24 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Having now completed our survey of the Old Testament, extracanonical Jewish Literature, and New Testament texts, we have demonstrated that natural law is woven deeply into the fabric of biblical teaching, especially the notion of an objective order for the universe, including a moral order, framed by God and discernible by...
Read more → 23 May 2013
Posted by Joseph Minich 
Giving a mixed review of Bavinck on natural law and the two kingdoms, David VanDrunen recently wrote, Though a complete account is more complex, a good general argument can be made, I believe, that his defense of the natural law and the two kingdoms categories belongs to the orthodox Bavinck and his advocacy...
Read more → 22 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
In a 1996 book review, Jonathan Wells explains that Charles Hodge's critique of Darwinism was made on exclusively philosophical and theological grounds: A modern reader might be surprised to learn that Hodge was not a biblical fundamentalist who defended a literal interpretation of Genesis. Although...
Read more → 22 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Our friends at the Post-Reformation Digital Library have pointed out this excellent collection of Heidelberg Catechisms from the Utrecht library. The website has a helpful historical summary of how the Heidelberg came about, as well as information about its subsequent editions. Be sure to check out the real...
Read more → 21 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Written by the associate of the apostle Paul, Clement to Corinth focuses largely on trying to restore order to a church suffering from disharmony. Along the way, Clement makes what is essentially an appeal to natural law: 19. Accordingly, the humility and subordination of so many and such great men of renown...
Read more → 16 May 2013
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
This post is something of a lark, apropos (maybe?) of some of Peter's recent writings on nature and supernature, and also (maybe?) of Steven's on Adam and evolution. There is a stream, which can be called progressivist, in the Greek mythic tradition in which man as originally constituted was lacking...
Read more → 13 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
In a Facebook thread, Dr. Peter Enns offered this summary of my essay on the historical Adam: "A rather long-winded piece that says what others are saying in defense of a historical Adam: 'We are literalists, and without Adam our theology falls apart; Therefore, Adam must exist.'" He continued throughout...
Read more → 12 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Jewish extracanonical literature, including but not limited to the Apocrypha, provides the context and background which formed the mental furniture of the first hearers of the NT. It also provides the earliest example of how the OT (discussed in my previous post) was interpreted with regards to our subject...
Read more → 11 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
My post entitled "The Myth of the Ecumenical Early Church" was actually taken from a paraphrase of a paper I wrote while in seminary in 2007. As a part of the assignment, my paper had to present a "problem" in church history and leave the resolution open-ended. This was not intended to question the resolution...
Read more → 10 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Modern evangelicalism has always had something of an identity problem. Wanting to be neither Fundamentalism nor Liberalism, it has often found itself unable to sit comfortably in the middle. More often than not, and sometimes with a bit of pressure from either side, it ends up swinging back and forth...
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