Yes, that is the sesquipedalian title of my Master’s thesis, and what was funny is that our final paper’s title…
In Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (1991), Don Whitney provides a thorough and thoughtful catalog of the many possible…
In The History of Theological Education (2015), historian Justo Gonzalez examines the historical events and ideologies that influenced the Christian approach to theological and general…
In The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief (2006), Huston Smith (d. 2016), the lifelong religion scholar and Professor of Philosophy…
The question of how Christians can and should approach our interaction with believers from other faith traditions is an important…
Augustine wrote The Trinity over twenty years, ending with a text so enormous that it was published in parts, in…
Augustine wrote The Trinity over twenty years, ending with a text so enormous that it was published in parts, in…
Augustine lived through what became obvious was the end of the millennium-long Roman empire. It would seem hard to fathom that such a kingdom could…
Augustine’s work Confessions is one of his major works, and includes not only timeless wisdom comparing this world to the kingdom that is coming, it…
1. Thagaste: The Childhood of Augustine One of the most important influences on any human being is the character and…
In Evangelical circles, self-love is an idea and practice often viewed with suspicion, if not outright hostility, most often being…
Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of…
The Triadic (a.k.a. “tripartite”) model of Biblical anthropology declares that humans are composed of three distinct parts – spirit, soul,…
In Created in God’s Image (1994), Anthony Hoekema (1913-1988) appraises Biblical anthropology in a comprehensive way, but also brings to…
The current majority view in evangelical Christendom regarding the makeup of man is dualism, that is, two components, the physical…
Alvin Plantinga is a modern luminary of philosophy, known especially for his successful defeater for the logical problem of evil,…
In Our Idea of God, Thomas V. Morris explores how we might think about understanding the idea and person of…
A Little Book for New Philosophers: Why and How to Study Philosophy, by philosopher and apologist Paul Copan was, for…
In Christian leadership and laity, the word “inerrancy” is often misunderstood because it is ambiguous until it is well defined and qualified by a handful…
In Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith, author Michael Reeves attempts to present the doctrine of…
1.0 Introduction Biblical Theology (BT) is a relatively recent approach to hermeneuticsHermeneutics (/ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/) is the theory and methodology of interpretation,…
Introduction In Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, authors Richards and O’Brien offer many reasons why Western Christians may be misunderstanding…
This paper was written as a final assignment for my M. Div. program at Fuller Theological Seminary, for the class…
1. A Brief History of My Communities My childhood was spent within a family whose ideology can be characterized as…