THE REFORMED CLASSICALIST

Or, Why the Contemporary Reformed Philosophical Mind Cannot Provide a Robust Public Philosophy In what follows I will be making less of a...

Due to (1) a continued increase in busyness as far as the eye can see and (2) a growing uneasiness with the value of interacting on...

DIFFERENTIA II: TRUE VERSUS FALSE We begin with the essence of true theology. This is really another way of speaking of the whole of...

REALISM, NATURAL THEOLOGY, AND AN OBJECTIVE SYSTEM Now the connection between realism and natural theology can be most clearly perceived...

INTRODUCTION This paper will argue that the soteriological critique of natural theology, under the influence of the via moderna,...

In our highly politicized culture today, there has been a lot of talk about how each of us “self-identifies.” At times, it reaches the...

For years we have been preached to about not “compromising the gospel” with politics. This sermonizing was of course aimed at the “Right”...

THEOLOGY IN HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION Summary of the Scholarship To what extent should historical theology function as a source for the...

What follows are the twenty most thought-provoking books I read this year. They are not necessarily in the order of those I would most...

There has never been another time in my life of reading that I have taken in more academic journal articles—or what we call “the...

It occurs to me that before we get any deeper into the Decalogue itself, two concepts need to be more deeply explored in order to avoid...

What is Meant by the “Two Tables” of the Law? I will briefly dispense with the criticism of Meredith Kline, who argues against the...

What is law? In the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas wrote that “law is a rule and measure of acts, according to which someone is led...

Hebrews 1:3; 2:14 When Ligonier Ministries came out with its Statement on Christology, called “The Word Made Flesh,” in the weeks that we...

You know the drill—“Whosoever.” “All means all.” and “Those are your verses, but what about this one?” Without getting into why such an...

As far as some of the more difficult aspects of this passage, there is the use of the word “god” (v. 13) for what appears to the medium....

I.3.ii. Applications of Theological Truth Here divisions will mean the three-fold way of knowing why we believe, knowing what we believe,...

I.3.i. Methods of Theological Inquiry Here divisions will mean the distinctions to be made between biblical, systematic, historical, and...

John 7:53-8:11 is absent in the best and earliest Greek MSS. In other MSS there are different portions of the text that are present, and...

“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave...