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Jeffrey A. Stivason/October 7, 2015
God After God: Jenson After Barth, Part #6
In our last post, (a while back!) I argued that Jenson had in fact compromised the creator creature distinction and I said that we would flesh that out a bit, …
Camden M. Bucey/September 29, 2015
Literal Interpretation
Have you ever discussed Biblical prophecy or eschatology with a dispensationalist who insists upon a “literal” interpretation? If so, I couldn’t recommend any higher the eighth chapter of Vern Poythress’s Understanding Dispensationalists. This …
Pierce Taylor Hibbs/September 28, 2015
Literal, Metaphorical, or Neither?
The Bible is brimming with metaphors and analogies. The sun is like a strong man running through the sky (Ps 19:5); men are like grass and their glory like the …
Camden M. Bucey/September 25, 2015
A Sermon Is Not a Listicle
You’ve seen them. They’ve taken over your Facebook timelines and Twitter feeds. They get forwarded to you on chat or through email. They’re called “listicles.” The unfortunately-named listicle is at …
Camden M. Bucey/September 24, 2015
Bavinck on the Image of God
In our treatment of the doctrine of the image of God, then, we must highlight, in accordance with Scripture and the Reformed confession, the idea that a human being does …
Camden M. Bucey/September 10, 2015
Taking the Psalter in Portions
I regularly preach lectio continua. When we start a new series at my church, we open to verse one of that book and work through it week by week, passage by …
James J. Cassidy/September 8, 2015
The Church’s Prophetic Voice
The below is a historical preamble written by the session of South Austin Presbyterian Church which explains why the church has a voice to speak to both the state …
Nathan Shannon/September 3, 2015
Prelude to a Colloquium: The Merits of Covenantal Apologetics
Looking forward to the Covenantal Apologetics Colloquium, I thought I might share some reflections on the uniqueness of Covenantal Apologetics (CA) and, in that sense, on what makes it worthy …
James J. Cassidy/August 31, 2015
Crossing Lessing’s Ugly Ditch: Karl Barth on Union with Christ
The way Barth understands the relation between eternity and time manifests itself in how he answers the theological problem of how the once and for all work of Christ on …
Erica Bucey/August 21, 2015
Covenantal Apologetics Colloquium
Call for Papers Reformed Forum is sponsoring a colloquium for the discussion of developing work in the tradition of covenantal apologetics. The Colloquium will be held online via YouTube and …
Jeffrey C. Waddington/August 13, 2015
Logos 6 Introduces Yale edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards
Logos 6 is a powerful ebook reader and search engine. A passage you remember reading but can’t quite remember where you read it is now much more easily and quickly …
Camden M. Bucey/August 10, 2015
Presbyterians of the Past Has Moved
For close to two years, we have been privileged to have Barry Waugh writing short biographies on various Presbyterians in church history. Some have been well-known, others have been forgotten. In …
Camden M. Bucey/July 23, 2015
Muller on Natural Theology
The development, in rationalist systems of the eighteenth century, of a truly foundational natural theology represents a basic alteration of perspective and a loss, not an outgrowth or further refinement, …