Christian Mind in Action
Why do theological progressivism and liberalism always win in a denomination? Because the majority are moderates and moderates do not care. Progressivism and liberalism always start as a minority, a small minority. Then like a leaven, they increase to a sizable minority. When the alarming conservatives, who are also a…
Our God is the God who speaks; our Lord is the Word of God; the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of knowledge and truth. Verbal communication is integral to the relationship between God and man, and between man and man. Christians are commanded by Christ to proclaim the gospel, to…
Anger is a common human affection in this world. The Scripture tells us that God can be angry and records many cases of God’s anger and man’s anger. A simple search of the term, anger, shows that it appears 267 times in the ESV Bible, not counting similar terms such…
List of prophets in the Bible (Order means the nth book in the English Bible). Distinctly false prophets are listed at the end. Those who had questionable character but had spoke true prophecy are listed in the former.
The classical theism controversy was centered on James Dolezal’s book, All That Is In God, published in 2017 by Reformation Heritage Books. In this book, Dolezal criticized a long list of prominent Christian theologians for their deviation from “classical theism”, most notably from the immutability of God. Those on the…
This book was originally published in 1909 by Longmans, Green, and Co. The ten chapters were prepared for the L. P. Stones Lectures 1908-09 in Princeton Theological Seminary. But only six lectures (first seven chapters in the book) were delivered. This book was also published in Dutch and in German…
This work on the Holy Spirit was published in 1996 by IVP (paperback). It is is part of the Contours of Christian Theology (with a total of 9 volumes of different topics, series editor Gerald L. Bray). Ferguson’s writing style is clear, precise, exegetical, and pastoral. He is firm on…
Thomas R. Schreiner’s book, The Joy of Hearing, as the subtitle indicates, is A Theology of the Book of Revelation (Crossway, 2021, paperback). This is part of the New Testament Theology Series edited by Schreiner and Rosner and published by Crossway. Schreiner has worked on several commentaries on Revelation, which…
Robert Alter is a prominent linguist and Hebrew scholar. He has written many books on the Hebrew Bible as literature and completed his own translation several years ago. For Christians, his contribution to the study of OT (and indirectly of NT) is to raise the awareness of Scripture as an…
What is the relationship between various fields of knowledge with theology? And what is the relationship between different disciplines of theology? Prominent theologians have articulated the idea of theology. Below is a survey of some examples (quotes in red). This article will be expanded periodically. Francis Turretin: Institutes of Elenctic…