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Richard Bauckahm provides an influential and generative proposal regarding the church’s early acceptance of high Christology. His work, which makes use of a framework he entitles divine identity, has influenced not just biblical scholars but also theologians. In this paper, I assess Bauckham’s divine identity framework according to its usefulness for contemporary dogmatics. I do … Read more
Within contemporary theological aesthetics, the goal of sanctification is articulated in terms of form and beauty. As the process of becoming more like Christ, sanctification involves being conformed to Christ aesthetically: the beauty of saints conforms to the beauty of Christ. The discussion here primarily focuses on Christ’s moral beauty, as humans are to imitate … Read more
1 Corinthians 11:2-16 has been considered one of the most difficult passages to interpret in all of Paul’s letters. From head coverings, to hair length, to angels (or messengers?) watching on, the exegetical challenges are too many to count. One thing seems fairly clear, however: Paul’s leading theological statement about man being the “head” (kephalē) … Read more
In the proposed paper, I offer a constructive account of Abraham Kuyper’s Sphere Sovereignty model using the vocational category of witness. Specifically, I contend that the category of sovereignty itself is dialectically underdetermined in Kuyper’s model and that the very existence of the church in society calls forth the Christian vocation of witness as the … Read more
For many contemporaries, the twentieth century was an age of the Holy Spirit. Besides the great revivals in Wales, India, and Korea, the enthusiasm of the Keswick Convention was also carried by the missionaries to China. For Chinese Protestants, pneumatology is an understudied doctrine, even though many desperately desired the Holy Spirit’s power. While praying … Read more
Original Title: Is It Still a Relevant Topic? Evaluating the Historical Objectivity of Chronicles Based on Kenneth Scott Latourette’s View on History Writing. Is the record of the events in Chronicles reliable? Heavily influenced by historicism, the historicity of Chronicles has been a long-circulated topic among OT scholars. Yet, due to the challenges in arriving … Read more
While the perfect tense-form of ἀναβέβηκεν has been presented as the solution to this cryptic verse by adherents of Verbal Aspect Theory (Pierce and Reynolds 2014; Porter and Pitts 2017), no fully satisfactory explanation of the perfect tense-form in this verse has yet been given. It remains “the hard example for everyone” in explaining the … Read more
The metobelus is generally considered one of the sigla Origen used in his work on the Hexapla. This siglum is used to terminate a reading initiated by an asterisk or obelus. The evidence from the Syro-hexapla (Syh), in which the metobelus finds consistent use, confirms this standard scholarly judgment. This judgment, however, assumes that a … Read more
Despite public hostility toward Roman Catholicism by mid-nineteenth-century American Protestants, there are notable cases of influential Northern Protestants converting to Catholicism. Particular conversions during the 1840s may be primarily attributed to shared experiences among the converts before changing faiths, facilitated by the evangelistic outreach of the Roman Catholic Church. Such transitions may be seen as … Read more
The holistic approach to healing and wholeness in evangelical Christianity in Africa can provide insight to scholars interested in the significance of the body-soul relationship, a significant topic debated among philosophers and theologians for centuries and that remains relevant in global evangelical Christianity today. As Joel B. Green observes, modern science challenges the Christian notion … Read more