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Soon after his conversion, J.I. Packer became acquainted with Keswick theology through his involvement in the Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. The central theme of Keswick thinking is the promise of a deeper spiritual life: complete deliverance from sin and closeness to Christ. The teaching takes various forms, but its dominant theme is that Christians, in a … Read more
Matthew’s Eunuch’s: A Response to “Trans” Interpretations of Matthew 19:12 This paper responds to interpretations of Jesus’ saying about eunuchs in Mt 19:12 arrived at through the lens of non-gender-conforming ideology. These interpretations seek to justify a non-binary theological anthropology, as opposed to traditional Christian sexual mores. This paper seeks to address three arguments of … Read more
The Nicene Creed affirms that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father.” However, the Western Church added the filioque clause, “and from the Son,” which led to significant disagreement with the Eastern Church. Specifically, the Eastern Church maintained belief in a procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father only, emphasizing the monarchy of the … Read more
This study explores the theological complexity of YHWH’s relationship with foreign kings and kingdoms in the Hebrew Bible, focusing on three primary models: defeat, support, and initial support followed by eventual punishment. While the first two are relatively straightforward, the third model undergoes significant development as Israel responds to imperial domination by Assyria and Babylon. … Read more
John’s theology of the Logos is often treated as a framing device or part of a source for the so-called “prologue.” That John has no real interest in this identity is supposedly evident in the fact that Jesus is not identified as the Logos elsewhere in the Gospel, where he is the Christ, the uniquely … Read more
In the 2013 article “Summaries of Israel’s Story” (SIS) by Jason Hood and Matthew Emerson, a list of story summaries from Scripture and ancient literature was compiled. Chris Bruno, Jared Compton, and Kevin McFadden used the criteria of Hood and Emerson’s article to perform a book-length analysis on New Testament story summaries in 2020 called … Read more
In this exploration of Wolfgang Musculus on Psalm 8, a Messianic Psalm, Musculus proposes a broadly sweeping treatment of the concept of human dignitatis, or dignity, from its prelapsarian purity, it postlapsarian destruction of the imago Dei in humanity, and then finally its restoration and consummation through the incarnation of Christ. Anchored in his methods … Read more
Every interpretation of Scripture has come from a human body. The cultural, ethnic, and contextual aspects of embodiment are frequently considered in most modern hermeneutical approaches. However, what is often overlooked—and what frequently operates beneath, as a response to, and in light of these varying contextualized bodies—is affect. Affect theorists typically define affect as encompassing … Read more
Many commentators, including Benjamin Merkle, Harold Hoehner, Darrell Bock, Constantine Campbell, and others, have viewed φύσει (by nature) in Eph 2:3 as portraying only a genealogical problem of sin. “By nature” refers to a person’s condition from birth, a condition that leads them toward God’s future wrath. However, one can understand φύσις in the Hellenistic … Read more
Luke’s birth narrative bridges the Gospel’s first-century context and the Old Testament context to which the author subtly but consistently refers (Hays, 2017). The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Luke’s birth narrative instructs the reader, first, to identify the birth of Jesus as YHWH’s visitation to an exiled people, and second, to … Read more