by Theological Commission While the Memorial Day weekend has now officially passed for most, the Theological Commission would like to acknowledge this valuable civic holiday, and the important reflections and sentiments it is designed to provoke. As Christians, we recognize that our most significant freedom–freedom from sin, the law, death, and hell–was purchased at calvary through the shed blood of Jesus. …
Keep Readingby Kevin Hester I was not the student to whom my fellow commission member, Rev. Randy Corn, referred in his recent post The First Word on Last Things, but I could have been. My attitude about eschatology was one that saw it only as an intramural Christian debate over the interpretation of a number of vague Biblical references in apocalyptic …
Keep Readingby. W. Jackson Watts It has often been thought that there was a fundamental core of Christian teaching that has united orthodox believers through the ages. I tend to think this is not only historically the case, but theologically essential. Indeed, while we may debate the relative importance of certain issues, those doctrines which are tied most closely with the …
Keep Readingby Theological Commission The Commission for Theological Integrity is pleased to announce its program on Monday afternoon during the 2015 National Convention in Grand Rapids. This year’s session is entitled “Discipleship in Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective.” Though this session will last for the typical hour and a half time-block, we’re pleased to have two presenters filling out this year’s …
Keep Readingby W. Jackson Watts Recently I’ve been lumbering through Charles Taylor’s widely discussed book, A Secular Age. Published in 2007 by Harvard’s Belknap Press, this dense, 800+ pager (with endnotes) is an expanded presentation of the material Taylor originally gave for the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1999. A Secular Age is a difficult book to …
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