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Sarah A. Coakley’s “God, Sexuality, and the Self” is her account of the doctrine of the Trinity. Coakley relies on Romans 8 as the main scriptural passage for her reflexive model of the Trinity. Although this volume is not Coakley’s theology of the atonement per se, this paper’s interest in the atonement falls downstream from … Read more
“I was dedicated to serve the Devil as a baby,” said Byang Kato (1936-1975) in 1962. Yet, by the grace of God, this infant grew up to become “a happy child of God” and the Father of African Evangelicalism. Kato spoke plainly concerning his spiritual transformation, and much of his brief literary output focused on … Read more
In “The Case for Christian Nationalism,” Stephen Wolfe contends that while the church may give us the “principal image” of heavenly life, only a Christian nation can give us the “complete image.” He explains, “For in addition to being a worshipping people, the Christian nation has submitted to magistrates and constitutes a people whose cultural … Read more
Discourse Analysis was developed in the 1970s and 80s, when leaders in the field (like Longacre and van Dijk) set theory and methods in place. Nevertheless, only in the last decade or so has there been real traction in applying discourse methods not just to paragraphs or pericopes but to look at book-level discourse features. … Read more
Traditional depictions of Pharisees in the church have historically been negative. However, modern studies of Pharisees have developed a much more complex picture of this group within Judaism. While there are negative depictions of Pharisees in the gospels (particularly Matthew and John), Luke is more moderate and in the Acts of the Apostles, the depiction … Read more
Calvin R. Stapert’s warning that Christians today are the “unwitting heirs of musical thought that has its roots in secular, naturalistic Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought, which was unusually indifferent to—and often hostile toward—Christian thought” is still a significant contribution (2006). Stapert’s thesis is at the heart of why Clement of Alexandria’s (c.150–c.215) musical thought is … Read more
Augustine’s holistic anthropology and homiletical insights offer us guidance for preaching to today’s Christians and pagans. This paper will address two important aspects of Augustinian anthropology. These include the relationship of faith to understanding (Augustine, Epistulae 120.3; Peters, 2009) and the affections to the mind and will (Komline, 2019; Harrison, 2000). In the former, Augustine … Read more
Most protestant ecclesiologists consider the Church to possess two active offices: elder and deacon (Allison; Hammett). The elder, synonymous with pastor and overseer, is a position of leadership with ecclesiastical authority. The deacon is a servant and facilitator of ministry. However, the evangelist is often missing from the discussion of Church polity. If God calls … Read more
Of late there has been much written on the hermeneutics of the church fathers, reviving the Great Tradition, the superiority of precritical exegesis, or the sensibilities of premodern interpreters. Fewer, however, have demonstrated precisely what this looks like. This is somewhat surprising because though diversity exists in premodern interpretation, the fourfold sense (or the quadriga) … Read more
As pneumatological and missiological conversations have developed over the past fifty years, many have looked to the logos theology of the early church fathers to develop a theology of religions that is more optimistic regarding the eternal state of the unevangelized (Pinnock, 1992; Sanders, 1992; Yong, 2003, 2019; Kärkkäinen, 2003, 2015). One of the more … Read more