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Austin Reed/May 10, 2015

[Review] Reading Barth with Charity: A Hermeneutic Proposal by George Hunsinger

The doctrine of election is the sum of the Gospel because of all words that can be said or heard it is the best. CD II/1, 3 In a recent …

Camden M. Bucey/May 8, 2015

Gaffin Speaks about Translating Vos’ Reformed Dogmatics

Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. recently sat down with FaithLife, makers of Logos Bible Software, to speak about the efforts to translate Geerhardus Vos’s Reformed Dogmatics. Watch the video at …

Jared Oliphint/May 4, 2015

No Such “Thing” As Grace

The term “grace” can sometimes take on a use that, in a seemingly harmless way, treats it as an object in and of itself; a valuable commodity for walking the …

Nathaniel Sutanto/April 23, 2015

In an article discussing the theology of Albert Ritschl, Herman Bavinck writes that throughout history Christian theology “fashioned for herself a philosophy or appropriated an existing one such that as that …

Camden M. Bucey/April 22, 2015

A Theological Tree of Life

... all eschatological interpretation of history, when united to a strong religious mentality cannot but produce the finest practical theological fruitage. To take God as source and end …

Camden M. Bucey/April 21, 2015

Chris Castaldo on Disagreements over the Catholic Church

Evangelicals who otherwise agree on issues of doctrine are often at great variance over the question of how to view the Catholic Church. —Chris Castaldo, Talking with Catholics about the …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/April 20, 2015

Pastoral Lessons from My Betters, Part 4

It was in the fall of the year 2000. My professor had strolled rather awkwardly into the classroom with a very large stack of papers cradled in his arm. He …

James J. Cassidy/April 20, 2015

Is Karl Barth Neo-Orthodox?

Barth’s theology, fairly early on, received the label “neo-orthodox.” Barth himself rejected the label (CD III.3, xii). It is regarded by some today as a misnomer. As early as 1972, …

Camden M. Bucey/April 17, 2015

The Centrality of the Incarnation

Let us take a moment to consider our habits of speech. We often talk, for instance, about trusting the finished work of Christ rather than the living person of Christ …

James Baird/April 13, 2015

God, Propositions, and Necessary Existence

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). For centuries Christians have taken this Bible verse to teach the doctrine of creation ex nihilo. Before the …

Nathan Shannon/April 7, 2015

Redemptive History and the Attributes of Scripture

Nature and Scripture, or general and special revelation, are a unit. By the Lord’s design, they are mutually informative. Accordingly, one’s conceptions of the purpose and significance of Scripture imply …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/April 6, 2015

Pastoral Lessons from My Betters, Part 3

Benjamin B. Warfield once said that the Reformation “inwardly considered, was just the ultimate triumph of Augustine’s doctrine of grace over Augustine’s doctrine of the Church.” [1] Warfield, as …

James J. Cassidy/April 1, 2015

A Place for Rapprochement? Barth, Bavinck, and Van Til on Prolegomena

Eberhard Busch describes Barth’s approach to theological prolegomena: he saw the prolegomena as being a first step into the subject-matter itself, bringing about a first clarification of what revelation was …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/March 30, 2015

Pastoral Lessons from My Betters, Part #2

By the fourth year of my first church plant the congregation was in financial jeopardy. Members of my denomination’s Home Mission Board had informed me with all solemnity that it …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/March 16, 2015

Pastoral Lessons from My Betters, Part 1

I was sinking fast. It was my third year of church planting and I was having one of those “seminary didn’t prepare me for this!” moments. If memory serves me, …