Towards a theology of pets (part 1)
…the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink,…
Category Theology
C. S. Lewis on non-Christians
C. S. Lewis describes the life of a saved Christian as a “Christ-life” or “new life”. In his book Mere Christianity, he briefly touches on the subject of those who have not been able to believe in Christ: Is it…
Ilaria Ramelli on Patristic support for “apokatastasis”
This is an excerpt from the first chapter of I. L. E. Ramelli’s work The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena. The main Patristic supporters of the apokatastasis theory, such as Bardaisan, Clement,…
González on the role of women in Early Church leadership
This is an excerpt from Justo González’s ‘The Story of Christianity vol. 1’ on the role of women in early church leadership: It is clear that by the end of the second century the leadership of the church was entirely…
Justified by Grace (Romans 3:23-24)
If I were ever asked to summarize the message of the Bible in one sentence, I would point to Romans 3:23-24: 23 for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the…
Heiser’s Introduction to the Unseen Realm
I decided to re-read Michael Heiser’s principal work: The Unseen Realm: Recovering the supernatural worldview of the Bible (2015). This book had been in print for a while, but I purchased and read it earlier this year. As with a good deal…
Favorite “Dogma” Quotes
This is just a compilation of some of my favorite quotes from “Dogma”. While this is not the most appropriate movie, it’s script has interesting theology on some topics such as… On plenary indulgence: –This is church law, it’s not…
Substitution of God (θεος) with Lord (κυριος) in 1 Peter 1:25
While working on a bible study on Isaiah 40:8, I noticed that in the New Testament, when Peter quotes this text (1 Peter 1:25), there was an interesting change that is not found in the Hebrew nor Greek versions of…
Translation of John 1:1
This is a study of the first verse of John, done through a translation from the Greek text into English. This verse is part of a larger translation project I am carrying out. For the Greek text, I used Nestle’s…
3 John translation project (2): Comparing Source Texts
In my previous post, I gave a brief overview of the Greek texts I am using for my translation of the Third Epistle of John (3 John). Today I spent some time comparing the texts to each other, and I…