Reading the Canon

One thing I have been trying to understand is how the expectation for a Davidic ruler unfolds and develops throughout the Old Testament. To this end I picked up Stephen Dempster’s Dominion and Dynasty, which...

Do I fear sin more than looking stupid?

This is a very illuminating question to ask: Am I more afraid of looking foolish before people, or acting sinfully before the Lord? Isaiah 66:2: “But this is the one to whom I will look:...

Can Science Replace God?

A common argument from certain contemporary secular voices is that science has, or at least will, replace the need for God. The more science advances in explaining the universe, the less need there is for...

Personalized Praise

“Each of the redeemed shall forever know and praise some one aspect of the divine beauty better than any other creature can. Why else were individuals created, but that God, loving all infinitely, should love...

The Cross’ Revelation

“In the central event of the cross, biblically considered, all of God’s attributes – which are one – shine forth in one way or another.” Henri Blocher, “God and the Cross,” in Engaging the Doctrine...

In order to aim at truth

“In order to swim one strips oneself naked – in order to aim at the truth one must undress in a much more inward sense, one must take off the inward clothing of thoughts, ideas,...

Barth on Calvin

I love the way Barth describes his struggle with Calvin. I know something of this delightful feeling, when you encounter a new thinker and he blows you out of the water. He wrote in a...

Haggling

Trinity and Aseity

John Webster on how the doctrine of Trinity saves us from a merely negative, functional definition of divine aseity: “Aseity is not to be defined merely in negative terms, as the mere absence of origination...