The Cosmic Meaning of the Prudent Wife
“I only chose to buy one pot,” proclaimed my wife, assessing her shopping trip. To set up our new life, we face the immigrant’s wall of opposition.
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The Value of Numbers
The greatest of the early theologians, Tertullian, uses ordinal numbers, showing us Trinitarian asymmetry as a reality of relationships.
An Ancient Tradition for a Modern Problem
The Modern Problem is understanding gender. The Ancient Tradition is vestigia Trinitatis. That Latin term, meaning “traces of the Trinity,” looks through the doctrine of the Trinity to see how that truth about God illumines the way the world is. The simple reasoning is, if this is the way God is, it would likely show up in how He made …
Augustine’s Costly Miss
We have much to thank the Titan of Theological Discourse for. But he missed where the Scriptures point us to picture the central truth about God.
The two-in-oneness of husband and wife expands with a child into a three-in-oneness
A long Echoing Voice The Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck, has been called the most important theologian of the twentieth century. My son and daughter in law named their dog after him, so there’s that. If you know the name, you probably associate it with his four volume Reformed Dogmatics, happily translated into English just in 2009. He was a …
Gender Out of God
While discussing head coverings, the Apostle Paul claims that all these things about gender come out of God.. How might we understand gender coming out of God?
How Jesus Identifies: As Wisdom
Jesus identifies in ways that surprise us, that we might get a glimpse of what is otherwise opaque to us—the glory of the Invisible Incomprehensible Divine.
Trinitarian Advances: In praise of Arthur Wainwright
Arthur Wainwright’s 1962 classic on the Trinity in the New Testament was something new. He asked, “What on earth were the apostolic authors thinking?”
Trinitarian Delight
Want to understand the Trinity of God more deeply and clearly? British Trinitarian Theologian, Michael Reeves is that most wonderful of all things, a theologian with a sense of humor. His book brings a cheerful clarity and an appreciation of how God’s internal relationships can inform and inspire our own.
“Let us…”’ Unveil God
In his passionate 2013 book, Fully Alive, page 35, Larry Crabb makes a highly significant point. He notes how, when God created us in Genesis 1:26, The Creator said, “Let us make man in our image.” As Dr. Crabb points out, “it is only when God made male and female human beings that he introduced Himself as persons-in-community.” In other …