Tom Wright on Christian Hope

This is something of an early review on the book “Surprised by Hope” by Tom Wright (Or N.T. Wright to his more scholarly audience), who, for those of you unaware, is the Bishop of Durham in the Anglican Communion, and one of the more prominent New Testament theologians of our day.
I say this is [...]

Wrestling with the Resurrection

Of all the theological doctrines, concepts, and problems which have crossed my mind since I became a Christian, not many have been quite so perplexing and consistently mind bending as the subject of Heaven versus Hell. It has come to the point for me, where I am almost afraid to even put to paper any [...]

The Outworking of Faith

In a kind of follow up to my previous post, I would like to address what the outworking of faith in the world around us means after we have obtained it. As a reaffirmation of what it means to be a “new creation” in Christ, I find certain aspects of the Fall of Man quite [...]

The Justification of Grace Through Faith

Romans 3:21-24
21But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
22This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24and are justified freely by his [...]

Duped by Dualism

I’m usually of the opinion that beliefs regarding eschatology are of a personal nature and are relatively unimportant to a person’s spiritual walk as they do not necessarily affect our deeds while we still occupy this life.
It occurs to me, however, that an eschatology which is divorced from the physical realm can be quite harmful [...]

Nonviolence in Scripture

My discussions with Heretic today inspired this short post.
I made a couple of posts earlier on, one on Agapé love, the other on Jesus and the Moneychangers, which I felt gave some sense of why Nonviolence is an integral part of the Gospel. I appreciate, however, that to many Christians there may not be an [...]

Salvation and Damnation

When we come to an understanding of a theology wherein Jesus Christ acts as our personal saviour, we must then come to an appreciation of what it is we have been saved from. Most in the church today would see this fate as “Hell” the state of eternal punishment which we are all in default [...]