February 28, 2018
For many the Holy Spirit is an impersonal, imperceptible, and indiscernible force. Cloaked in mystery, many find it difficult to “get a handle” on the Spirit. The Spirit has no “face” like Jesus nor any personal metaphors, such as parent, mother, or husband, like Israel’s God. Our desire, of course, is not so much to […]
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Spirituality, Theology | Tagged: Communion, Fellowship, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Pneumatology, Sanctification, Spiritual Gifts, Transformation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 22, 2009
[Note: I am attempting to keep these SBD installments under 2000 words each, but that is–of course–quite inadequate for the topics covered. Consequently, these contributions are more programmatic than they are explanatory or defenses of the positions stated. You may access the whole series at my Serial page.] The Holy Spirit, as the personal presence […]
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Theology | Tagged: Assembly, Eschatology, Glorification, Holy Spirit, Indwelling of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Pneumatology, Presence, Redemptive-History, Sanctification, Transformation, Trinity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 18, 2009
[Note: I am attempting to keep these SBD installments under 2000 words each, but that is–of course–quite inadequate for the topics covered. Consequently, these contributions are more programmatic than they are explanatory or defenses of the positions stated. You may access the whole series at my Serial page.] The divine ontology is Being-in-Relation—the Christian narrative […]
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Theology | Tagged: Bible-John, Bible-Paul, Christology, Communion, God, Holy Spirit, Incarnation, Intimacy, Pneumatology, Relationality, Relationships, Rublev, Trinitarianism, Trinity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 15, 2009
Yes, it is true. I wrote articles for Contending for the Faith, edited by Ira Y. Rice, Jr., in the late 1970s. Ira Y. Rice, Jr. was a good friend of my father Mark N. Hicks. Ira would stay in our home, it seemed, at least once a year. He would either hold a meeting […]
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Personal, Theology | Tagged: Authority, Church Organization, Church Polity, Elders, Holy Spirit, Indwelling of the Holy Spirit, Ira Y. Rice, Jr., Leadership, Pneumatology, Polity, Sanctification, Scripture, Shepherds, Word |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 9, 2009
One of the more significant differences between the Tennessee and Texas Traditions is eschatology. I use “eschatology” in the broad sense of the term. It is not simply about millennialism (though the Tennessee Tradition was generally premillennial). Rather, it involves how one understands the kingdom of God, how the kingdom relates to “worldly kingdoms” (civil […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Civil Government, Eschatology, Holy Spirit, James A. Harding, Kingdom, New Creation, Pneumatology, Premillennialism, Renewed Earth, Stone-Campbell, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
February 23, 2009
Alexander Campbell’s relationship with the Baptists is rather complicated. His Brush Run congregation petitioned for membership Redstone Baptist Association in 1815 and then was admitted in 1816. In 1823 Alexander Campbell, along with thirty members from the Brush Run church, planted a new congregation in Wellsburg, Virginia. That congregation joined the Mahoning Baptist Association in 1824. […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, Andrew Broaddus, Baptism, Baptists, Experience, Faith, Holy Spirit, Justification, Pneumatology, Restoration Movement, Robert B. Semple, Salvation, Soteriology', Southern Baptists, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
February 5, 2009
Tennesee and Texas: Mac Ice has provided another illustration of the tension between Tennessee and Texas on his blog. While looking into the writings of C. E. W. Dorris, a founding elder of Nashville’s Central Church of Christ in 1925 as well as a student of both Lipscomb and Harding at the Nashville Bible School, […]
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Biblical Texts, Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: C. E. W. Dorris, Churches of Christ, Cled Wallace, Eschatology, Grace, Holy Spirit, Homiletics, James A. Harding, Lord's Supper, Millennialism, Nashville Bible School, Pacifism, Pneumatology, Premillennialism, R. H. Boll, Sermons, Stone-Campbell, Table, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 9, 2008
Now available on my Academic Materials page is the lead article of the then new academic periodical the Stone Campbell Journal entitled “God’s Sensible Pledge: The Witness of the Spirit in the Early Baptismal Theology of Alexander Campbell”. The article suggests that Campbell regarded baptism as God’s sensible (empirical) pledge of assurance. It is an […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, Assurance, Baptism, Churches of Christ, Forgiveness, Holy Spirit, Pneumatology, Sacraments, Salvation, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks