Gareth has begun blogging his way through Overcoming Sin and Temptation by that most renowned of Puritans and England’s greatest theologian: John Owen. He’s put up a post on the first chapter, and I imagine we can expect more to follow. In fact, his aim is to get through the 40 chapters in 40 days […]
My dear friend Sam Pollard has left a comment on my post commenting on Edwards on imputation. It, as I was expect from Sam, is well thought through, deep, meaningful, theological and it taught me something.
Go and read our exchange.
It’s a shame he’s an Anglican.
These are some words from Tertullian’s Against Marcion, speaking against Marcion’s conception of God. Before I get around to commenting on it, I ought to set the scene slightly, and then tell you why on earth you care.
Tertullian lived in the late second and early third century AD. So he qualifies as ‘old.’ One of […]
When researching for my dissertation, I turned to Edwards to read what he had to say on imputation. According to the study of Pauline theology I did in my degree last year, there seemed to be some debate as to whether or not Edwards actually held the imputation of righteousness as the ground of justification. […]
[B]y that righteousness being imputed to us, is meant no other this, that the righteousness of Christ is accepted for us, and admitted instead of that perfect inherent righteousness which ought to be in ourselves. Christ’s perfect obedience shall be reckoned to our account, so that we shall have the benefit of it, as though […]
And , if one does not accept His birth from a Virgin, how can he accept his resurrection from the dead? For it is no astonishing, nor marvelous or extraordinary thing if, without being born, He rose from the dead; moreover we cannot [even] speak of resurrection of one who is unbegotten, since one […]
We have often said heretofore that the Gospel, properly speaking, is not something written in books, but an oral proclamation, which shall be heard in all the world and shall be cried out freely before all creatures, so that all would have to hear it if they had ears; that is to say, it shall […]
1. And here observe, That whatever in Christ had the nature of satisifaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it. The satisfaction of Christ consists in his answering the demands of […]
Yea, if once it should be allowed, that things may come to pass without a Cause, we should not only have no proof of the Being of God, but we should be without evidence of the existence of any thing whatsoever, but our own immediately present ideas and consciousness. For we have no way to […]
If you haven’t noticed or been pointed to it yet, the Pulpit Blog has been running a series on the issues/controversy of so-called “Lordship Salvation” - although to be frank it’s only a controversy because some people seem to find it grossly distasteful and so reject the last couple of thousand years of Christian soteriological […]