Advent and Christmastide beckon Christians to reflect on the first coming of Christ as we long for his return. We are situated in the time between, with a new life and reality defined by the events of Bethlehem and Golgotha and in anticipation of Christ’s parousia. As we think of Christ’s Incarnation in this time […]
Why does the church and the average congregant need the work of the theologian? And how might the theologian seek to bless the church in general? Ideally, scholars in general seek to understand the truth about reality. The Christian scholar, in particular, pursues understanding about God and His creation through a disciplined exercise of intellect […]
*** Eerdmans | 2021 | 366 pages (hardcover) | $50.00 John Webster has been called “the theologian’s theologian” for his incisive style and project of “theological theology,” which responds to the revelation of the Triune God in faithful speech and action. Theology in the hands of Webster is always a vital act, coram Deo, marked […]
Tuesday, 01 March, 2022 by KJ Drake
The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian TheologyBy Adonis ViduEerdmans, 2021368 pages (hardback), $50.00 Adonis Vidu endeavors to offer a fully orbed definition and defense of the inseparable operations of the Triune God. The doctrine of inseparable operations has been a steadfast rule in Trinitarian theology since the patristic period with […]
Monday, 01 November, 2021 by KJ Drake
It is often said that the turn to the subject occurred with Descartes’s ponderous musing on his existence. And despite his intentions to ground knowledge in a firmer foundation, Descartes’s move from “I think therefore I am” to the existence of God resulted in, through the twists of intellectual history, the popular dislocation of the […]
Christmas is a time to wonder at the mystery that is the Incarnation – that the eternal Son took our flesh without ceasing to be who he essentially is. That is the mystery of Bethlehem, the Creator of space and time entered into his own Creation without ceasing to transcend it as Lord. This is […]