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Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 A.D. – c. 215 A.D.) has often been portrayed as a Christian teacher who ministered apart from the ἐκκλησία. Hans Von Campenhausen’s view represents this opinion of Clement: “Clement himself and his own teachers are outside the rank of the professional clergy” and “in his spiritual instructions he hardly ever … Read more
This presentation is concerned with the formation and evolution of national and imperial identity among the Black Baptist community in Nova Scotia in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth. What is quickly apparent when reading the association minutes is that much of the national and imperial identity … Read more
Baptist scholars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have interpreted the 1833 New Hampshire Confession, the most influential Baptist confession of the past two centuries, as a blend of Calvinist and Arminian doctrines. Calvinist Baptists in upper New England, according to the standard interpretation, were losing ground to the Arminian Free Will Baptist movement and … Read more
The Fourth Gospel (FG) opens with the expression Ἐν ἀρχῇ which coheres exactly with the LXX of Genesis 1:1. The explicit lexical and thematic correspondence between the FG and Genesis has long been noted by scholars like C.K. Barret, D.A. Carson, Craig Keener, Andreas Köstenberger, Brandon Crowe, and Edward Klink III among others. I believe … Read more
One trend in both popular and scholarly literature is to define or describe the fear of the Lord by some other value in the Christian life. In recent history, the fear of the Lord has been defined or described as love, faith, covenant obedience, conscience, wisdom, integrity, covenant loyalty, and general morality. Each of these … Read more
The realist theology of Reinhold Niebuhr contributed to the disillusion of Christian nationalism and American exceptionalism formerly espoused by progressive Christians. In other words, realism’s theological underpinnings began a logical path of falling dominos that culminated in the rejection of Christian nationalism by 1960s progressive radicals. Significant scholarship has documented the rise of Christian nationalism … Read more
In this paper, I argue that divine-breath imagery in both Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian thought is broader than John C. Poirier portrays it to be, and consequently that God’s breath can depict both origination and speaking, thus supporting an inspirationist understanding of θεόπνευστος in 2 Timothy 3:16. Examining the background imagery evoked by θεόπνευστος is necessary … Read more
This paper comparatively examines commentaries by sixteenth-century European reformers on the apostle Paul’s “allegory” in Galatians 4:21–31. Older scholarship on the reformers’ relationship to allegorical exegesis tended to view the reformers as strict literalists. More recent work, in contrast, has frequently argued that the reformers in fact continued to subtly interpret the Bible allegorically, even … Read more
Several complex moral issues surround race relations. People need a foundation to navigate the various moral issues within race relations. The person and work of Christ form an ethical foundation for race relations. This presentation will argue that the importance of the person and work of Christ in the Nicene Creed establishes a foundation for … Read more
Historically, scholars and theologians have interpreted 1 Timothy 2:11–15 as prohibiting women from teaching and holding leadership roles in the church based primarily on the allusion to Genesis in verses 13–14. Originally, the limitation was understood to be because women were more easily deceived than men since Eve alone had been deceived (2:14). More recently, … Read more