Life in a Semi-Magical World

August 7, 2020 By Coyle Neal

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Review of Jo Walton’s “Among Others” Read more

Common Grace, 1.62

August 4, 2020 By Coyle Neal

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This post is part of a series walking through the first volume of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace. When Christ returns, will common grace pass away? This is important! It affects our view of this world and whether it ‘matters.’ There is no automatic transfer from this world to the next, even gradually–given the nature of the coming catastrophe where “everything that exists will perish.” (544) But! The “hidden life germ” will grow into a “higher order and… richer glory.” (544) And… Read more

Augustine on the Psalms

July 31, 2020 By Coyle Neal

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On my occasional trip plodding slowly through the Church Fathers, I’ve finally finished the last and longest Augustine volume containing his sermons on the book of Psalms. Frankly, this book is fantastic. Oh, don’t get me wrong. It has all of Augustine’s normal exegetical weaknesses. He is far too prone to allegory, he wants to force the text into his existing theological framework, and he’s working with a poor translation of Scriptures into Latin. For more on all of that, see… Read more