I’m looking forward to delivering the Day-Higginbotham Lectures next week at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. (For more details, see here.) The theme of the two lectures is “God, the Bible, and Being.” By way of preview, below is an excerpt from the second lecture. The excerpt focuses on the ways God’s […]
An Advent prayer
A while back, Eric Hutchinson recommended to me a nineteenth century liturgy produced by the German Reformed Church (for more details, see Eric’s posts here and here). Below is its prayer for Advent for your encouragement and edification. Almighty and everlasting God, who by the mouths of Thy prophets and holy men of old, didst […]
Redemption Accomplished: Atonement: Excerpts from the OHRT
Below is an excerpt from Chapter 29 of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology , by Kevin Vanhoozer. Dr. Vanhoozer is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has also held posts at Wheaton College Graduate School and at New College, the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. He […]
Christ: Excerpts from the OHRT
Below is an excerpt from Chapter 28 of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology , by Ivor Davidson. Dr. Davidson is Honorary Research Professor in Divinity at King’s College, University of Aberdeen. He previously held chairs in Systematic and Historical Theology at the University of Otago and the University of St Andrews. The munus triplex It was […]
Neither angel nor animal: the place of emotions in human being and wellbeing
Review: The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology, by Matthew A. LaPine “What is man?” (Ps 8:4). The psalmist’s question is not after a definition, much less a metaphysical description of human beings. His question expresses wonder at humankind’s place in the cosmos. Made “a little lower than the angels,” as the Septuagint has […]
Introducing The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology
The publication of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology in November 2020 marks the culmination of seven years of hard but joyful work. Friends warned Michael Allen and me that editing a volume of 39 chapters written by over 40 different authors would demand more of us than we could anticipate; and they were right! […]
