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Carson on Gospel Issues

by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | Christianity, Evangelicalism, Separation, The Gospel, Theology

What is a gospel issue? How do we recognize one when we see it? D. A. Carson addresses the problem in an insightful essay for Themelios. Here’s one side of the story; it’s worth reading the other: [B]ecause of the complex entanglements of theology, with a...

The Trinity and the “Two State Hermeneutic?

by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading

[T]he pro-Nicene theologians quickly developed what we might call a “two-state hermeneutic.” Their description tended to draw on the language of Philippians 2 to insist that some texts spoke of the Son in the form of God, while others spoke of him in the form of a...

Why the Trinity?

by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading

Somehow, right at the beginning of the church, the exclusive loyalty and worship demanded by God alone in the Old Testament was assumed to be upheld and not violated by worship offered to Jesus. For all the diversity we can discover in early Christian communities —...

Lee Irons vs Kevin Giles

by Kevin Bauder | Jan 20, 2017 | Christology, Evangelicalism, Theological News, Theology

Those who are interested in the current trinitarian debates will want to take a look at a blog post by Lee Irons with a response by Kevin Giles. The issue is whether monogenes means only begotten or unique. Interesting stuff, though Giles thinks that Irons isn’t...

Alexander on Justification

by Kevin Bauder | Jan 11, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Princeton Theology, Soteriology, Theology, What We're Reading

In most cases we should think it unnecessary and inexpedient to contend about the meaning of a word, when they who used it, explained the sense in which they take it; but, here it is exceedingly important, to ascertain the scriptural meaning of the word justification;...