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A Church Father on TULIP
May 26th
“The liberty of believing or not believing is placed in free choice. In Deuteronomy, it says, ‘Look! I have set before your face life and death, good and evil. Choose for yourself life, that you may live.’”
- Cyprian, 250 AD, 5.547
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Beware of Inverting the Fundamentalist Paradigm
Mar 13th
Lots of my new people are increasingly frustrated with fundamentalist foundationalism. In rejecting what they see as rigid and foolhardy approaches to Christianity, they seek out new ways of looking at the world, new sources of authority, trying as hard as they can to escape the pitfalls of their Spiritual Elders.
However, in running from [...]
The Church and New Cultural Forms
Feb 22nd
“Part of the Christian calling is to appraise any new eth os that shapes the culture in which God calls believers to live as his people. One goal of this task is to equip the church to articulate and embody the gospel in the context of that culture.” [1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) [...]
Readings from This Semester:
Dec 20th
Total Pages: 3834
Total Pages Read: 3047
Total Reading Percentage: 79%
I actually did most of my reading this semester. My TRP is hindered mostly by two source books which contain a great many more pages than were assigned. The only book that I really skimped on was Redeeming the Routines. I just did not have the time/gumption [...]
My Statement of Faith
Dec 4th
Section I – Preamble
We hold the below to be our best understanding of the reality of God, God’s relation to creation, actions within history, and our relation to both the rest of creation and to God. We draw upon the following for our formulations: the Spirit of God speaking through the Scriptures, the wisdom of [...]
Wright on Moving Beyond the Words of Scripture
Jan 2nd
Posted by Henry Imler in Bible
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The Church can and must, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, develop words, concepts, discourse of all sorts, out beyond our narrow confines of exegesis.
That is what happened with Athanasius, holding out for the non-biblical term homoousion to express, against Arius, the radically biblical view of the divinity of Christ.
We cannot reduce the [...]