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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We Christians get into trouble when we forget the context in which we still live–we are not yet in heaven. Until then, we sojourn in this present evil age. Accordingly, we must constantly tear down false expectations of perfect completeness, the absence of sin, brokenness, and pain, etc., even in the relationships and activities of [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Hebrews, Hebrews 11, John Calvin, New Testament, Old Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Psalm 16, Psalter, Sacra Scriptura, Sanctification, Sola Fide, tagged Christianity, faith, Reformed on February 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I am currently preparing for my first “practice” sermon due in my preaching lab this spring semester at seminary. My assigned text is Hebrews 11:3, and as I’ve been pondering the surrounding few verses I find myself awed by the “in-your-face-ness” of faith: the kind of faith that makes you a fool to the world [...]
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Calvin’s estimation of the importance of the Psalter carries weighty implications for those seeking to know God: “In short, as calling upon God is one of the principal means of securing our safety, and as a better and more unerring rule for guiding us in this exercise cannot be found elsewhere that in The Psalms, [...]
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Perhaps we (trying not to be) “Calvinless Calvinists” are among an emerging throng of “Young and Restless” Calvinists.
Good news indeed; although, it would have been nice to read that these newbies are reading Calvin himself instead of relying on second- and third-hand interpretations, Edwards and Piper respectively. But such a wish might be asking for [...]
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I live in a a growing generation of Calvinists who have never read Calvin. (Do I have fancy stats to back up such a claim? No. I’m basing this rant on my admittedly limited experience at a prominent Reformed seminary and two mid-sized Reformed churches. I invite you to see for yourself whether my experience [...]
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