Against some who have argued for the erasure of sex distinctions in the new creation and others who have seen in the hope of bodily resurrection the promise of a different ontological order, this paper will argue that just as our embodied sex provides the true ground for gender identity in this age, so it … Read more
The evangelical church and academia have recently been wrestling with the transgender movement. At the popular level, people with gender dysphoria describe themselves using phrases like ‘being born in the wrong body,’ ‘having a female body but a male soul,’ etc. Scholars meanwhile debate whether gender should be seen as a biologically essentialist category or, … Read more
The earliest mission to China was carried out by the Church of the East, whose monks set their feet on the land of a spirited society represented by thousands of years of ancestral worship and fear of deities from Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and other folk religions. This proposal aims to investigate Jingjiao’s surviving documents, particularly … Read more
In the realm of soteriology, Charles Spurgeon is recognized as a Calvinist, a theologian fully affirming God’s election, predestination, etc. But he also strongly believed in human responsibility, i.e., that both views were true and needed to be accepted. In one of his sermon’s, he noted: “That God predestines, and that man is responsible…are believed … Read more
The doctrine of Christian perfection has been at home in the works of theologians ever since the time of the early church. Yet, the doctrine has also created endless debate over the extent of sanctification in this life. The task of the theologian is to balance the commands of perfection found in Scripture with the … Read more
Every semester in systematic theology courses, professors teach students about theology proper, including God’s attributes. Every Sunday in churches, preachers exegete and proclaim truth from God’s Word, including the truth about his attributes. When the many biblical attributes are considered together, differing traditions categorize God’s attributes in various ways: communicable and incommunicable, goodness and greatness, … Read more
Christology, the bedrock of Christianity, is a topic of profound significance. Consequently, every culture has its portrait of Christology. Likewise, each generation must engage in the doctrine of Christ. Speaking of cultural reality in today’s digital age, how does digital technology affect our Christological portraits in a world where digitality permeates cultural reality? Does an … Read more
In contemporary soteriological discourse, the assertion has frequently been made that penal substitution jeopardizes the union of the Trinity. To answer the concern, many advocates of penal substitution have turned to the inseparability of operations in order to blunt the charge. While the inseparability of operations successfully circumnavigates some aspects of the Trinitarian Critique–as in … Read more
What role should the Passover sacrifice play in shaping a biblical theology of atonement? Many scholars assume that the Passover is a paradigm for understanding Christ’s atoning work; some interpreters even regard the Passover as a penal sacrifice. While Jesus’ sacrifice is undoubtedly compared to the Passover, it is far less clear whether the Bible … Read more
In 2017, D. A. Carson dubbed John 5:26 the “Crux Interpretum for Eternal Generation” (Sanders and Swain, eds., Retrieving Eternal Generation, 79–97). It is difficult to disagree with Carson—if, in fact, it can be established that the Father’s bestowal of ζωὴν ἐν ἑαυτῷ (“life in himself,” NIV) is a reference to a paternal grant of … Read more