Sinning out of Love and Virtue; John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Divine beyond Love and Virtue
While theologians like the ones I just mentioned differed on the details, they all agreed that Adam, as the representative of humanity, bore the responsibility for sin, as Paul articulated … Continue reading
Letter to a Struggling Gay Christian by Augustus Nicodemus Gomes Lopes
The following extract was taken from an article published on The Gospel Coalition which I thought was one of the very few pieces capable of grasping the Augustinian doctrine of … Continue reading
Should We Pay our Pastors?
Ministers struggle between commitments to a self-sacrificial calling on the one hand and providing for their families on the other. Congregations want to attract capable leaders and keep them, while … Continue reading
“The Bible Says…” Infallibility versus Inerrancy
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able … Continue reading
We all Behave like Sola Scriptura is True, Whether we Admit it or Not
No matter what we actually say, we all behave as if Sola Scriptura is true. This is obvious in that there is a qualitative difference how we treat the words … Continue reading
Warnings Against the “High Church” Temptation; The Ambiguity of the “Interpretative Community” and the Task of Protestant Hermeneutic: A Reply to Joel Gn’s “Apologies”
While I am in substantial agreement with Joel Gn on his analysis of the problem with Evangelicalism and Rev. Kong’s hermeneutical posture of reducing theology to pure praxis and reading … Continue reading
On Apologies & the Demise of Theology by Joel Gn
The following is a guest post by my friend Joel Gn, writing in response to the latest issue with regards to Reverend Kong of City Harvest Church. And so it … Continue reading
Christ the Son of Mary, According to her “Sinful” Flesh? A Protestant Mariology and Solution to a Medieval Problem
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the … Continue reading
Deus Ex Machina 