The term “theology” originates from the Greek words “theos,” meaning “God,” and “logos,” meaning “word,” “reason,” or “study.” From study, coursework, and life experiences, spiritual topics of interest appear here to share the content of more meaningful personal value. These topics are generally from a worldview around topics including scripture, tradition, application, history, and research and touch on personal interest and synthesis about the various branches of theology (systematics, biblical, historical, practical, and integrative).
Covenants of the Kingdom
The protoevangelium decree of the living God set in motion a covenantal framework by which intervals of overlapping and sequential promises were rendered certain along a course of their fulfillment ... Read More
On Praxis and Neglect
While Hamilton’s book reads as a commentary throughout the canon, he effectively brings to mind his overall point. The center of biblical theology as God’s glory in salvation through judgment ... Read More
Points of Illumination
Just as a matter of clarity, the practice of Biblical Theology is to understand the “theology” of biblical books or their authors in original grammatical, cultural, and historical contexts. Without ... Read More
The Mouths of Bashan
Numerous examples of prophetic usage originate from meaning within the Psalms, as illustrated in the reading this week. There are numerous connections from the Psalms to the prophets and the ... Read More
Of Continuity & Coherence
While reading through The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers again, I noted various points of interest that I found helpful. There were many excellent points I wrote out separately while ... Read More
The Well of Coherence
It is a healthy thought exercise to reflect on how the biblical writers change our perspective on Scripture. The hermeneutic of the prophets and apostles is a hermeneutic of surrender ... Read More
The Doctrine of Justification
What is justification? Or justification before God by faith? To quote, justification is "a forensic (legal) term related to the idea of acquittal, justification refers to the divine act whereby ... Read More
The Vertical Truth
In Matthew Barrett's book, The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls, contributing author Andrew Naselli makes a stratospherically important point about the centrality of Paul's theology on justification ... Read More
The Nicene Affirmation
It was entirely revealing to me that the criteria of Christ’s deity and biblical Christology are articulated in the Nicene Creed of 325 A.D. Here we have an extra-biblical document ... Read More
A Defense of Objective Truth
Truth is subjective to many people and relative to Christians and atheists alike. Subjectivism, as such, is the rejection of objective truth for a wide array of reasons. Atheists and ... Read More
The Deity of Christ
The book Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ begins with Part one, entitled "The Devotion Revolution: Jesus Shares the Honors Due to God." There ... Read More
The Triadic Contour
The interpretive grounds and soteriological purpose of the Trinity are based solely upon the authority and meaning of Scripture revealed by God as transmitted by the biblical authors. From the ... Read More
The Triadic Decision
There are distinctions between Eastern and Western doctrines of the Trinity that reveal a separation of thought about its internal relations. The Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) formations of Trinitarian ... Read More
The Triadic Vortex
This afternoon I finished reading the entirety of God in Three Persons: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Trinity (342-pages). The whole effort was time well spent because it concerns the ... Read More
The Triadic State
Throughout section three of God in Three Persons - A Contemporary Interpretation of the Trinity, Erickson offers comprehensive and compelling scriptural evidence for the Trinity as a way to understand ... Read More
