“Humility” might sound like a strange attribute to predicate of God. Two recent studies suggest otherwise. Grant Macaskill’s The New Testament and Intellectual Humility is not a study of divine humility per se. Its broad concern is the nature and cultivation of humility as an intellectual virtue. Because of his commitment to theological interpretation of […]
Catalyst Conference Lectures
I had the pleasure of participating in the International Presbyterian Church’s Catalyst conference last month in London. My task was to deliver three lectures on the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 2. The audio for those lectures are posted below. The first lecture is devoted to WCF, Chapter 2, paragraph 1 on the attributes of […]
“Let no one say” (James 1:13): the translation of divine names
“Bless his holy name” (Psalm 145:3): The nature, scope, and ends of divine naming
Learning to Hymn God’s Name
How is it that a transcendent God speaks truly of Himself, indeed genuinely of Himself, in our language? The answer is that biblical discourse[s] concerning God…are anthropomorphic in nature, and they operate according to a two-fold analogical grammar…God speaks of Himself in our language: sometimes He speaks literally, sometimes He speaks metaphorically, always He speaks […]
“Our God is a consuming fire” (part three)
Introduction Hebrews 12.28 prescribes that Christian worship be grateful, awe-filled, and reverent. Hebrews 12.29 describes why Christian worship should be so: “our God is a consuming fire.” In the preceding post, we paused to consider the significance of this imagery and concluded that it presents God to us as a holy wonder, unprecedented and incomparable in his transcendent […]
