Reading Karl Barth on Election (15)
Selection: The Church Dogmatics II/2:134-138, Excursus on Supra- and Infralapsarianism (#2). The strength of the supralapsarian position is that the divine decree of election stands at the head of all God’s works, in contrast to the infralapsarian doctrine in which the decree of election …
On Reading Old Books
I came across this citation from C. S. Lewis; it captures a wonderful piece of wisdom. Every generation of believers faces the risk of becoming a prisoner to its own myopic vision of the Christian faith, assuming that how it understands and …
Matthew and Paul on “Righteousness”
This morning I preached an overview message on Jesus’ Beatitudes from Matthew’s Gospel. 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 here [i.e. …
Reading Karl Barth on Election (14)
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!
Carroll, The Birth of Meaning (Christmas)In a recent article in the Weekend Australian entitled “The Birth of Meaning”John Carroll, professor emeritus of sociology at La Trobe University, wrote a quite penetrating complaint concerning the infantilising of Christmas in western culture. It was an …