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Divine Forgiveness and Legal Pardon
Divine Forgiveness and Legal Pardon Although Christian salvation comprises significantly more than forgiveness of sins—one thinks, for example, of the imputation of righteousness, regeneration by the Holy Spirit, bestowal of eternal life, and so on&mdas...
Ben Witherington III reviews <em>Atonement and the Death of Christ</em> and interviews William Lane Craig
Review It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read a good book on the atonement. The last one that I found really stimulating and challenging was Jurgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God, and it came out 40 some years ago! As it turns out, my old...
Big Bang Cosmology
Pre-Relativistic Cosmology In Aristotelian physics, prime matter, of which all physical substances are composed, is, like God Himself, eternal and uncreated. It underlies the eternal process of generation and corruption undergone by things in the sub-lunary r...
'Men Moved By The Holy Spirit Spoke From God' (2 Peter 1.21): A Middle Knowledge Perspective on Biblical Inspiration
Introduction The Church has traditionally affirmed that the Bible is inspired by God and is therefore God’s Word to mankind, authoritative in all that it teaches. The deeper apprec...
Response To Van Inwagen And Welty
It’s an honor to have God over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism[1] selected as the subject of an “author meets critics” session at the 2019 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting and a special privilege t...
A Christian Perspective on Homosexuality
One of the most volatile and important issues facing the Church today is the question of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle. The Church cannot duck this question. The collision between LGBT concerns and concerns of religious freedom, exemplified in the ...
RESPONSE TO JEFF KOPERSKI
I want to reassure you who are theologians and biblical scholars that Jeff Koperski’s paper treats philosophical questions which are hard for even philosophers to understand! So don’t feel bad if you had difficulties following it. These are hard qu...
Is God the Son Begotten in His Divine Nature?
Introduction On the Christian view God is not a single person, as traditionally conceived in Jewish monotheism, but is tri-personal. The New Testament church was sure that only one God existed, but it also affirmed that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, while ...
Divine Forgiveness As Legal Pardon
The distinction between personal forgiveness and legal pardon is well-known and widely recognized in the literature on forgiveness.[1] In this paper I wish to explore the analogy between divine forgiveness and legal pardon, particularly as it exi...
Is Penal Substitution Unjust?
Introduction Penal substitution in a theological context is the doctrine that God inflicted upon Christ the suffering which we deserved as the punishment for our sins, as a result of which we no longer deserve punishment. Notice that this explication le...