June 1, 2023
I have now read the sixth of twelve books suggested by FB friends. This one was recommended by Clayton Homewood. This is my summary. Marcus Peter Johnson, One with Christ: An Evangelical Theology of Salvation (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013). Salvation, according to historic Christianity, is our personal union with the living Christ, our inclusion in […]
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Books | Tagged: Christology, Ecclesiology, Justification, Sacraments, Sanctification, Soteriology, Union |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 30, 2023
J. M. R. Tillard, Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ: At the Source the Ecclesiology of Communion, trans. Madeleine Beaumount (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2001). I have now read the fourth of twelve books suggested by FB friends. This one was recommended by Reece LaBlanc. This is my summary; and this one is […]
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Books | Tagged: Christology, Church, Communion, Ecclesiology, Eucharist, Holy Spirit, Lord's Supper, Pneumatology, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 3, 2022
This is a lecture I delivered at Great Lakes Christian College on October 21, 2022. Click here for the link. The lecture begins about minute 40. Acts 2:42: “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and the fellowship, the breaking of bread, and the prayers.”
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Biblical Texts, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Acts 2:42, Apostles' Teaching, Breaking Bread, Ecclesiology, Fellowship, Poor, Prayer, Restorationism |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 19, 2021
For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty. If the reasons Paul gives for 1 Timothy 2:11-12 are difficult to understand and subject to […]
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Biblical Texts, Hermeneutics, Uncategorized | Tagged: 1 Timothy 2:8-15, Creation, Ecclesiology, Fall, Gender, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 10, 2017
Though 1 John is anonymous, tradition associates it with the Apostle John or perhaps Elder John who are both connected to churches in Asia Minor in the late first century. Whatever the case (and I will call the author “John”), it is rather immaterial to the themes and meaning of the text. 1 John begins […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: 1 John, Community, Confession, Creed, Ecclesiology, God, God is light, God is love, Incarnation, Light, Love, Revelation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 29, 2015
Here is concluding counsel for a marginalized, victimized group. As exiles and aliens (1 Peter 2:11-12) within Roman society, Peter calls them to transcend their situation by living as an authentic community, which seeks only good for its surrounding culture. This section concludes the major exhortation section of 1 Peter. It opened with the vocative […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Assembly, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Hospitality, Liturgy, Love, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 18, 2015
Several weeks ago, Michael Shank asked—by email—if I would review his new book, When Shovels Break, on my blog. Since I reviewed his first book Muscle and a Shovel, I thought it brotherly to say “Yes” to his request, just as I have responded to all his communication with me in the wake of my […]
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Books | Tagged: Church, Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Michael J. Shank, Michael Shank, Muscle and a Shovel, When Shovels Break |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 13, 2015
“I suggest that within the Farewell Discourse this ‘oneness’ is expressed in a Eucharistic love feast even where diversity continues. When believers gather together around the table with self-giving love, they experience in a concrete and sacramental way the common bond that unites them; that is, the perichoretic love of the Triune God. Unity, then, […]
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Biblical Texts, Theology | Tagged: Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Eucharist, Farewell Discourse, Gospel of John, Last Supper, Lord's Supper, Perichoresis, Trinity, Unity |
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