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God Understanding, God Understood, God Beloved: The Trinity in Light of the Psychological Analogy
This paper examines the biblical data underlying the psychological analogy, with special attention to the Son as Word and the Spirit as Love; it then offers a theological articulation of that analogy.
All the Seeds That Refuse to Die: Pactum Salutis (Introduction)
Behold, a Sower went out to sow. With his Son in toe, it would be the last time they spoke this side of the grave.
Ruminations & Review: Childhood & The Imagination (Part I)
A Review of Ferdinand Ulrich’s Man In The Beginning: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology of Childhood
Complaint of the Birds in the Wittenberg Wood to Luther
The following is a satirical letter written by the Reformer, Martin Luther, from the perspective of some birds.
Gathering Sticks
Gathering sticks for the hanging ferns, a sparrow on my front porch thawed herself out in the early morning silence of my coffee and recitations of the Lord's Prayer.
We Laugh in the Face of Danger
While the world runs terrified, leading to all manner of licentiousness, abuses, legalism, and all-too-serious arrogance, God’s children are those who no longer have to fear.
The Gate of the Heart: Richard Sibbes on the Imagination
The following is Chapter 13 of Richard Sibbes’ The Soul’s Conflict with Itself. The chapter is entitled “Of imagination, sin of it, and remedies for it.”
A Far Green Country: Gandalf the White and the Good News of the Inevitability of Death
At the core of the Christian gospel is not more advice, checklists, or effort, but an event. The death of death in the death of Christ!
All That God Is: John Webster and Cyril of Alexandria on Divine Aseity and Theosis
In recent years, the Church has seen a renaissance and recovery of the Classical doctrine of God. Most of this recovery has centered on doctrines like simplicity, impassibility, reactions against Eternal Subordination of the Son, and a more Classical focus on Christology.
Upon the Seeking of Lost Cattle
When seeking your lost cattle, keep in mind,
That thus Christ Jesus seeks your souls to find.
The Third Reich and a Church of Disenchantment: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Imagination as Resistance to Spiritual Abuse
The firm foundation in the face of war, the hope in the darkness of abuses of authority, is to imaginatively look back to who Christ is and to look forward to the promised blessings of sanctification.
The Parable on the Work of Ministry
The local coyote, mange-struck, found the neighbor's chickens in my yard over by the garden:
Feathers, blood, and bone, wet with dew.