“Whatever is true of Christ is true of humanity.”
Today we chat with Dr. Ross Hastings, author of “The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Exploring Its Theological Significance and Ongoing Relevance” and nuance and discuss the implications of the Resurrection. We touch on everything from Atonement models, sanctification, the favor of God to the Cultural Mandate, Participation and Union. D.r Hastings brings in Torrance, Barth, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, Augustine and provides a helpful big picture of the history of Jesus and how His history becomes ours.
Common grace is usually associated with the Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper. Henry Van Til even described him as the theologian of common grace. Yet it was Herman Bavinck who first to developed the doctrine theologically. Kuyper later produced three volumes on it (1904 onwards). But Bavinck, in his rectoral address at Kampen University in 1894, was the catalyst for this Dutch revival of a doctrine that was implicit but undeveloped in Calvin.
Are we Human Beings or Human Doings?
Join us as we sit down with Michael Holmes, author of A Theology of the Christian Life: Imitating and Participating in God, as we discuss the nitty gritty of the Christian life. Questions like, should my busy wife be reading Theological books? Do we over-emphasize the Second person of the Trinity at the expense of the First? How does one “experience” God? All this and more.
The introduction of Neo-Calvinism to South Korea can be traced back to Dr. Hyung-Ryong Park (1897-1978). Dr. Hyung-Ryong Park studied at Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States from 1923 to 1926 and received a Th.B. and Th.M. degree. After grating these degrees, he earned a Ph.D. at Southern Theological Baptist Seminary in the United States in focusing on Christian Apologetics. After returning to South Korea, Dr. Park developed theology centering on the theology of Herman Bavinck and Louis Berkhof...
How the Gospel is deep enough & wide enough for all your hopes & fears
Most Christians around me seem to be answering questions that nobody is asking. Christianity seems more to answer the question of a damned-soul and ethical living rather than scratching our most felt needs like: longing for romance, acclaim, self-confidence, and so on. Does God really care about those things because it seems the NT is chiefly concerned with Jew/gentile relations and helping Christians to get along. In what ways does the Gospel address my “secular” hopes and fears? Is everything a “Gospel issue”? Join us as we sit down with Dr. Daniel Strange...
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A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
Dr. Sandra Richter speaks all manner of ancient languages, has a doctorate from Harvard, is a professor, an archeologist, a leading voice in academic theological and historical discussions, and she wants to help normal Christians read and understand the Old Testament. Dr. Richter is the author of the heavily circulated...
Father as “Not Begotten” – Son as “Begotten” – Spirit as “Spirating”
Join us as we sit down with the Trinity powerhouse Dr. Matthew Barrett author of “Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit” (Baker). Dr. Barrett has done the heavy lifting for us in reviewing the last 2,000 years of making sense of the Trinity and how it functions, while...
Hearts & Minds Bookstore A Place for Everyone
“Somewhere in central Pennsylvania there is a warm and inviting labyrinth called Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Byron and Beth Borger, the caretakers of Hearts & Minds, have worked there tirelessly for over three decades to create a space for serious, reflective readers. The Borgers are committed to helping their customers...
"The Lutheran Option" Pt. 2
In part 2 of our interview with Lutheran/Country Music/Vocation powerhouse, Dr. Gene Veith, we chat country-music Christians (did you know Lyle Lovett and Kris Kristofferson are Lutherans?! Did you know Loretta Lynn’s had a home, now abandoned, in Hawaii a few miles from my house?!) – what do we do...
Attempting to Apply a Mystery to Daily Life
Join us as we sit down with Trinity-nuance master Fred Sanders and bombard him with questions on all things Father, Son and Spirit. Dr. Sanders is the author/editor of “The Third Person of the Trinity Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics”, the modern classic “The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity...
What hath Wittenberg and Geneva to do with Constantinople
“It is the stability of thought in Orthodox theology that has generated the greatest interest from my Protestant students, primarily because of their often-new realization that there still exists a “predenominational” and Apostolic Christian worldview that is largely unaffected by the polemical debates of the Reformation. In fact, many of...
by Dave B. Hegeman
Rookmaaker's impact on artists can be summed up in the words of Peter Smith. Remembering the Dutchman's first visit to Birmingham College of Art in 1967, he confided that, "I was considering leaving Fine Art for pietist reasons but a late night discussion with Rookmaaker kept me painting." A single evening of...
Fuel for Ethics from WWJD? Fake it ‘til You Make it? “Kingdom”? Gratitude? Imitation? or Creation?
“As Bavinck works out the concrete content of his ethics in this volume (Reformed Ethics Volume 2), he joins the long tradition of Reformed ethicists and turns to the Decalogue and the notion of duty. That move could be disconcerting for some who have recently turned to the “kingdom ethics”...
A Glimpse Into “Holy Worldliness” Across the Globe
“The flourishing of one individual requires the flourishing of schools and families, courts and businesses, artist guilds and sports teams, newspapers and unions, churches and sewer systems. Public theologians therefore refuse to narrow their theological conception of flourishing to just the political, the economic, the spiritual, or the aesthetic. Instead,...