Reflections on Revelation (4): My overall favorite verse

I finished Revelation this morning. Perhaps my favorite passage in the whole book is 21:6b-7, which comes right in the middle of the description of the New Jersusalem. It is such a beautiful promise: To...

Reflections on Revelation (3): The Names of Jesus Christ

In my first post, I noted two theological emphases that come through very forcefully in the book of Revelation, regardless of the hermenuetical approach that one adopts in reading Revelation: (1) a high Christology and...

Reflections on Revelation (2): A Brief Introduction to Preterism

Preterism is well defined at theopedia.com as “a view in Christian eschatology which holds that some or all of the biblical prophecies concerning the Last Days refer to events which took place in the first...

Reflections on Revelation (1): why read it?

I used to avoid the book of Revelation completely. I remember in High School I did one of those read through the bible in a year projects, and for the New Testament section, I just...

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Favorite Narnia moments (3): Happy the horse

I like this passage because of the humor in Bree’s humbling, the beauty of Hwin’s response to Aslan, its good theology of the incarnation and fully humanity of Christ, and most of all, Aslan’s profound...

One thing I love about summer

Thoughts on Reading Kierkegaard

In a previous post, I argued that Kierkegaard was not an irrationalist, as he is commonly viewed. In this post I want to address a few more issues in reading and interpreting Kierkegaard. Why study...

Reflections on the Trinity (4)

Some fascinating quotes from Edwards on the Trinity, all of which I have drawn from Amy Plantinga Pauw’s The Supreme Harmony of All: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards. “God has appeared glorious to me,...