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Category: Theology

Ready Player Two: More Gnosticism and the Communion of Saints

Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was a best-seller a handful of years ago and then became a blockbuster movie. Fun, full of clever pop-culture references,

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August 2, 2021 No Comments

The New Creation and Judgment

The New Creation begins with a climactic event (not cosmic evolution or human progress), the eschatological judgment of all creation. God is directing his actions

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June 21, 2021 No Comments

Remembering Geoffrey Wainwright

One of the truly poignant dimensions of the global pandemic has been its effect on how we accompany, mourn, and remember the dead. Often we

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March 1, 2021 No Comments

Contemporary Systematic Theology: An Embarrassment of Riches

In The Architecture of Theology (Oxford University Press, 2011), a must-read for any serious student of systematic theology, A. N. Williams observes that while Christian

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January 11, 2021 No Comments

The Power of the Apparent Powerless

Because my mother died at a relatively young age, my main link to her family came through my great aunt, Flossie Johnson. I became close

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December 9, 2020 No Comments

The Psalms as a School of Theology

What is theology? This is usually the first question I ask my students in my systematic theology course at Fuller Seminary. Their answers typically revolve

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November 4, 2020 No Comments

Tired of Gnosticism

Like everyone else in higher education this year, I am teaching classes at least in part through a digital medium. My own institution is doing

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October 5, 2020 No Comments

On Words (and Monuments) and Meaning

Our language is built on the sediment and rubble of the dead meanings of words. Take the word influenza, which today means “a dangerous respiratory

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September 7, 2020 No Comments

Reading Job during a Pandemic

I have been reading the Book of Job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Uncertainty, upheaval, and disruption of human life stimulates people to ask questions during

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August 17, 2020 1 Comment

Reading the Scriptures with Nat Turner

I was deeply convicted about my provincial ways of reading scripture recently by a work of fiction—William Styron’s 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Confessions of

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July 27, 2020 No Comments
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