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Ephesians has a stunning vision of the future new creation. Due to its realized eschatology, Ephesians uniquely imagines the fulfillment of this vision in the present. It explores the threads of the new creation imagined in Ephesians. It investigates how the writer imagines this breaking into the present. It argues that by using a pronounced … Read more
In Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, Karl Barth provides his basic framework for outlining the nature and method of theology. A major part of this framework involves the use of analogies, or models, that faithfully repeat what God has said in his Word. I argue in this paper that such a model as “theology-is-food” encapsulates Barth’s … Read more
The notion of glory is central to the Christian faith. Scripture speaks of God possessing glory, displaying glory, receiving glory, and sharing glory. Scripture also speaks of God being glorified. This essay builds upon Paul Silva and Brandon Szerlip’s ordinary language analysis of glory concepts to clarify what it means to glorify God. Silva and … Read more
The Eucharist has untapped implications for the study and practice of theological economics. The Eucharist shows us the “way things really ought to be,” which should inform our economic ideals. A survey of meals in the Bible, culminating in the Lord’s Supper, reveals a theme of sharing and fellowship, or koinonia. This is paper seeks … Read more
Deuteronomy consists largely of the historical Moses’s final sermonic oracles, which he both spoke (Deut 1:3, 5; 4:44; 5:1; 27:11; 29:1[28:69]) and transcribed (31:9, 22, 24; 32:45) on the plains of Moab just prior to his death (32:48–52; 34:1–6). This study argues that the way Moses uses Scripture in this embedded material supports the view … Read more
In this paper, I apply narrative textual criticism to the textual variants in Galatians 3:19 to determine how they might augment the exegetical task. While historically the goal of textual criticism was to construct the “original” New Testament text, this goal has shifted in recent discussion in favor of a reconstruction of the Ausgangstext, or … Read more
How does the angelology of Jonathan Edwards relate to his Reformed forebears? For many contemporary theologians and church historians, Edwards is an aberration from the Reformed tradition. Others counter that he was no aberration, but rather was simply trying to take what the Reformed were doing and articulate that vision in a new context. The … Read more
The first narrative historians of the English Baptists, Thomas Crosby (1683–1751) and Joseph Ivimey (1773–1834), used Baptist assemblies and confessions in their histories to call Baptists of their own days to unity, but did so in different ways and with different goals. In order to minimize the theological and social differences between Particular and General … Read more