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Charles Hodge and Properly basic beliefs
I am becoming more and more impressed by Charles Hodge’s so-called “rationalism.” Far from stultifying the gospel, Hodge’s position safeguards the reliability of “truth-speak” and if taken seriously...
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Is the original church the Dionysian Church?
I think I’ve come to the point in my theological journey where I am no longer bothered by the claim that Protestantism isn’t the original church. I’ll go further: Neither is the Dionysian Church....
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How does this seriously work as exegesis?
When I was studying the Eastern church fathers and praxis, I would come across statements that would make me cringe. I wanted to read theology and the Bible in light of “tradition” and the church, but...
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PaRDeS and the Patrum Consensus
I was reflecting on the debate between Messianic “John” and the guys at Orthodox Bridge. Of course, John won the debate catastrophically. He raised an interesting point that I want to pursue. The...
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Retractare: Israel, the promise and problem
If you ask an amillennialist (or some historic premils) how he reconciles two truths from biblical eschatology that are in tension between the already/not yet. That’s okay though the problem is...
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Passing a Peace Pipe on the Canon
I am willing to consider 1 Maccabees canonical if those High traditions concede the very point of 1 Maccabees: the complete destruction of Hellenization, which would mean, among other things, the...
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Against hyper-church hermeneutics
I am feasting on Kevin Vanhoozer’s First Theology. He is the unsung hero of Reformed Evangelicalism. He critiques those who say the church’s interpretation is what makes it right (his specific...
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The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative
Frei investigates the breakdown between story and reality, realistic and figural interpretation. His Yale post-liberal presuppositions aid his analysing German liberalism. They do not help him...
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Vanhoozer’s First Theology
Kevin Vanhoozer (KV) bases this prolegomena off of speech-act theory. He is working from several methodological presuppositions, all of which I think are sound: our understanding of God and our...
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Reading Scripture with the Fathers (Hall, review).
Before people jump to the conclusion, “He’s just a Protestant so what does he know?” please let me finish the review then you can start throwing objections and seeing what sticks. The book...
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