October 20, 2009
The most heartfelt and gut-wrenching expression of Paul’s love for his own nation, his own people, for Israel is found in Romans 9:1-5. Israel, though gifted by God with wondrous privileges, had rejected God’s Messiah. Paul was heartbroken as he listed the gifts in an overflow of praise for God’s grace toward Israel. Gift one: […]
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Theology | Tagged: Adoption, Assembly, Bible-Romans, Christ, Covenants, Glory, Israel, Land, Law, Messiah, New Heaven and New Earth, Promises, Temple, Torah |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 15, 2008
Imbibing the theodrama by reading Scripture is critical to the development of our theological sensitivities. One of the more important dimensions of this maturing understanding of the theodrama is the concept of redemptive-historical movement within the drama itself. The theodrama is progressive; it is telos-oriented or goal-oriented. Watching the movement of the drama toward the […]
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Hermeneutics, Theology | Tagged: Bible, Christ, Christocentric, Christology, Glory, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Israel, Metanarrative, Narrative, Narrative Theology, Presence, Redemptive-History, Scripture, Temple, Theocentric, Theodrama |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 12, 2008
As part of a pre-conference gathering entitled “Theology in the Service of the Church” in conjunction with the 1996 Christian Scholars Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, I presented a paper entitled “The Doctrine of God.” The presentations at this pre-conference were published in Leaven 8.3 (2000). Some of these themes (providence, pneumatology, etc.) are pursued in my Kingdom […]
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Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Doxology, Evil, Glory, God, Holy Spirit, Immanence, Praise, Providence, Secularization, Sovereignty, Stone-Campbell, Theodicy, Transcendence, Trinity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 3, 2008
There has been significant interest over the past decade in a resurgent Calvinism (or Reformed Theology). Some call it a “New Calvinism” (as per Collin Hansen’s book Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists). The popularity of John Piper as well as the renewal of Calvinism among the Southern Baptists (specifically Southern Baptist Theological […]
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Church History, Theology | Tagged: Arminianism, Calvinism, Election, Faith, Glory, Grace, Love, Predestination, Reformed Theology, Salvation, Theology, TULIP |
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