The Dispatch of Antiquity
The significance of communication within the early church within Asia-minor can not be overstated. As there were numerous nationalities, languages, cultures, traditions, and religious commitments within the Greco-Roman empire located further East of Rome, the …
The Apostolic Burden
When thinking through Paul’s teachings to the church at Corinth in the first century, about the resurrection body (1 Cor 15), there are corresponding principles about purity (1 Cor 6-7) that concern the church today …
The Waters of Contention
In the 1980s, when the notion “New Perspective of Paul” (NPP) was first offered, it intended to reinterpret the soteriological meaning of Apostle Paul’s writings. To shape differently an understanding of justification by faith to …
The Birth of an Empire
The primary reasons for Apostle Paul’s writing to the Romans are diverse and numerous. There are four that appear to carry the most widespread recognition. The main proposals are as follows: a. Theological Treatise – …
Traces of a Saint
The NT epistles are authoritative by their substance, purpose, and structure. The character of NT letters is personal, not private. They’re not secret and intended to be shared even if directed to a church or …
The Holiness of Saints
From collecting various thematic pericopes around the subject of holiness, it was of interest to further narrow this state of being toward people who are believers in Christ. Just as it is necessary to understand …
The Holiness of God
In preparation for a time of in-depth study on sanctification, I intend to complete a series of posts about various readings and the gathering of research materials concerning the subject. The posts on biblical holiness …
The Ordis Saeculum
The State and secular liberalism have an insatiable appetite for power to form policies, crave resources, shape humanistic social values, and largely cater to predatory economies, corporations, and institutions. Churches and religious conventions throughout Christendom …
To Know and Love God
The following are chapter notes in the form of questions and answers that cover the subject matter of the book, “To Know and Love God.” The book is a monograph from David Clark and it …
Contours of Particularity
People’s religious convictions inform their social, cultural, and political perspectives and preferences. What people highly care about is significantly influenced by what they believe, either through faith or humanistic concern. Even secular people have religious …
The Pluralistic Hypothesis
“The Pluralistic Hypothesis” is a chapter in a book entitled An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent by John Hick. It concerns a defense of religious pluralism from a secular perspective. John Hick …
The Unquenchable Thirst
Without guiding moral principles centered upon objective truth, political and social interests invariably serve a social and individual thirst for power, resources, wealth, and survival. In a fallen and sinful world of decay, selfishness, violence, …
Vatican II & the Aggiornamento
Apparently, the Roman Catholic Church places little comparative weight upon the authority of Scripture as the apostolic, prophetic, and patriarchal witness to worship, the covenant proclamations, and obligations of God’s people. It emphasizes tradition, philosophy, …
Totality of Self-Transcendence
The theology of transcendental Thomism in the 20th-century is a fascinating course of study among Catholics of the 19th and 20th-century. They more meaningfully sought to engage tradition and culture at large. The impetus of …
Barth & Bonhoeffer
The theologies of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer bring about an experience of wider knowledge concerning 20th-century theologians who were thought leaders in the arena of faith, freedom, and truth. The background and contribution of …
