Archive for March, 2006
A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith by Robert Reymond
Friday, March 31st, 2006Well, I spent most of my day off continuing my read through Reymond’s systematic. I was so thoroughly enjoying it, that by the end of the day I just had to dash off a quick book review recommending it to all the ReformationTheology readers. If you don’t have it, sell your car and buy it. […]
Augustine on Psalm One
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006For my second post on ReformationTheology, I tried to take the essence of what I had said in the first post and apply it more specifically. How does the reformers’ Christ-centered hermeneutic influence one’s exegesis of the psalms in particular? In this post, I attempt to discover, with a little help from Augustine, the answer […]
Understanding Isaiah (Lesson 13: The Great Effects of Christ’s Great Success [Chapters 54-60])
Monday, March 27th, 2006Introduction: Jonathan Edwards, in his beautifully Christ-centered biblical theology, A History of the Work of Redemption, argues that all of history was planned out by God for the purpose of accomplishing his mighty work of redemption. Accordingly, he divides history into three basic epochs, demonstrating, “(1) That from the Fall of man until the incarnation of […]
The Reformers’ Hermeneutic: Grammatical, Historical, and Christ-Centered
Friday, March 24th, 2006To anyone who is interested: John Hendryx has graciously invited me to contribute to Monergism’s blog, ReformationTheology. Whenever I write something there, I plan to link to it from this site. This is my first post, “The Reformer’s Hermeneutic: Grammatical, Historical, and Christ-Centered”.
Love, Unity, and Doctrinal Precision
Friday, March 17th, 2006It is currently in vogue within American evangelicalism to play against each other the complementary realities of Christian love and unity, on the one hand; and on the other hand, the necessity for a strenuous biblical precision in formulating and contending for those points of doctrine which are secondary in importance – that is, those […]
Understanding Isaiah (Lesson 12: The Vicarious Suffering of Christ [Chapter 53])
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006Introduction: Isaiah chapter fifty-three (together with the last three verses of chapter fifty-two) is the clearest and fullest explanation of the gospel anywhere in the Old Testament. Not until Paul penned his epistles in the first century would the church have a more explicit and heartfelt treatise on the substitutionary atonement and vicarious suffering of Christ, […]
Understanding Isaiah (Lesson 11: The Overthrow of Babylon, God’s Great Enemy [Chapters 47-48])
Friday, March 3rd, 2006Introduction: If Isaiah chapters forty through forty-five display the glorious greatness of God’s mercy upon those whom he has chosen for redemption, then chapters forty-six through forty-seven display the glorious greatness of God’s wrath upon his enemies. These two complementary truths, the free mercy and uncompromised justice of God, find their ultimate expressions in the different […]