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Full Martyrdom
When the Lamb breaks the fifth seal, martyrs cry out for vindication. That launches a thread of…
Wesleyan Trinitarian Theology
Daniel Castelo’s Confessing the Triune God is a contribution to Cascade’s Wesleyan Doctrine Series. The Trinity is not…
Deviant Calvinism
Oliver Crisp admits that he has “been drawn to the margins of theological orthodoxy or to the…
Making Priests and Kings
Genesis is full of genealogies: A genealogy for Cain (ch. 4), for Seth (ch. 5), a table…
Holding the Faith of Christ
In a 2002 essay in the Andrews University Seminary Studies, Sigve Tonstad reviews the debate over the phrase pistis…
Washed in Blood
The innumerable multitude that appears in Revelation 7:9 wears white robes, made clean by being washed in…
Souls In White
Several parallels link John fifth-seal vision of martyrs under the altar (Revelation 6:9-11) with the climactic sixth-seal…
Pauline Variations on a Greek Theme
Paul uses the phrase “elements of the world” several times in his letters. The phrase had an…
Romney the Political Placebo
Ramesh Ponnuru and Reihan Salam, two of the right’s smartest and most intellectually honest intellectuals disagree over…
Silence to Song
When the Lamb appears in heaven, heaven bursts into song (Revelation 5). After the seven trumpets (Revelation…
On Nature
I reflect on the problems of using “nature” in Christian theology at the Trinity House site.
Raining Arrows
We don’t know what Henry V said to his troops before the battle of Agincourt. No doubt…
Ancient Theory of Laughter
Writers on ancient laughter often speak in the singular of the “ancient theory of laughter.” What they…
Dramatics of Faith
Brian Brock is one of the most unusual theologians and ethicists writing today, and the set of…
Order of Worship, Order of War
Cherubim have four faces: ox, lion, eagle, man. As James Jordan has argued, those four faces are…
