Matthew and Paul on “Righteousness”
This morning I preached an overview message on Jesus’ Beatitudes from the Gospel of Matthew. In my preparation for the sermon I came across the following comparison in F. Dale Bruner’s wonderful commentary on Matthew’s Gospel: I suggest that in this use …
Reading Karl Barth on Election
Selection: The Church Dogmatics II/2:127-134, Excursus on Supra- and Infralapsarianism. Having detailed his theology of Jesus Christ as electing God and elected human, Barth inserts a lengthy excursus surveying the supralapsarian-infralapsarian controversy in Reformed theology from the early seventeenth century. He begins by noting …
Tell the Story!
Tell the story! In a recent article in the Weekend Australian entitled “The Birth of Meaning” John Carroll wrote a quite penetrating complaint. His complaint was concerning the infantilising of Christmas in western culture. It was an article in the Christmas edition of …