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The Winter 2014 issue of Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology features...

Athanasius of Alexandria (4th century), always trying to put the best face on the writings...

Among the host of ways Virgil modifies and develops Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the changes wrought to the...

Christoph Barth's 1991 "theological introduction to the Old Testament," God With Us, organizes the theology...

Karl Barth once remarked that if he could be accused of founding a school of...

One the happiest parts of my life at present is the view out my office...

In systematic theology, three doctrines stand out as mega-doctrines, as conceptual clusters that are right...

 I've been meaning to write something about this, but every time I read this paragraph,...

Courtesy of Open Biola, here is video of a lecture I gave in December 2013...

In just a couple of weeks, Fuller Theological Seminary will be hosting the second annual...

Should a Christian pray for a longer life on earth? Never mind admitting that that's...

Wolfhart Pannenberg is one of the most accomplished theologians of the twentieth century. His skill...

By far my favorite story about the celebration of Christmas is the Christmas truce of...

I've stopped saying "Just before he ascended into heaven, Jesus gave his disciples the Great...

At a recent panel discussion (ETS 2013 in Baltimore), I was asked to say a...

(From a paper I read at ETS 2013 in Baltimore, as part of a panel...

(From a paper I read at ETS 2013 in Baltimore, as part of a panel...

This morning, Fred Sanders and I participated in a chapel honoring C.S. Lewis' life and...

Excerpt from a chapel on the stories of C.S. Lewis, at Biola on Dec. 2,...

Joan Didion once said that the first line of a book is the decisive part....

There are a few lines from a poem by Coventry Patmore that stick in my...

There's a little song called God Went Bowling by a band called the Swirling Eddies....

When I published The Deep Things of God in 2010, I made a mental note...

The fallen angels in Paradise Lost are of course shockingly wrongheaded in their estimation of God:...

Richie Incognito’s alleged harassment of his Miami Dolphins’ teammate Jonathan Martin has been in the...

Last Friday, the estimable Peter Leithart posted a little manifesto in his column space at...

The 2014 Los Angeles Theology Conference, "Advancing Trinitarian Theology," will be on January 16 and...

The second annual Los Angeles Theology Conference,  entitled "Advancing Trinitarian Theology," will happen this January...

Christology Ancient & Modern: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics is the first volume in a series...

If God’s glory falls in the middle of the cosmos, and no one’s there to...