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Dueling Dualisms

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

10 Rules for Interacting on My Posts

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...

Two Ways to Self-Identify Before God

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...

The Selective Separation of Church and State

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

Method and Truth in History: Part 2

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

The Year in Books: 2019

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...

Method and Truth in History: Part 1

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...

The Perpetuity and Uses of the Law

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...

Ten Commandments: Form and Context

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

The Idea of the Law of God

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...

Arminian Texts? A Calvinist's Reply

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

The Divisions of Theology: Part 2

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

The Divisions of Theology: Part 1

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

The pericope de adultera. John 7:53-8:11

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...

A Dehumanizing Remedy? Exodus 21:20-21

“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...

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