historical Jesus really claim to possess divine authority? Although there is a virtual consensus among scholars that the earliest Christians worshiped Jesus as divine, a key question remains: Is there continuity between this belief and Jesus’s self-claims? This paper argues that Jesus’ words at his Jewish examination were understood by his Jewish adversaries … Read more
This paper traces the development of the doctrine of the Sabbath through the history of Baptist confessions, examining how theological themes surrounding the Sabbath have been articulated, maintained, and adapted over time. By analyzing a range of widely recognized confessions among English-speaking Baptists—including the Orthodox Confession, the Second London Confession, the New Hampshire Confession, The … Read more
Faith and reason are central avenues through which Christian spirituality is accessed and experienced. The dialectic between the two, however, has alternately been characterized as being either synergistic or adversarial. For some faith is an intrinsic aspect of “knowing” and a necessary facet of properly warranted belief. Others would agree with Mark Twain that “faith … Read more
This paper is adapted from the concluding chapter of my dissertation on New Thought’s founding author, Warren Felt Evans. In the paper, I introduce the well-known Word-Faith/prosperity gospel movement with Kenneth Copeland as its most prominent American pastor-entrepreneur. The thesis of this paper is that traces of New Thought paganism can be found throughout the … Read more
Critics of Christian analytic philosophical theology often claim that it is neither good philosophy nor good theology. Philosophers criticize it because it investigates topics starting from specifically Christian assumptions that other religious and non-religious perspectives find objectionable. Theologians criticize it for its emphasis on using the logical tools of analysis in its investigations rather than … Read more
This is a joint proposal. My co-author is Torey J. S. Teer. In our previous work (ETS 2023), Torey Teer and I, building upon the foundation laid by Gregg Allison (2019 article, 2021 book, 2022 online article), Gracilynn Hanson (2022 dissertation), and myself (2023 dissertation), presented Creation Essentialism as a biblically faithful conception of gender … Read more
Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987) was one of the most significant Christian apologists of the 20th century. His thought has been praised by some and rejected by others, and often praised and rejected by persons who are otherwise in significant agreement on a multitude of theological points (i.e., by persons who would be theologically conservative and … Read more
The intrinsically relational process of the Holy Spirit’s project to remake our humanity (Rabens, Guthrie) offers important insight to our reading of the Holy Spirit’s ministry to the people of God in both the OT and NT. As the “central miracle” of the prophesied Coming Age (Eichrodt), the advent of the Spirit at Pentecost stands … Read more