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Camden M. Bucey/January 17, 2018
We do not often speak of meekness. We might be hard pressed even to define it. Meekness is not weakness; it’s a measured strength, a control over wrath. It is…
James J. Cassidy/January 15, 2018
In The New Modernism Van Til identifies the Theology of Crisis with “dialectical theology.” But what is dialectical theology? Van Til explains that dialectical theology is…
James J. Cassidy/January 8, 2018
Moving on from Van Til’s first published criticism of Barth (see the previous six posts entitled In The Beginning ) we now consider his first published monograph…
Camden M. Bucey/January 1, 2018
Archaeologists working in Israel’s Western Wall Plaza have unearthed a “docket,” or clay impression of a seal from לשר העיר (“[belonging] to the governor of the city”). The identity of this…
Pierce Taylor Hibbs/December 23, 2017
Currently, amidst the Reformed discussion concerning God’s simplicity and immutability, there has been repeated references to the anthropomorphic language of Scripture. It is commonly understood that language attributing human emotions…
Camden M. Bucey/December 19, 2017
Matthew 5:1–16 are known as the Beatitudes, which stems from the Latin term used in the translation of these verses. A beatitude is a declaration of blessing and a statement…
James J. Cassidy/December 18, 2017
At long last we have come to the end of the beginning (see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ). We have reviewed Van Til’s opening salvo against Barth’s theology…
Tracey Shannon/December 16, 2017
“We are living in a time when being ordinary is the worst thing that can happen to a person, and nothing screams ordinary like at-home work.” (p.41) Thus says Courtney…
Camden M. Bucey/December 15, 2017
In 2006, I had been attending a non-denominational evangelical church largely influenced by John MacArthur and the Master’s Seminary. The church placed a heavy emphasis on the inerrancy of the…
Daniel Ragusa/December 14, 2017
The Lord does not breathe into man the breath of life for him to exist in the abstract, nor for him to struggle to find purpose through some existential crisis;…
Camden M. Bucey/December 12, 2017
Matthew 5:1–3 begins the Sermon on the Mount. The Bible does not use that title. Augustine (354–430 ad ) seems to have given Matthew 5–7 this name. Jesus went up…
Camden M. Bucey/December 10, 2017
Each presbytery meeting, we usually have the opportunity to examine candidates for licensure and ordination.As you’d expect, these exams cover important topics pertaining to the doctrine of Scripture, theology proper,…
James J. Cassidy/December 4, 2017
Van Til now turns to Barth’s doctrine of creation. Barth denies that creation as it came forth from the hand of God was good, and was to have…
Daniel Ragusa/December 2, 2017
Life—understood biblically as the enjoyment of the covenant communion bond with God in a holy kingdom—is brought into close association with God’s word from the beginning. It was Adam’s response…
Cornelius Van Til, Karl Barth/November 24, 2017
As we continue to unpack Van Til’s review of Zerbe’s book we come to the second part of the review, which concerns Barth’s epistemology. Van Til opens with an…
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