Category: Theology
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Singles Awareness Day: Pondering Love’s Pain
Read more: Singles Awareness Day: Pondering Love’s PainUnrequited Love: Divine Plan, or Sin’s Consequence? This week marks the annual passing of Saint Valentine’s Day, or, as many of us experience it, “Singles Awareness Day.” In my personal opinion, neither singles nor couples tend to really look forward to it (but perhaps that just means I surround myself with cheap or mopey people)….
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Church Security Teams? Verdict: Unbiblical
Read more: Church Security Teams? Verdict: UnbiblicalBefore my title causes you to misunderstand my position, I want to say a few things. I like guns. I really do. It is part of the reason that I have a concealed weapons permit. More then that, I believe in self-defense. If someone enters my home to harm either myself or my soon to…
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A Defense of Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Trinity: Part 2 (Guest Post)
Read more: A Defense of Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Trinity: Part 2 (Guest Post)Introduction In my last post I addressed Karl Barth’s use of the term “Seinsweise” or modes of being. In this post I will look at the other two aspects of Barth’s doctrine of the trinity; his use of logos asarkos to distinguish the second person of the Trinity, and his concept of God being in…
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Church Mission and Two-Kingdoms or Whatever Happened to Evangelism?
Read more: Church Mission and Two-Kingdoms or Whatever Happened to Evangelism?During April 2009, Presbyterian pastor Tullian Tchividjian released a book entitled Unfashionable. The book was met with strong acclaim from a number of prominent Christians including J.I. Packer, Don Carson, Ravi Zacharias and surprisingly, Michael Horton. Perhaps the books greatest endorsement came from the pen of Tim Keller who wrote the book’s forward. Yet somewhere…
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A Defense of Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Trinity: Part 1 (Guest Post)
Read more: A Defense of Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Trinity: Part 1 (Guest Post)Introduction After the Enlightenment a major shift happened in western theology. New disciplines like anthropology and psychology were arising that made theologians and philosophers look at the world with a more horizontal than vertical gaze. Attention was moving away from God and moving to the world. As a result the doctrine of the Trinity had…
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Welcome to the Christightenment
Read more: Welcome to the ChristightenmentNote: If you are new to this series on the two-kingdoms, please take the time to read past articles. It will help you understand the issues at hand and the theological arguments in favor of the two-kingdoms approach. The church is very busy in this modern day. Busy with activities, busy with ministries, busy with…
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How Many Kingdoms? Uniting Two Crucial Ideas
Read more: How Many Kingdoms? Uniting Two Crucial IdeasGood thinking necessarily requires pulling various strands of thought into something of a poetic amalgamation. Though it is doubtful that my writing could be described as poetic (I’ll leave that to other authors on this blog), I would at least like to take a stab at the amalgamation part. For those new to the two-kingdoms…
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How Many Kingdoms? Contributions from the NT
Read more: How Many Kingdoms? Contributions from the NTWe have all heard the mantra by now. Week after week, in pulpit after pulpit, Christians are being called to renew the world that they live in. Called to “renew” or “redeem” everything from governmental structures to the very way we play sports. Leaving aside the fact that this call is often times very confusing…
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How Many Kingdoms? Finding the Source of Civil Law
Read more: How Many Kingdoms? Finding the Source of Civil LawA few weeks ago, I introduced an idea that natural law was meant to be the source from which all civil laws flowed. Thus, rather than appealing to biblical texts in order to erect judicial code, one must look to natural law. This post is my effort to establish natural law as the normative seat…
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How Many Kingdoms? Abrogation and Illegitimacy
Read more: How Many Kingdoms? Abrogation and IllegitimacyOver the past couple weeks I have attempted to lay a framework for the one-kingdom v. two-kingdom debate. I have done this by providing a brief sketch of crucial post reformation thinkers on the issue such as Abraham Kuyper and the later neo-Calvinists. Here we saw that while Kuyper was nowhere near an outright departure…