Posts Tagged ‘Theology’
Evidence for the Imago Dei
Reading the blogs today, I came across this quote from Dustin Curtis, a graphic designer: When I first started designing as a hobby, I hated everything I made. I knew it was terrible, and no matter how hard I tried, I could never make it good enough for myself. But I didn’t give up, and after a [...]
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Tags: Imago Dei, Theology
Here’s another great quote from the good Dr Jim West: Jay [arguing for gay marriage] has, just like his opponents in the issue, politicized the Bible to his own ends. He has decontextualized it, accused it of being unjust (from an anachronistic, modern point of view alone), and then suggested its message needs to be [...]
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Tags: Context, Interpretation, Theology
My Baptism
A few weekends ago, I was baptized by immersion on a camping trip with my church. You may have noticed that I’ve been publishing a subtly Christian blog. If you’re a real reader, you’ve read the “About Me” page and noticed that I’ve even been in seminary for about a year and a half now. [...]
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Tags: Theology
Since it’s Saturday and you may have more time to waste spend on the world wide time-suck web, it seems like a good day to kick off a new series here at darnellia: Essays. These posts will usually be a bit longer than most because they’re papers I’ve written for classes. As my professor Dr. David [...]
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Tags: Service, Theology
This one comes to us from the illustrious Dr. Nathan Finn, my Baptist history professor: Some of you who are Calvinists think Calvinism is the gospel. My response to that is: You need to take a cold shower. Some of you Arminians think that Calvinism kills evangelism and missions. You need to learn how to [...]
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Tags: Humor, Theology
Is your Bible sterile?
This Sunday, I’m teaching in church on Matthew 22:34-40: Now when the Pharisees heard that he [Jesus] silenced the Sadducees they gathered together in the same place. And one of them, an expert in the law, asked, testing him, “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “‘You must [...]
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Tags: Church, Love, Theology
Does God Care?
Confession: I’ve been in a bit of a spiritual coma for the last couple of months. My time in translating Scripture has been wonderful, but I just haven’t felt very close – or even motivated to be close – to God recently. I write this because I’d like to share a few ways in which [...]
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Tags: Fried Chicken, Theology
A Challenge for this Seminarian
I’m reading Jonathan Edward’s Religious Affections, and I’m feeling convicted even before making it out of the first chapter. That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. – I.II.i If we be not in good earnest [...]
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Tags: Faith, Passion, Sin, Theology, Works
Doing Theology
Most anyone will admit that doing theology is a dangerous endeavor. Theology is where philosophy meets Scripture and a person attempts to systemize biblical teaching. The inherent risk is that the Bible contains multiple genres (narrative, poetry, history, apocalypse, etc.), whereas “good” theology generally comes in tidy packages of logical argument. Things can get lost in [...]
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Tags: Interpretation, Theology
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