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One of the striking realities of theological discourse is that the same story can be told in radically different ways, yielding divergent meanings. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the early Christological debates, where scriptural texts functioned as battlegrounds for competing theological visions. This paper will explore how the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15:28 … Read more
Abstract I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins The Apostles creed affirms: “I believe in the forgiveness of sins.” What is it we believe? The paper asserts the heart of the doctrine of forgiveness of sins is the sacrificial, atoning death of Christ. Sin is the context of forgiveness and is preceeded by repentence. Paper’s … Read more
While the Council of Nicaea is best known for its watermark creed and political context, this paper will examine the pastoral theology of the Canons of Nicaea. Often neglected in the study of Nicaea, the Canons give a snapshot of the shared convictions about ministry and illuminate the pastoral concerns of the leaders behind the … Read more
Recent research indicates that Gen Z is undergoing a mass exodus from the church and traditional Christianity. For instance, Lifeway Research found in 2017 that 66% of regular church-going teens left the church after graduating high school, and this percentage has remained steady. In 2024, Barna Research shows that only 16% of Gen Z members … Read more
Psalm 88 is a relatively lengthy superscription with three distinct phrases. The first is a mirror image of Ps 87’s superscription and the second phrase parallels language (לענֹת) in the body of Ps 88 (ענית, עני, vss. 8, 10). The third phrase is almost identical to the superscription of Ps 89 following, only differing in … Read more
Unlike Roman Catholic theologians, evangelicals have been slow to write on the metaphysics of gender. Most evangelical works on sexuality limit their investigation and argumentation to biblical texts and exegesis. Already within evangelical theology, there has been a growing movement of retrieval. This paper will contribute to evangelical anthropology by retrieving Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics, especially … Read more
This paper presents aspects of a larger project that will be published in 2026 called Hope and the Future of Humanity. In the book, I consider two contexts for eschatological reflection, i.e. transhumanism and ecology. These two contexts gain increasing attention from philosophers, theologians, political thinkers and futurists. As Jonathan White writes on the notion … Read more
The central claim of the Consummation Anyway (CA) model is that God could bring about eschatological consummation sans the fall and the incarnation, whereas the Sin Anyway (felix culpa) model proposes consummation and the incarnation presuppose God’s ordination of sin for the purpose of bringing about God’s greater glory and humanity’s greater good. In this … Read more
The setting of this narrative is a public birthday celebration for Herod Antipas. Even though this narrative is built on an interchange of two stories, an analysis of the parallels and comparisons from the intercalation offers little insight about the women in the narrative. Therefore, another narrative approach will be adopted using the implied author’s … Read more
Our contemporary culture immerses individuals into perpetually changing contexts that require novel responses. Communication increasingly relies on a progression of ad-hoc experiences, where meaning is constructed and interpreted within specific, situated contexts (Mauri 2021, 3). This reliance on ad hoc language requires we create novel features in our language to navigate fragmented contexts. How does … Read more