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
Due to the sustained popularity of theological retrieval within evangelical publishing, the doctrine of divine participation has gained increased attention in recent years. Works such as Hans Boersma’s “Heavenly Participation” and Andrew Davison’s “Participation in God” have argued that all creaturely being is dependent upon the creatures’s “participation” in divinity. As an extension of this … Read more
Throughout the history of the church, the doctrine of divine simplicity has been seen as an essential component of theology proper. The post-Reformation orthodox theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are no exception in this recognition, however some are noted for omitting the doctrine as its own category in their doctrines of God. Included … Read more
This is a joint proposal. My co-author is Jacob B. Percy. In our previous work (ETS 2023), Jacob Percy and I, building upon the foundation laid by Gregg Allison (2019 article, 2021 book, 2022 online article), Gracilynn Hanson (2022 dissertation), and Jacob Percy (2023 dissertation), presented Creation Essentialism as a biblically faithful conception of gender … Read more
Christian-Muslim dialogue has been an important aspect of the Christian mission throughout church history. It plays a significant role in making space for gospel conversations between Christians and Muslims in Pakistan. In this paper, I argue that Barth’s theology of reconciliation can be an important point of interaction with the Islamic theology of reconciliation in … Read more
While some theologians relativize the Trinity’s consistent manner of working out of concern about ontological subordination, evangelical theologians like Perkins, Edwards, and Hodge conclude that the Trinity works according to an intrinsic pattern of logical subordination. Theologians have helpfully described how Scripture presents the Trinity working in a certain manner—according to Trinitarian prepositional metaphysics. Theologians … Read more
Reformed Covenant theology is often criticized as dis-integrating theology, e.g. the covenant of works allegedly conceptualizes God as a distant judge and the Christian life as similarly dispassionate conformity to legal requirements; the covenant of grace and its concurrent theology of pedobaptism allegedly marginalise the need for people to consciously exercise faith. This paper will … Read more
The goal of this paper is to strengthen Rafael Bello’s argument from the metaphysics of the hypostatic union against Karl Barth’s fallen Christ. Bello’s book, Sinless Flesh: A Critique of Karl Barth’s Fallen Christ, is situated within a broader movement of contemporary scholarship that considers whether Christ assumed a fallen human nature. In Sinless Flesh, … Read more
The Protestant Reformed tradition lacks consensus on whether the body is part the imago Dei. Traditionally, the body has been rejected from the image based on the biblical understanding that God is Spirit. Its inclusion would necessarily imply that God has a body. This leaves the image of God to consist either solely in the … Read more
While belief in the Holy Spirit is affirmed as an article of faith within the Nicene Creed (325 CE), the person and work of the Holy Spirit awaited the more robust, Trinitarian definition provided by the Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 CE. As Jaroslav Pelikan opined: “At Nicea the doctrine of the Holy Spirit had been … Read more