Awhile back, I suggested some reasons for leaning toward supralapsarianism. Here’s some more: Infra seems to lack an eschatology. Creation is made, the fall is decreed, and then salvation is seen as a rescue from the fall. In supra, creation is never considered apart from a consummation. Salvation is not merely rescue from the fall, but the final realization of the purposes of the original creation. Supra underwrites the connection of protology and eschatology, and makes better sense of what... Read more

Is the issue of the theory of signs perhaps simply the question of where one places the distinction of signifier/signified? In Christian creationist perspective, everything created is signifier of God. This is its most fundamental essence and purpose, to show forth the glory of creator. Thus, the line separating signifier and signified does not run (fundamentally) within creation. Within creation every signifier is a signifier of another signifier. Derrida is right that creation itself has the structure of writing. In... Read more

The following includes some material from published essays, but also includes new material. In his third lecture on the ?Essence of Christianity,?Edelivered at the turn of the century, Adolf von Harnack expressed a common modern understanding of the nature of Christianity: “Anyone who wants to know what the kingdom of God and the coming of this kingdom mean in Jesus?Epreaching is must read and meditate on the parables. There he will learn what the kingdom is all about. The kingdom... Read more