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Biblical worship is fundamentally understood as the response of created beings to the self-revelation of the Creator. A proper response in worship engages both mind and body, involving the entirety of the individual. Central to this concept of worship is the integration of reverence and celebration – the ability to approach God with awe and … Read more
Randall Balmer (2010, 2021) has helped dispel the myth that American evangelicals responded with reflexive outrange to Roe v Wade. A number of years indeed passed between the monumental SCOTUS decision and the adoption of (what would become known as) the pro-life position as a plank in the American evangelical platform. However, having cleared away … Read more
The silence in Acts regarding Paul’s collection for Jerusalem has been described as “thunderous,” “striking,” and “extremely surprising.” Apart from a single (and contested) reference to the collection in Acts 24:17, Luke seems to have overlooked the project that occupied so much of the Apostle’s time, attention, and theological reflection. Paul’s collection for Jerusalem was … Read more
First John 3:17 read: ὃς δ᾽ ἂν ἔχῃ τὸν βίον τοῦ κόσμου καὶ θεωρῇ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ χρείαν ἔχοντα… “Whoever has the life of the world and sees his brother having need…” Τὸν ἀδελφόν is the accusative direct object of θεωρῇ, but how should we label the function of the participle ἔχοντα? A survey of … Read more
The reception of Jonathan Edwards’s writings in the Netherlands has been extensive and influential since the 18th century, with the Dutch being among the first to translate his works, doing so more than any other language at the time. Edwards’s appeal in the Dutch context was facilitated by the religious and intellectual networks connecting Dutch, … Read more
Historians have long posited that eighteenth-century American evangelicals repudiated the self and self-love in stark opposition to the emergence of enlightened and liberal advancements at midcentury. This is despite how a positive vision of self-love had long occupied an important place for many theologians – especially for Augustinian puritans. This shift towards identifying self-love as … Read more
Gregory the Great, pope from 590 to 604, served during a time of swift transition with the breakdown of the Empire. Taking his cue from Augustine, Gregory read the events of his time to indicate that the world was moving swiftly to a close. His rich eschatology impacted a number of different aspects of his … Read more
Stewardship of the apostolic deposit of faith, encapsulated and transmitted as the regula fidei, was not an uncontested labor during the patristic era. The primary catalyst fueling this work were adversarial teachings, both from outside and within Christian churches, which sprung up and spread rapidly. By the close of the second century, a class of … Read more
Bénédict Pictet, largely an overlooked figure of Reformed orthodoxy, is most often remembered as the one who delivered the funeral oration for his uncle, Francis Turretin. And yet, considered in his own right, Pictet was an influential and important theologian and pastor within the Swiss early-modern context of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. … Read more
Zygmunt Bauman diagnoses our cultural climate as one of liquid modernity – a state of permanent instability in which norms vanish as quickly as they attempt shape. Modernity’s obsessive melting of the solids (faith, tradition, religion, commitment) has resulted in a world in which individuals are disembedded from createdness, relationships are commodified, and the construction … Read more