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As evangelicals, we have a problem. We live in a political climate of entrenchment and extremes in which party lines are more important than people, and unfortunately ecclesial practice often looks little different. In churches and Christian institutions across the US, confessions and statements of faith function not simply as a guiding word but as … Read more
As the narrative of church history is summarily rehearsed, the Council of Nicea was fixated in focused opposition to the Christological heresy of Arianism. The Life of Constantine, however, mentions a secondary yet forgotten focus upon Easter (“Quartodeciman”) disputes. The Life boldly claims that the differences were discussed and “resolved by the united judgment of … Read more
In a time characterized by inflammatory rhetoric on social media and immediate responses to every developing news story, Christians may feel it is their obligation to be angry at injustice or injury against the innocent. Christians will often use the phrase “righteous anger” as an excuse for these outbursts, as though anger produced from godly … Read more
In several of her writings, including God, Sexuality, and the Self, Sarah Coakley has argued the existence in the early Church of a distinctive approach to trinitarianism that was founded in Paul’s argument in Romans 8:9-30. This approach centered on Spirit-led prayer in which the pray-er was invited into participation in the divine life of … Read more
In the ancient Near East, kings were viewed as having a level of access to the gods not available to ordinary people. In ancient Egypt, for example, this royal privilege is asserted both visually and textually. In countless reliefs, pharaohs are pictured standing beside one or another of the gods – sometimes holding hands with … Read more
Thomas Helwys’s (1550-1616) “A Declaration of Faith” is the earliest English Baptist confession. Published in Amsterdam in 1611, that claim is defensible, but reflects a complicated and controversial time in English Baptist origins. The church Helwys led parted ways with their founder, John Smyth, over doctrinal conflict and also faced scrutiny from other congregations as … Read more
The question of ongoing revelation creates significant division in evangelical Christianity. The question arises with prophetic ministries (Grudem, 2000; Storms, 2017; Wilson, 2019) and with various approaches to spirituality and guidance (e.g. Willard, 1999; Blackaby, Blackaby & King, 2008; Shirer, 2012) which encourage Christians to “hear God”. Both of these approached have been criticised as … Read more
Despite its centrality to Christian theology, the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed’s implicit doctrine of revelation remains under-explored. This may seem unsurprising since the doctrine was largely assumed in the debates of the time and not a focus of the Creed. This does not, however, mean that doctrine is absent or irrelevant. This paper reflects on several features … Read more
Foxes “Book of Martyrs” was once one of the most widely read and broadly influential books within the English Reformation tradition. Starting as one of the great chained books, given a privileged place in every parish church alongside the English Bible and Book of Common Prayer during the English Reformation, it exerted an incredible influence … Read more
This paper explores William Perkins’s use of covenantal thought as a key tool for interpreting eschatology, focusing on how his understanding of divine covenants shapes his view of the end times. Perkins, a prominent figure in Reformed theology, employs a covenantal framework to unify Scripture, presenting the unfolding of God’s redemptive plan from creation to … Read more