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As James Barr aptly demonstrated almost fifty years ago, a binary between literal and free is not a helpful lens through which to view Septuagint Translation Technique since a translation can be both literal and free at the same time, but in different ways (James Barr, The Typology of Literalism in Ancient Biblical Translations, MSU … Read more
I am arguing in this paper for the historically-rooted designator “pastor-theologian” to be used in examining the life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and, by implication, a useful framework for modern pastoral identity construction. Precisely stated, a pastor-theologian is a biblically-educated, theologically-grounded intellectual who makes disciples in and through the local church by the … Read more
Dotting the landscape of eastern Virginia are historic churches with churchyards containing the mortal remains of their people. Epitaphs and funerary inscriptions abound in these cemeteries, and they offer a look into a variety of societal, economic, historic, and religious lives and times of the people they represent. During the colonial period (1607-1783), it was … Read more
Soon after his conversion, J.I. Packer became acquainted with Keswick theology through his involvement in the Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. The central theme of Keswick thinking is the promise of a deeper spiritual life: complete deliverance from sin and closeness to Christ. The teaching takes various forms, but its dominant theme is that Christians, in a … Read more
Over the past forty years, a growing body of literature has emerged to provide theological and practical guidance for evangelical worship. In response to A.W. Tozer’s famous complaint that worship is evangelicalism’s “missing jewel,” evangelical theologians have sought to define and offer a more theologically robust foundation for the practice of worship. This paper surveys … Read more
Matthew’s Eunuch’s: A Response to “Trans” Interpretations of Matthew 19:12 This paper responds to interpretations of Jesus’ saying about eunuchs in Mt 19:12 arrived at through the lens of non-gender-conforming ideology. These interpretations seek to justify a non-binary theological anthropology, as opposed to traditional Christian sexual mores. This paper seeks to address three arguments of … Read more
Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done” (Matt. 26:42, NIV) suggests that redemption could only come through the crucifixion. However, in the Summa Theologiae (ST III.46.2), Thomas Aquinas argues that redemption was … Read more
This paper contends that the allegation that Jesus is possessed by Beelzebul in Mark 3:20–22 is not a baseless fabrication that Jesus’s opponents invented purely to discredit him. Although the claim that Jesus is possessed is undoubtedly false and is motivated in part by his opponents’ desire to undermine his ministry, their diagnosis is based … Read more
This essay argues that the short parable in John 16:21 is a double entendre, referring not only to a woman’s child-bearing experience in general but also to a specific woman’s child-bearing experience—her hour [ἡ ὥρα αὐτῆς], foreshadowed in this parable and realized at the foot of the cross in chapter 19, where Jesus announces that … Read more
Called “the centerpiece of prophetic literature” (LaSor, Hubbard, Bus, 276) and “quoted, paraphrased, and alluded to more than any other Old Testament book” (Bosma, 17–18), it is no wonder the book of Isaiah has earned the title “Fifth Gospel” (Sawyer). Yet, for the noted significance within scripture and throughout church history, the preaching of the … Read more