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Humans and Chimps: Some Tentative Thoughts

I’ve been reading through Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain the Key Issues (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2008), which has an appendix dealing with theistic evolutionist Francis Collins’ arguments for common ancestry between humans and chimps...

December 18, 20101 Comment

The Trinity and Arbitrariness

I used to struggle with the doctrine of the Trinity because of a feeling of arbitrariness – why 3? If God has existed from eternity past in a plurality of persons, why not 30 persons...

November 22, 20102 Comments

Justification (4): True Righteousness

When we were in Rehoboth I read Martin Luther’s Concerning Christian Liberty as part of my study on justification. As I read I kept noticing two themes: First, it is justifying faith apart from works...

September 24, 2010No Comments

Justification (3): Imputation versus Accusation

According to my understanding of classic reformed theology, justification consists of two aspects, one negative and one positive. Negatively, justification consists in the forgiveness of our sins and canceling of our guilt before God: ”...

September 17, 20103 Comments

Robert Letham’s The Holy Trinity

I’ve finished Robert Letham’s The Holy Trinity (or at least the parts of it I wanted to read), and I have to say its a fantastic book. Some thoughts: 1) One of the best things...

September 13, 20104 Comments

Threeness and Oneness: East and West

The past few weeks I’ve been chipping away at Robert Letham’s The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship (P+R, 2004). Its a fantastic book. Letham’s historical overview of the development of the doctrine...

August 23, 2010No Comments

Justification (2): Boasting

Studying the doctrine of justification is changing my life. It truly touches upon a nerve center of the Christian faith. Here is what I am seeing so far: 1. Everyone seeks justification, i.e. a rightness...

August 19, 20101 Comment

Justification (1): God

The way we approach something determines, to some extent, what we find. We approach food differently when we are hungry. We approach people differently when we are lonely. We approach sleep differently when we are...

August 17, 2010No Comments

Humanity and Deity

Read the first of John of Damascus’ Three Treatises on the Divine Images the other week as part of my pre-reformation reading. Found this an interesting statement about the incarnation: “for the nature of the...

August 17, 2010No Comments