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There is much debate on the vexed question of whether “absolute truth” exists. Why argue that certain kinds of truth claims must be held to express absolute truths? Throughout the history of the Judeo-Christian tradition, right relationship…
Apr/01/2006
Some years ago, our family began attending a new church. One goal was to find a Sunday school class where my wife and I could study together. We joined a group for married couples in the middle of conversations about a book on learning to l…
Apr/01/2006
John Wesley prefaced his brother’s “Hymns on the Lord’s Supper” with an extract from D. Brevint’s The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice. Like Brevint, the Wesleys used the terms “sacrament” and “sacrifice” somewhat differently than we do to…
Apr/01/2006
This short essay will explore the writings of the Cappadocian fathers: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. They wrote during a time when the church was divided on many levels, much as it is today. There were theol…
Mar/01/2006
The Beginning/End of the Christian Journey
Forty days after his resurrection, on the day of his ascension, Jesus set forth the purpose and the destination of the Christian journey: “You will be my witnesses, from Jerusalem to Judea, to Sam…
Mar/01/2006
In the later part of the twentieth century the doctrine of the Trinity captured the attention of theologians more than any other doctrine, and this interest has not waned. At no time in history, since the theologically stormy days of the fo…
Mar/01/2006
We meet God at the Lord’s Table. But what is the nature of this encounter? How, in particular, can we be sure it is God we are meeting, and not simply an idol of our own construction? The transforming relationship with God that the Eucharis…
Mar/01/2006
This essay explores the fascinating era of the later Apologists and the other Ante-Nicene Fathers from the late second century up until the First Ecumenical Council (held in Nicea in 325). It is a time when the Church continues to reach out…
Feb/01/2006
Evangelical male-leadership advocates, recently self-labeled "complementarians," affirm spiritual equality, but with gender differences that lead to an exclusive male leadership in church and home (e.g., J. Piper and W. Grudem, eds., Recove…
Feb/01/2006
The OT is an emotionally charged, theologically rich, and pastorally meaningful collection of sacred writings. Sadly, many biblical scholars do not recognize it as such. With a Stoicism foreign to the Israelite mind, many talk of the OT’s c…
Feb/01/2006
Wesley saw the Lord's Supper as a means of grace. He describes "means of grace" as outward signs, words, or actions ordained of God, and appointed for this end--to be the ordinary channels whereby he might convey to men and women preventing…
Feb/01/2006
For many Protestants, the fifteen centuries between Jesus, John, and Paul on the one hand, and Luther and Calvin on the other are terra incognita, an unknown country whose existence we are scarcely aware of. Some may recognize a name or two…
Nov/01/2005
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