In Evangelical circles, self-love is an idea and practice often viewed with suspicion, if not outright hostility, most often being equated with selfishness. Little distinction…
Learning to hear the voice of God in our hearts and minds is a practice that we get better at as we mature. We can…
Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith…
Christianity, both contemporary and historical, has focused primarily on self-denial, and so has often mishandled and abused not only the concept of self, but the…
The Triadic (a.k.a. “tripartite”) model of Biblical anthropology declares that humans are composed of three distinct parts – spirit, soul, and body (1 Thes. 5:23).…
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in…
The current majority view in evangelical Christendom regarding the makeup of man is dualism, that is, two components, the physical (body) and the immaterial (soul…
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…
There is no absolute proof for historical events, and if you are trying to prove the existence of immaterial realities like God or objective morals,…
Last Update: 12.9.2021 Changes: Added Grenz As a Master’s student in theology, I have had to take a class in Systematic Theology. I wanted to find…
1.0 Introduction Biblical Theology (BT) is a relatively recent approach to hermeneuticsThe theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature,…
One of my new precious book acquisitions is another anthology by William J. Bennett, The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood. Today,…
One of the main ways we can reduce the acrimony in our society is to stop proposing that government should solve all our problems. Specifically,…
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also…
Author and podcaster Jeff Goins has a great productivity podcast, and a while back he discussed the five drafts or stages your writing goes through.…
As yet another high profile evangelical departs from centuries of orthodoxy on the issue, we have to ask ourselves, what is happening, and should we…
In Part 1, I covered Dr. Daniel Kirk’s pro-gay theology. In this concluding article, we cover the pro-hetero theology of Dr. Robert Gagnon, and draw some…
This debate is probably one of the more advanced theological debates on the subject, miles from the simplistic first-tier arguments. It is also interesting to…
Many of us suffer under the illusion that only “born artists” are creative, and the rest of us are just ungifted. But it turns out,…
Are you an audiobook junkie? Do you crave better listening material for your long commute? Do you also own a few Kindle books? Then you…
One of my favorite atheist philosophers is Graham Oppy, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University and Associate Editor of the…
A recent Open Letter To Straight People On The Pulse Massacre (Huffington Post) suggests that those of us who are merely tolerant of the LGBT+…
I have a high regard for Calvinism, since it saved me from (hyper)-Arminianism, experienced by me as the Holiness movement. This movement is the child…
If you are unfamiliar with NPR’s Intelligence Squared debates, you are missing out. They gather four excellently qualified people to debate, two against two, propositions…