Can you pray to the Trinity?
Of course, the very definition of Christian prayer is that it is trinitarian: We pray to God the Father, in the name of Jesus the Son, by the power of the Holy Spirit. That's the logic of mediation that's built into Christian prayer, no matter what words we use in the prayer.
And keeping in line with that logic, t...
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TheoBlog reports that Martin Hengel, New Testament scholar, has died in Tübingen at the age of 82.
Hengel's scholarly accomplishment was great. His 1973 inaugural lecture in Tübingen was published in English in expanded form as The Son of God (Fortress Press, 1976). In that programmatic work he declared some of the guiding principles that woul...
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When I was in graduate school, one of the most important groups I was involved with was a small group of doctoral students who were in the same phase of the program. We studied together, arranged special tutoring sessions on hard topics, and shared the burdens of life as PhD-wannabes. We were a pretty diverse group, but we had enough in common tha...
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In the current issue of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, you can read my review of Dennis Jowers' recent book on the Trinity, Karl Rahner’s Trinitarian Axiom: ‘The Economic Trinity is the Immanent Trinity and Vice Versa’ (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006).
The book itself (and consequently the review) is not for the gene...
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Today (July 1, 2009), Dr. Timothy Tennent is officially installed as the eighth President of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. This blog is to honor a man who is remarkable in his academic achievements, solid in his character and spirituality, inspirational in his teaching, and who I am deeply blessed to count as a friend.
Born ...
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Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet who lived his last decades in California, was born on this day, June 30, in 1911.
I am told on good authority that we should pronounce his name "Chess-wov Mee-woash," but I can't get used to saying those L's as W's, so now I stumble over his name whenever I have to say it out loud. That's probably appropriate, bec...
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Q: Is the tremendous battle now going on between Germany and the allies the battle of Armageddon prophesied in Scripture?
A: No, certainly not.
That battle is to be fought in Palestine (Megiddo, in the Plain of Jezreel; restored Israel the people of God are arrayed on one side and 'the kings of the whole world', i.e. as the Greek signifies, ...
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