by Brett Williams | Mar 21, 2017 | Augustine, Culture, What We're Reading
Two cities, two peoples. Here So the people of God are physically within Babylon, and are also inhabitants of Babylon. There is friction between the two. The horizon of Babylon is this life, that of the members of the city of God, God’s eternity, and the coming of the...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 5, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Princeton Theology, What We're Reading
As, undoubtedly, the celebration of public worship and gaining divine instruction from the divine oracles, is the main object of the institution of the Christian sabbath, let all be careful to attend on the services of the sanctuary on this day. And let the heart be...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 29, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Lord's Day, Princeton Theology, What We're Reading
Whilst you conscientiously follow your own sense of duty in the observance of the rest of the sabbath, be not ready to censure all who may differ from you in regard to minute particulars, which are not prescribed or commanded in the word of God. Archibald Alexander, A...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 27, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading
What we call “the doctrine of the Trinity” is, I suggest, a formal set of conceptualities developed like this: a set of conceptualities that finally allowed (or at least was believed to allow) every text to be read adequately. As such, it is not a “biblical doctrine”...
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...
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 —...
