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A Biblical Theology of the Imago Dei

I finished Stephen Dempster’s Dominion and Dynasty today, which is a great little book for understanding the Old Testament as one, continuous story. The greatest thing it helped me to see is that creation in...

April 19, 20102 Comments

Torrance on the Ascension

Torrance’s section on the ascension in Atonement is very interesting. He discusses the extra-Calvinisticum at length and how particular understandings of space-time have hindered people from accepting it. But then he connects the incarnation and...

March 30, 2010No Comments

Lewis on the Satanic Fall and Corruption of Nature (again)

In my previous series of posts arguing that the Satanic fall may be the explanation for the fallenness of nature, I quoted C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain, chapter 9, “On Animal Pain.” While listening...

March 30, 2010No Comments

Dempster on Genesis 5:3

I’ve found some corroboration on how to read Genesis 5:3, a verse that has been perplexing me for the last year and a half: “When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in...

March 29, 2010No Comments

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (14)

I have been reading, and greatly benefiting from, the chapters on the resurrection in Thomas F. Torrance, Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ, which is drawn from his lectures which formed the basis of...

March 24, 2010No Comments

Resurrection Power

Probably the greatest thing I have learned from my study on the resurrection thus far is: by the Holy Spirit, the resurrection is at work in the Christian’s life through our union with Christ. I...

March 18, 20101 Comment

The Son of God

I’ve been growing lately in my understanding of how the term “son of God” is used across the canon. In the beginning, God creates Adam in his image to represent him and rule creation (Genesis...

March 13, 20101 Comment

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...

March 8, 2010No Comments

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (13)

“The parallelism between Christ and the believer is not simply one of similarity. It is that, but more than that. The resurrection of the believer is regarded primarily as the effect of the resurrection of...

March 2, 2010No Comments