John Mark Hicks

I have recently created some pages where I can offer some previously published and unpublished materials for download.  I will occasionally comment on these to alert readers of their availability. At the moment there are several documents available on the Academic Materials page. One article is a presentation I made at the Christian Scholar’s Conference on a […]

Greg Taylor and I are honored that Down in the River to Pray was chosen for translation by some believers in Korea as one part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Korean Christian College. Come to the Table had been previously translated and I am grateful for its kind reception among Korean believers.  As one […]

Christians in the early centuries approached the doctrine of God according to the structure of the Apostles’ Creed and the earliest baptismal formulas:  “I believe in one God the Father, I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, and I believe in one Holy Spirit.”  To believe in one God is to believe in the Creator […]

Since we lack a script–a detailed “say this, do this”–for living out the gospel in our lives today, how do we “perform fifth the act”? This is the function of theological hermeneutics. It is a way of thinking, reflecting and seeking the will of God. It is imaginatively entering into world of Scripture to draw […]

I’ve read it in various books and heard it in several lectures. N.T. Wright has used it. Stan Grenz has used it. Keith VanHoozer has used it. John Franke has used it. Michael Horton has used it. And others as well. And I like it. It usually runs something like this: living out biblical theology […]

That’s the title of a course I teach at the undergraduate level at Lipscomb University. I don’t particularly like the title. Here’s why. “Doctrine” rings hollow at best for most students and creates hostile suspicion for many. The word has a polemical ring in the ears of many such that it conjures up images of […]

John Franke, theology professor at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA, co-authored Beyond Foundationalism with Stan Grenz. He is a Reformed theologian who seeks to “do theology” as a postfoundationalist in a postmodern context. Biblical Theological Seminary is consciously seeking to be a theological institution for the emergent church in a Reformed tradition. All of […]