Theology
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A Postmillennial Primer: Basics of Optimistic Eschatology
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𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 Turns 100
“A century has not relaxed the battle-lines of a robust, orthodox, confrontational biblical Faith on the one hand and all accommodationist revisions on the other, whether in church or culture.” Read it here. Continue reading
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Closing the Book(s) on 2022
The delights of fear, the ills of illiberals, and the buttress of creation Read the article here. Continue reading
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The Dialectical God, the Static God, or the Covenantal God?
Three views of God. Only one is correct. Watch video here. Continue reading
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The Pleroma of the Son
Introduction Sin unleashed nothingness into the world. The Edenic world was brim-filled and overflowing with the goodness, righteousness, and joy of God actuated by creation’s mediator, God’s only Son. The creation account speaks of “filling” the earth and its “abundance.” God-ness drenched everything (though, of course, not in a pantheistic sense). Sin introduced cosmic rebellion.… Continue reading
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False Antinomy: Jesus’ Kingdom Gospel Versus Paul’s Salvation Gospel
Jesus’ victorious Satan-crushing gospel = Paul’s cross-and-resurrection salvation gospel. Read the post here. Continue reading
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Christian Worldview Versus Gnosticism, Escapism, Pietism, and Defeatism
Alien worldviews in the church have rendered it impotent against an unbelieving cultural onslaught. Listen here. Continue reading
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Prayer Changes Things, and Prayer Changed Me
A short autobiographical message on the power of prayer to change a life. Listen here. Also: One striking difference between our Christian forebears and us is their repeated emphasis on prayer and our comparative de-emphasis of it. They prayed frequently and fervently. We pray infrequently and languidly. They called prayer meetings. We call staff meetings.… Continue reading
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Cultural Bipolar Disorder
Rebuilding Christian culture demands restoring the multi-polar society. Continue reading
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The Collision Course of Christian Exclusivity
“What has changed over my lifetime is the self-consciousness of Leftists and secularists. They can no longer peacefully coexist with Christians. As in imperial Rome, Christians must go.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Allegiant Baptism
Introduction Few topics generate more theological debate with less productivity than baptism. I observed recently a reignition on social media of the baptist-paedobaptist dispute; and as nearly always, it included unnecessary heat and very little light. I’ve been on both sides of that debate in my life, and I’ve rarely seen a different, more gracious… Continue reading
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New Book — Defend the Faith: Christian Warfare for Our Time
The Christian life is a battle, and battles presuppose enemies. The chief enemy of Christians is Satan (and demonic spirits aligned with him [Eph. 6:12]), but a leading strategy in thwarting God’s earthly kingdom is his enlisting humans to assist him. This diabolical strategy started in Eden. The Bible assumes that the true Faith will… Continue reading
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Brian G. Mattson on Classical Theism, Critical Race Theory, and N. T. Wright
Brian G. Mattson is a public theologian, Senior Scholar of Public Theology for the Center for Cultural Leadership as well as Adjunct Professor of Systematic and Public Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, has written several books, and lectures on theology and culture. CCL: One of the hot theological topics the… Continue reading
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Realized Religion : Victory Already, Before the “Not Yet”
“One of the most prominent errors in the history of the church is postponing massive blessings of creation and the gospel to the eternal state. If the liberal churches wish to re-situate all the blessings in the ‘already’ (since they have no actual eternal hope, and often turn to revolutionary politics for salvation), conservative churches… Continue reading
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Gnostic Funerals
“Funerals are a gauge of the impact of Gnosticism in Christianity. Underlying the Gnostic attitude in modern Christian funerals is the most troubling assumption of all: a theology of escape.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Gospel or Salvation?
Many Christians calls themselves “evangelical,” but actually they’re soterians. They’re not Gospel Christians, but soteriological Christians. These two aren’t the same. Read the article here. Continue reading
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The Degeneration into Political Soteriology
“This insurrection is sometimes called ‘conservative counter-revolution,’ but it never is. It claims to be restoring the moral order overturned by Leftists, but it is actually an attempt to reverse the new Leftist (dis)order after assimilating the revolutionary gains — and strategies — of Leftism. It is a variant of revolution whose eyes are hidden to… Continue reading
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Christmas: Excarnation Versus Incarnation
This Advent and Christmas season we celebrate the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Incarnation literally denotes enfleshment. The eternal Son of God assumed humanity as a babe in Bethlehem in order to grow to adulthood and die for the sins of the world. This death and subsequent resurrection, the source of our salvation, presuppose… Continue reading
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The Post-Resurrection Gospel Presupposes the Pre-Resurrection Kingdom
The reason that the life and message of Jesus Christ portrayed in the gospel accounts, particularly the Synoptics, seem so far removed from the post-resurrection Gospel of Paul and the other apostles to our thinking is that we wrongly see a chasm between the kingdom of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The former… Continue reading