Below are three lectures presented on February 6-7 for Southern Seminary’s 2025 Julius B. Gay Lectures. Each were presented under the theme The Divine Names: Biblical Foundations of the Christian Doctrine of God. Lecture 1: The Foundations of the Divine Names Lecture 2: The Frame of the Divine Names Lecture 3: The Focus of the […]
The three ways
In its pilgrim state, theology lacks an immediate grasp of God’s nature, which is infinite, incomprehensible, and ineffable. For this reason, theology also lacks the capacity for deriving God’s attributes from God’s nature. The ways of causation, negation, and eminence provide an alternative path for identifying God that is suitable to theology’s pilgrim state. This […]
The Lord is your Keeper: Psalm 121
The attributes of God: an advent series
Retrieving the “royal metaphor”: reflections on Psalm 93
Theology is discourse concerning God: God in his being, attributes, persons, and works; God and all things in relation to God, from whom and through whom and to whom are all things (Rom 11:36). The principal subject matter of Christian theology has a proper name, “Yhwh,” which is the name of the Father and of […]
“Clothed with splendor and majesty”: reflections on the glory of the divine king
Psalm 104 celebrates God’s work of creation. It begins with a description of God’s work in creating the heavens and their inhabitants (vv. 1-4). It then moves to an extended discussion of God’s work of creating the earth and its inhabitants, including human beings, who have a special vocation as co-laborers with God in producing […]
