Category Archives: Theology

The Sinner and the Victim

Posted on 12 December 2019 by
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Preaching the Gospel of Predestination

Posted on 20 October 2019 by

How can the Church recover the preaching of predestination? It seems an impossibility. When treated abstractly, as an explanation of why some are saved and others are not, predestination must always function as an existential threat to our personhood and … Continue reading →

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The Unpreachability of Predestination

Posted on 1 October 2019 by

When was the last time you heard a sermon preached on election and predestination? In thirty-plus years of priestly ministry I think I may have preached on it once. Christian pastors simply do not preach on it; and it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Why is Presdestination Missing in Action?

Posted on 30 September 2019 by

Something is wrong with traditional formulations of the doctrine of divine predestination. For over fifteen hundred years, the theologians of the Church—Origen, St Augustine of Hippo, St John of Damascus, St Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Luis de Molina, Domingo Báñez, … Continue reading →

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Fr Stephen Freeman and the Dynamics of Salvation

Posted on 22 August 2019 by
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The Meaning of Protestant Theology

Posted on 12 August 2019 by

by Phillip Cary, Ph.D. When Rodney Clapp, the editor to whom I pitched the idea of my new book, originally suggested the title The Meaning of Protestant Theology, I was a bit nonplussed. I knew the central concept of the … Continue reading →

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Against Asymmetrical Christology: A Critical Review of Rowan Williams’s ‘Christ the Heart of Creation’

Posted on 4 August 2019 by

by Jordan Daniel Wood, Ph.D. I When I first met him, he had just given a talk on St. Teresa of Avila, I think. I waver because I had brought along my 18-month old daughter and, well, she wasn’t as … Continue reading →

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