Posted in A Common Word, Antithesis, Apologetics, Christology, Cornelius Van Til, Cross and Crescent, Doctrine of God, Epistemology, Ethics, Ex Pacto, Geerhardus Vos, Herman Bavinck, John Calvin, John Frame, Love, Metaethics, Miroslav Volf, Pilgrim Praxis, Research Papers, Richard Gaffin, Synthesis, Systematic Theology, tagged Christianity, Reformed, religion, covenant, Islam, trinity on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Abstract
My papers evaluate Dr. Miroslav Volf’s publications and lectures related to A Common Word. In the epistemology paper I examine Volf’s arguments for a shared monotheism between Christianity and Islam, asking, “By what norm can one determine whether Muslims believe in the same monotheistic God as Christians?” In the ethics paper I explore Volf’s love [...]
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Posted in Biblical Theology, Book Reviews, Geerhardus Vos, Herman Ridderbos, Hermeneutics, Preaching, Scripture, tagged Christianity, Reformed, religion on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I really enjoyed reading Graeme Goldsworthy’s Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture for two main reasons:
First, he does a good job at introducing the basics of biblical theology ( i.e. What is BT? What does it look like? Why is it important?) in a non-technical way and with an eye for why BT [...]
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Posted in Biblical Theology, Doctrine of God, Eschatology, Geerhardus Vos, Semper Reformanda, Worship, tagged Christianity, God, Luthernism, Reformed on January 31, 2007 | No Comments »
It was different [in contrast to Lutheranism] with the Reformed. They, too, felt the same necessity to leave the waves of Rome’s salvation by works and once again stand on solid ground. But beside and behind this necessity there lay a deeper longing: a thirst for the glory of God that did not primarily meditate [...]
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Posted in Ex Pacto, Geerhardus Vos, Prolegomena, Semper Reformanda, Systematic Theology, tagged Christianity, cosmology, covenant, glory, Reformed on January 30, 2007 | No Comments »
While tracing the rich historical development of the Reformed doctrine of the covenant, Geerhardus Vos zooms out to scan the big picture and asks, “To what, then, does one attribute the fact that from the beginning this concept of the covenant appears so much in the foreground of Reformed theology?” Vos’ answer? Christian cosmology demands [...]
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