Posts Tagged ‘Theology’
A Theology of Fellowship
Larry Oats Fundamentalism is best known for its separatism, a willingness to separate when biblical truth is at stake. Separation, however, is the flipside of fellowship. If we can fellowship with someone (or something like a church or an association), we cannot separate from him (or it). If we do not have a basis for…
Read MoreTheology Matters (2.3): Defining Terms Proportionally
Mark Minnick This is a continuation of a series, the previous section was posted yesterday, other links below. In the previous portions, Dr. Minnick discussed the importance of Defining Terms Honestly and Defining Terms Accurately. Today he moves to Defining Terms Proportionally Proportion A third important criterion by which to test our theology is proportionality.…
Read MoreTheology Matters (2.2): Defining Terms Accurately
Mark Minnick This is a continuation of a series, the first section was posted yesterday, other links below. In the previous portion, Dr. Minnick discussed the importance of Defining Terms Honestly. Today he moves to Defining Terms Accurately Self-Education This leads inevitably to a second necessary application of the importance of definitions. We show our…
Read MoreTheology Matters (2.1): Defining Terms Honestly
Mark Minnick John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress recounts Christian’s visit to the instructive home of a good brother named Interpreter. This astute believer, charged by the Lord to prepare pilgrims for their journey, conducts Christian through the various rooms of his house. Each contains some parabolic lesson, but the first is especially significant. It contains a…
Read MoreTheology Matters (1.2) – How to Check Our Theology
Mark Minnick Part 1.1 published yesterday. How to Check Our Theology Given the magnitude of our theological ministry, we preachers must willingly submit our teaching to a rigorous Scriptural scrutiny. Not that we turn our people into critics, but that we be ourselves Bereans. To evaluate ourselves objectively, however, we’re going to have to abandon…
Read MoreTheology Matters (1.1) – Why Theology Matters
Mark Minnick I may not even know what a “theology” is, but I can’t avoid having one. That’s because “theo-logy” is a “word” (logos) about “God” (theos), and everyone, even an atheist, has something that he believes and says about God. He has a theology. Why Theology Matters Theology matters, therefore, in the first place,…
Read MoreEngaging with Keller, Thinking Through the Theology of an Influential Evangelical (A Review)
By Matt Recker Engaging with Keller, Thinking Through the Theology of an Influential Evangelical Iain D. Campbell, William M. Schweitzer, eds. Engaging with Keller is edited by Iain D. Campbell and William M Schweitzer. Each chapter deals with major points of concern in a unique fashion regarding a wide array of the theological missteps of…
Read MoreChrist Is Supreme Because He Is Man (Hebrews 2:5–9)
Layton Talbert Have you ever been stumped by a child’s theological question? It is a humbling reminder that sometimes children see things we have not noticed. A query from my daughter prompted a closer examination of the nuanced Christological argument of Hebrews 1–2. In that argument, the quotation of Psalm 8 in 2:6–8 raises the…
Read Moreeclectica: distinctive Christianity and the atonement
Two topics have my attention his week, so this will be a brief posting. The first link comes from a very interesting piece by Michael Kruger. The second is a piece put up by a friend of ours and frequent contributor, Jim Oesterwind. Jim offers notes on a series of sermons by another friend, Mark…
Read MoreWas the Serpent a Real Serpent?
Brian Collins Orthodoxy is challenged on many points. One point of interest is the question of the reality of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, indeed the reality of the whole account. On the point of the serpent, Brian Collins offers us the following contrasting views, and offers a sober and Biblical conclusion:
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