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Monthly Archives: February 2017
Gospel, Mortal Sin, and the Search for Assurance
The problem with mortal sin is that it’s so damned mortal. It scares me—as it rightly should. Mortal sin is nothing less than a state of spiritual death and impenitence. I know that the reason I was initially drawn to … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Justification & Theosis, Preaching
Tagged assurance, faith, gospel, J. I. Packer, John Calvin, justification by faith, Martin Luther, mortal sin
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God is Different Because of the World
Norris Clarke is clear—he does not seek a repristination of the metaphysics of St Thomas Aquinas. He speaks, rather, of a “creative retrieval”; and some of his views can be pretty creative, at least by Thomist standards. Consider Clarke’s position … Continue reading
“We walk in the air of an eternal fatherhood”
Think, brothers, think, sisters, we walk in the air of an eternal fatherhood. Every uplifting of the heart is a looking up to The Father. Graciousness and truth are around, above, beneath us, yea, in us. When we are least … Continue reading
Beyond the Submlime: The Aesthetics of the Analogy of Being
Posted in Philosophical Theology
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Analogy of Being: Knowing God in Similarity within Dissimilarity
How is it possible to speak meaningfully of the infinite and transcendent God? By definition he is not an object of our sensible, perhaps not even of our intellectual, experience; yet human language is grounded in our experience of the … Continue reading
