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 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 28, 2021
Paul asks, who is sufficient (competent, qualified, or adequate) for the ministry of reconciliation? This question begins a lengthy digression (if that is an appropriate description; 2 Corinthians 2:14-7:4) where Paul describes the significance, practice, and meaning of the ministry of reconciliation in which he is engaged for the sake of the Corinthians and others. […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 2:14-3:6, Competence, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Letters of Recommendation, Ministry, New Covenant, Pneumatology, Spirit, Tablets of stone |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
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