Scripture defines salvation as a “work of God.” Many in the church reduce God’s work to a simple “belief” in Christ, or Christ’s death on the cross. But the “work” of God has a definitive meaning and a unique sequence of steps, whereby salvation is the creative result, or “product” – the unsaved person is … Read more
How does the angelology of Jonathan Edwards relate to his Reformed forebears? For many contemporary theologians and church historians, Edwards is an aberration from the Reformed tradition. Others counter that he was no aberration, but rather was simply trying to take what the Reformed were doing and articulate that vision in a new context. The … Read more
The argumentation of my paper has to do not on the fall of Lucifer per se, but on the fall of those angels who fell with him following him. That an irruption among the heavenly hosts of angels somehow came about at some point in primordial history, resulting in a remainder of holy angels on … Read more
Can Christians within the Reformed tradition confess that God still speaks? In terms of past activities, reflection on few other types of divine action have generated more fruit than God’s speech; in at least one theologian’s estimation, “it is God’s mouth and vocal cords that have had a preeminent hold on Christian theology.” Accordingly, within … Read more
In Deuteronomy 18, Moses promised the Israelites, “[God] will raise up for them a prophet like you [Moses] from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him” (v 17). In short, a prophet is defined as speaking God’s words; God will speak … Read more