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While the Council of Nicaea is best known for its watermark creed and political context, this paper will examine the pastoral theology of the Canons of Nicaea. Often neglected in the study of Nicaea, the Canons give a snapshot of the shared convictions about ministry and illuminate the pastoral concerns of the leaders behind the … Read more
Recent research indicates that Gen Z is undergoing a mass exodus from the church and traditional Christianity. For instance, Lifeway Research found in 2017 that 66% of regular church-going teens left the church after graduating high school, and this percentage has remained steady. In 2024, Barna Research shows that only 16% of Gen Z members … Read more
Scholars and theologians who support LGBTQ ideology and relationships often justify their beliefs by referencing Gregory of Nyssa’s account of gender. Through his concept of “double creation,” Gregory suggested that sex as male and female is a secondary feature introduced by God, anticipating humanity’s fall into sin. Therefore, he argues that our sexual differentiation lacks … Read more
I plan to answer the following questions: 1. What is a covenant? 2. What is the marriage covenant? 3. What responsibility does a husband and father have for his wife and children? 4. Does God promise that for a household with at least one Christian parent all the children are Christians? 5. How is a … Read more
Unlike Roman Catholic theologians, evangelicals have been slow to write on the metaphysics of gender. Most evangelical works on sexuality limit their investigation and argumentation to biblical texts and exegesis. Already within evangelical theology, there has been a growing movement of retrieval. This paper will contribute to evangelical anthropology by retrieving Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics, especially … Read more
This paper presents aspects of a larger project that will be published in 2026 called Hope and the Future of Humanity. In the book, I consider two contexts for eschatological reflection, i.e. transhumanism and ecology. These two contexts gain increasing attention from philosophers, theologians, political thinkers and futurists. As Jonathan White writes on the notion … Read more
Since the emergence of the Baptist movement in England, many have accused Baptist ministers of being unlearned, “dunces, and ignorant [of] both tongues and arts.” With the establishment of dissenting academies, such Bristol, Stepney, and Northern, learned ministry was advocated among English Particular Baptists since the beginning of the long eighteenth century. Despite recent scholarly … Read more
The central claim of the Consummation Anyway (CA) model is that God could bring about eschatological consummation sans the fall and the incarnation, whereas the Sin Anyway (felix culpa) model proposes consummation and the incarnation presuppose God’s ordination of sin for the purpose of bringing about God’s greater glory and humanity’s greater good. In this … Read more
Our contemporary culture immerses individuals into perpetually changing contexts that require novel responses. Communication increasingly relies on a progression of ad-hoc experiences, where meaning is constructed and interpreted within specific, situated contexts (Mauri 2021, 3). This reliance on ad hoc language requires we create novel features in our language to navigate fragmented contexts. How does … Read more
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul begins his teaching on the resurrection with a creedal reminder of the gospel (vv1-11). Paul’s framing of the brief, creedal statements in verses 3b-5 is quite remarkable. In 15:1-3, he intersperses three repetitions of εὐαγγέλιον (gospel) and its cognates with four metaphors that describe embodied engagement with the gospel: standing … Read more