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The metaphor of the slave, which serves as a reference to Christ’s humility for us to imitate and as a reminder for Christians to practice obedience, is common in Augustine’s corpus, including his sermons.[1] For example, Elia aptly points out that in Sermo (s.) 159B, there is an explicit slave Christology expounded by Augustine through … Read more
This paper explores evangelical theology and its limitations from being a global theological enterprise. Part one will explore how the evangelical imagination informs the theological task and prohibits the emergence of minority theological voices. In part two, the paper investigates an approach to Christian theology encompassing story and song to mitigate the shortcomings of an … Read more
The Reformation marks of a true church form the dominant theological grid of many Protestant theologians and pastors today, namely, the right preaching of the Word of God and the right administration of the sacraments (Calvin, Institutes 4.1.9; Thirty-Nine Articles, Art. 19). Sometimes church discipline is added as a third mark (Belgic Confession, Art. 29). … Read more
This paper will seek to answer a question prompted by a particular phrase in 1 Thessalonians 4:11, “What does it mean to aspire to lead a quiet life?” In its only other occurrences in the New Testament, the Greek word translated as aspire is associated with familiar Christian ambitions. Paul aspired to “preach the gospel” … Read more
It is no secret that the church in the Global North is struggling. For many, in this increasingly secular age, the church is an icon of religious irrelevance. This paper questions whether the root of many of our challenges is a misunderstanding of the nature of worship. Frequently in the Hebrew Bible, the Lord rejects … Read more
The recent proliferation and usage of livestream technology in the local church, particularly over the past four years in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, demands that churches and pastors reconsider their broader audience (a global audience) in addition to their local body of believers. Studies have shown that the average church’s reach on a … Read more
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was a widely influential force for the globalization of evangelical ideas and social programs, which were enthusiastically absorbed and applied in the Australian context. Prominent among those ideas were the twin influences of evangelical holiness theology and postmillennial enthusiasm. The temperance … Read more
Since the Colossian Haustafel assumes the continuation of slavery in the Christian community, most modern commentators promptly dismiss the possibility that τὴν ἰσότητα τοῖς δούλοις παρέχεσθε (Col 4:1a) is a command to grant slaves equality. Likewise, since the Ephesian Haustafel assumes the continuation of slavery, most modern commentators promptly dismiss the possibility that τὰ αὐτὰ … Read more
This paper investigates the doctrine of man in the writings of Carl F. H. Henry and how his approach to this doctrine served as a profound impetus for his passion to spread classic evangelicalism across the globe. Evangelicalism was reinvented in the 1940s with the birth of the neo-evangelical movement. There were many leaders involved … Read more
Evangelicalism is a movement for the protection and promotion of vital piety in the modern world, with origins in the globalising eighteenth century, and as such embodies a vision for both the world and for the individual. It offered the “power of godliness,” as revivalists would summarize it. As a movement it has successfully travelled … Read more