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As the field of linguistics advances, it is vital that we bring those advances over to our study of the Hebrew Bible so that we can have the clearest and most accurate comprehension of the text as possible. Over the past twenty years, the fields of pragmatics and generative linguistics have shown that complementizers, like … Read more
Is There Such a Thing As Judeo-Christianity? A Study of Evangelical Views with Francis Schaeffer, Carl Henry, and Os Guinness. In the past few years, an unexpected revival has taken place. Nearly a century after Auschwitz, antisemitism has returned. While this is somewhat expected in part of culture increasingly divorced from the Christian consensus, it … Read more
Since the early 2010s teen mental health has seriously declined as rates of anxiety, self-harm, depression, and suicide have sharply risen. Jonathan Haidt has labeled this western global epidemic of GenZ mental illness “The Anxious Generation” and the “great rewiring of childhood” (The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic … Read more
The benefit of hindsight—historical observation and related reflection—provides opportunities for assessing and revising our thought and practice today. Hermeneutical hindsight is no exception. What have we learned from Nicaea, hermeneutically? What assumptions, authorities, crises, and criteria informed and shaped the Creed’s substance, scope, and stability? Which hermeneutical concerns fueled the Creed’s defenders and opponents? What … Read more
Redemptive-historical interpretation aims to limit the primary meaning of Scriptural passages to their relation to and significance for God’s unfolding acts in time. Accordingly, redemptive-historical interpretation might be argued to see divine revelation as fundamentally offering certain type of historical consciousness—a consciousness of the very real acts of God in history and what he intends … Read more
This paper investigates a possible theological influence of Irenaeus of Lyons upon the Creed formulated at the Council of Nicaea. The most obvious starting point for such a study is with the Irenaean rule of faith (regula fidei). The relationship of this second-century expression of faith to the Creed of 325 is a fascinating one. … Read more
This paper aims to propose a lyrical theology methodological analysis for contemporary praise and worship music (CPWM) from within its own theological framework. Others have written on the history of CPWM as well as conducted analytical research ethnographic and quantitative research into worship experiences and songwriting. Still others have critiqued CWM for its continuationist or … Read more
As of 2025, Africa is home to the largest Christian population of any continent. In the early 1900s, only around ten million of its inhabitants identified as Christians; today, that number exceeds 754 million.[1] Yet within this remarkable continental expansion, there remain countries where Christianity has gained only a small foothold. The Federal Republic of … Read more
Michel Barnes has identified the “X from X” formulation (e.g., “Light from Light,” “God from God”) as a traditional expression of causality in early Christian theology, but how it was it employed to speak of consubstantiality varied. A close reading of the contemporary documents reveals the nuanced manner in which the phrasing could be used … Read more
There are more than 1,900 Greek words that occur only once in the NT. Known as hapax legomena (Gk., “things said [only] once”), these words comprise nearly one third of the total vocabulary in the NT. The great majority of these hapax legomena are also known from secular writings. Only a few such words are … Read more