December 14, 2022
Texts: Romans 9:4-5; Psalm 19:7-10; Romans 3:1-2 Days 20-22 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. God chose Israel from among the nations as God’s own firstborn. As firstborn, Israel was tasked with blessing the nations through their obedience to God (as a light among the nations) and the promises made to Abraham. God equipped […]
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Biblical Texts, Theodrama | Tagged: Abrahamic Promise, Adoption, Covenants, Glory, Liturgy, Messiah, Promise, Scripture, Temple, Torah |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 20, 2021
If the ministry of the new covenant mediates the glory of God in the face of Jesus the Messiah, why is Paul’s ministry so filled with suffering? The gospel, epitomized in the death and resurrection of Jesus, calls its ministers—all believers—to give themselves for the sake of others. When we follow Jesus into his ministry, […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 4:7-15, Death, Glory, Gospel, Hope, Jesus, Ministry, Resurrection, Suffering |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 6, 2021
Paul’s “new covenant” ministry is life-giving, hopeful, and glorious. This contrasts with the glory of Moses’ “old covenant” ministry which was hidden to Israel in the wilderness but is fully revealed in Christ. The movement from “old covenant” to “new covenant” is not so much an abolition of the “old covenant,” or a sense that […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 3:7-18, Glory, Hope, Moses, New Covenant, Old Covenant, Pneumatology, Spirit |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
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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Posted by John Mark Hicks