Archive for May 2024
My Favorite Reformed Theologians Introduced Me to Aquinas: Credo Colloquy with James Dolezal and Matthew Barrett
Why do my favorite Puritans seem to with some frequency go back to Aquinas?” James Dolezal came to know Aquinas through the works of Reformed Scholastics (from Stephen Charnock to John Owen) who were appealing to Aquinas and commentators on Aquinas in their works. Once you read Aquinas and understand how he contemplates God and…
Read MoreMy Favorite Reformed Theologians Introduced Me to Aquinas: Credo Colloquy with James Dolezal and Matthew Barrett
Why do my favorite Puritans seem to with some frequency go back to Aquinas?” James Dolezal came to know Aquinas through the works of Reformed Scholastics (from Stephen Charnock to John Owen) who were appealing to Aquinas and commentators on Aquinas in their works. Once you read Aquinas and understand how he contemplates God and…
Read MoreLike a Marriage
It seems like far too many people treat relationships of all sorts as being disposable. As soon as they hit a rough patch of any sort they decide to pull up stakes, move on, and find a new relationship. This is especially the case, I believe, when it comes to church membership. Rather than viewing…
Read MoreSimon J. Kistemaker 2024 Lecture “What Knowledge Should We Desire?” – Lewis Ayers
In this third lecture delivered during the Kistemaker Lectures at RTS Orlando, Lewis Ayers seeks to answer the question “What is it that we should seek to know?” Is there danger in the diversification of knowledge present in universities aimed at knowing too many things? Ayers claims that what we know and how we know are critically important for…
Read MoreNot a Cistern, but a Fountain
Tertullian’s famous quip, “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” is misleading. While he, like the apostle Paul before him, was right to raise concern over certain vain philosophies perpetuated by the Greeks, even he had to acknowledge the unavoidable task of interpreting the fundamental nature of reality. This quest for understanding has captivated the…
Read MoreAquinas and the Analogy of Being: Credo Colloquy with James Dolezal and Matthew Barrett
What is the analogy of being and why is it so essential to the Creator-creature distinction? In Part 2 of this Credo Colloquy, James Dolezal and Matthew Barrett continue their conversation on the importance of Thomas Aquinas but this time talk about why our language for God is analogical rather than univocal. As it turns…
Read MoreSimon J. Kistemaker 2024 Lecture “Renewing the Mind” – Lewis Ayers
How does being made in the image of God help us understand “knowing”? In this second lecture, Ayers begins with an Augustinian understanding of the image of God as the ability to know God and moves more broadly to general knowledge. The ability to know God must contain the ability to “know” foundational to understanding…
Read MoreEverything About God Matters
We live in an age of distraction, entertainment, and lasciviousness, all of which inoculate us against holy passion for the God who made and redeemed us. We can let the sociologists conduct surveys of culture and the psychologists ponder counselling feedback, but theologians know that a fresh sight of God is what revives the soul.…
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