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Herman Bavinck has seen a renaissance in the last few years. One thing that is often mentioned about his theological approach is that he is deeply trinitarian. This trinitarian approach has significant implications for how one thinks about human diversity and social ethics. There has been significant work done on the Organic Motif in Bavinck’s … Read more
N. T. Wright posits that research on supernatural phenomena within the past two millennia has been limited. William Placher contends that some postmodern theologians have diverged from early Christian and Reformation theologies, adopting contemporary perspectives on healing through a process known as the domestication of transcendence. This domestication has led many contemporary Western theologians to … Read more
?and hence is a so-called neologism, and that it is also a ‘deformation of ἀκροποσθία’. Even in relatively recent reference works, we find this idea reproduced more pronouncedly as a key example of neologisms in LXX Genesis (Companion to the Septuagint 2015, 17). The paper will proceed in three parts. First, by means of several … Read more
A key Hebraic metaphor, that of “walking with God” or “walking in the ways of God,” was used throughout biblical literature to convey not only moral behavior and covenantal faithfulness but also a relational journey. This metaphor captured aspects of life beyond creeds because it conveyed the idea of imitatio dei rather than a system … Read more
Some Christian and Messianic Jewish theologians have noted the absence of Israel in the Nicene Creed. This paper provides a constructive augmentation of the Nicene that incorporates aspects of the Shema and biblical passages of redemptive history of Israel into an expanded form of the Nicene Creed. This reworked and expanded creed is termed “A … Read more
Some scholars interpret John 5:19–30 as affirming the Son’s eternal submission to the Father’s authority, with verses 19 and 30 often cited in support of the doctrine of Eternal Functional Subbordination (EFS) (e.g., Daham, Grudem, Keener, Schemm). However, this study demonstrates that such an interpretation is exegetically unwarranted and misreads the literary and theological context … Read more
John Mark Comer has quickly become among the most popular voices concerning Christian life and ministry. In 2021, Comer, with a few colleagues, launched The Art of Teaching, a so-called “Masterclass” on preaching and teaching. The program is marketed as a “homiletics course for the modern age.” Throughout Comer’s ministry and writing, one will find … Read more
Drawing from the Christian theological tradition, particularly Thomas Aquinas, this paper argues that God fulfills human teleology as a truly common good rather than as a merely individual good. While not focused on political theology, this account builds on contemporary discussions of the common good in both political theology and Thomistic thought (e.g., Hauerwas, Hittinger, … Read more
This paper argues that American evangelical opposition to Witness Lee’s (1905–1997) ministry in the 1960s–70s stemmed not only from theological differences but also from a complex interplay of racialized and immigrant fears, Cold War politics, and theological insularity toward non-Western Christianity. By labeling Lee’s teachings—particularly his emphasis on Christian deification (theōsis)—as “cultic” rather than engaging … Read more
When Paul writes εἰρήνη καὶ ἀσφάλεια (1 Thess 5:3), does he allude to the self-proclaimed benefits of Roman rule? That this phrase represents “a common mantra of Rome’s narrative that proclaimed its promised blessings to the faithful” is a widespread interpretation approaching the level of an axiom (Winn 2024; cf. Wright 2013, Weima 2012). Of … Read more