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Divine Magistracy, Retributivism, and Inference
A few weeks ago, I touched on the matter of consequentialist logic in theology. One of my arguments was that we need to be wary about rejecting some theological premise just because we are used to...
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Justification by Michael Horton, 2 Volumes
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, but I had to break radio silence to write up a little notice about Michael Horton’s new, 2-volume work, Justification. It’s the fourth entry in the...
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Finding Penalty Where None Should Be Found
For one reason or another, I’ve been digging around in the Church Fathers in my studies on holiness. Along the way, I’ve run across a couple of useful passages on the atonement in Cyril of Jerusalem...
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If everything is sacramental, is anything a sacrament? (creation,...
Last week I was feeling puckish, so I tweeted out, “What if, and just go with me here, what if only the sacraments are sacramental?” I think most people got that I was being somewhat playful. Still,...
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Trueman Called It
This last couple of days I have been at the Paideia Center conference at RTS Orlando, where the main subject was the doctrine of the Trinity. The lectures and panels were all excellent, but I wanted...
View ArticlePreaching Requires More than Biblical Theology Alone
I want to briefly following up my earlier post on the fact that theology proper cannot subsist on biblical theology alone. Earlier this week I found out I was going to be preaching the temptation of...
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It’s All the Same Story: Paul on the Exodus, the Conquest, and Jesus
In Acts 13 we read a remarkable sermon of Paul to the Jews of Antioch in Pisidia in the synagogue. “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. [17] The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and...
View ArticleThe God Who Hears Our Laments
Pastoral theology is tested in a time of crisis. War, famine, natural disasters, and plagues are winds that sift the chaff from the wheat, or purifying fires revealing so much dross mixed with the...
View ArticleHim Whom the Father Sanctified and Sent Into the World
There’s a tantalizing little verse towards the back of John 10, germane to my dissertation, which I’d never noticed before. It comes right in the middle of Christ’s famous response to his Jewish...
View ArticleTamar Was Righteous
Tamar, daughter-in-law of Judah, gets a bad rap. Often cited as one of the “scandalous” women in Jesus’s genealogy (Matt 1:3), she’s famous for tricking her father-in-law into getting her pregnant by...
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