Search results for: “trinity”
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God is Blessed
We should pay more attention to the doctrine of divine blessedness. I have been pondering it lately, noticing it everywhere in older theological writing, and wondering how to give this great doctrine more weight and emphasis. Beatitude, blessedness, is a divine attribute. It is a perfection of God’s being. Blessedness has occupied an ambiguous place…
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Re-Heat Your Chicken; This Dead Chicken
Reading hundreds of pages of theology every day, I was in a small group of friends in graduate school who helped each other study. We didn’t have much in common except for the looming doctoral exams, and some overlap in our reading assignments. Tired of saying “the group” is getting together, we named ourselves The…
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Thrynnysse
The word “Trinity” is not in the Bible, true enough. But don’t let the fanciness of the word “Trinity” throw you, it just means “threeness.” I was looking around in some Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, Bible commentaries a while ago, and saw that the word “Trinity” showed up there just as “thrynnysse.” I was getting…
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Augustine's Two Spiritual Laws
Bill Bright put a simplified account of the gospel into an easily-communicated form called the Four Spiritual Laws. Those laws, as stated in the classic booklet that has been used for so much evangelism, are: 1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life. 2. Man is sinful and separated from God.…
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Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective on the "Converse with Scholars" Program
This Thursday (March 6 ’08) I’ll be the guest on the Converse with Scholars web show hosted by Reclaiming the Mind ministries. I’ll be talking with the hosts and the live web audience about my 2007 book, Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective. You’ll be able to listen to the show anytime from their site, but if…
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Anthony Esolen at Biola
On Tuesday Feb. 25, Dr. Anthony Esolen spoke to the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. Dr. Esolen, professor of English at Providence College, is best known for his translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Esolen’s edition prints the original medieval Italian verse on the left-hand pages, with his vigorous English translation on facing right-hand pages,…
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On Knowing God: The Top Twelve Books
In the Torrey Honors Institute, we teach an 8-unit class called “On Knowing God.” Following our great books curriculum and a Socratic pedagogy, we give students a one-semester introduction to the classic Christian texts. In fact, when the faculty designed this intensely theological semester, we realized we had a chance to assign, along with the…
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Scriptorium’s Greatest Hits for 2007
2007 has been a big year for The Scriptorium Daily. Intellectual celebrity J. P. Moreland and fellow professor Matt Jenson joined our team in April, and we have been posting at full power since then, adding our first podcasts and a very active “Noteworthy Links” section that provides three thought-provoking articles to click through to…
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Christian Imagery
This is an article that appeared in the Christmas Day edition of the Orange County Register back in 2001. It was written by award-winning religion reporter Carol McGraw (now of the Colorado Springs Gazette) and featured a large illustration by the Register’s staff illustrator Lisa Mertins. It was a fun Christmas morning piece, and is…
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Saint Nicholas / Santa Claus Songs
Santa Claus, bless his heart, may be a corporate shill who is constantly used to elbow Christ out of Christmas, but he is based on a historical figure who had a different agenda. St. Nicholas of Myra, a bishop in what we now call Turkey, lived in the fourth century. He must have been quite…
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The Second Person, in Person
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. That means he is God the Son, and that, in turn, means that he is the second person of the Trinity which consists of first the Father, second the Son, and third the Spirit. The one God has always been tri-personal, but in the fullness of time,…
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Why We Should Read Lesser-Known Books, or, the Anselm I Never Knew
Anselm was born in 1033 in Aosta, Italy and while young was put under the tutelage of a relative who was a professional teacher. This man kept Anselm confined to the house so that he would study more diligently so that when Anselm returned home he was frightened by both his family and neighbors to…