On Remembering Scripture — JOURNAL

Time to stop leaning so hard on search.

A Decadal Kind of Change — JOURNAL

Rethinking this site — and my own vocations — as the 2010s give way to the 2020s.

Fall-Centered Theological Anthropologies — LIBRARY

God’s self-commitment to creatures — LIBRARY

The Triune Creator’s Relating to Creation — LIBRARY

Waiting for Communion — JOURNAL

A coronavirus reminder of our place in the time between the times.

All places tell stories — LIBRARY

On “Saints” — JOURNAL

Should we prepend the term to “Paul” or “Augustine”?

This Week I Learned #3 — JOURNAL

Less reading this week… because more composing.

Presence — JOURNAL

A few notes on God-with-us in his Word and at his Table.

Good Theologians — LIBRARY

Christian astonishment — LIBRARY

An anti-culture — LIBRARY

What theology must be if it is to be healthy and fruitful as a field.

Perfectionism Without Perfectibility — LIBRARY

The Real Aim of Utopias — LIBRARY

Humans of Open Source↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Chatting with Sean Chen about open source, Christian humanism, and working in public.

Christian Theology’s Place in the University — LIBRARY

Or, John Webster cracking very wise.

the story of modern theology — LIBRARY

theological self-criticism — LIBRARY

The first and last act of theological existence — LIBRARY

Good theology demands good theologians — LIBRARY

How spiritual formation is not mere interiority or “authenticity” but death-and-resurrection at the hand of the living God.

All is broken and incomplete, and politics can not heal the rupture.  — LIBRARY

Summarizing the basic shared commitments of all Augustinian liberals, whatever their many other differences

A Chalcedonian conceptual grammar for love and justice — LIBRARY

What if we thought of “love” and “justice” like the hypostatic union?

Politics & The Order of Love — LIBRARY

A good book, if not quite the one I hoped for.

Finding Holy in the Suburbs — LIBRARY

A solid popular-level book — which I wish pushed just a little harder than it does.

God teaches us — LIBRARY

the unholy science? — LIBRARY

an exercise of holiness — LIBRARY

reason is a field of God’s sanctifying work — LIBRARY

We speak in God’s presence — LIBRARY

an exercise of fellowship with the saints — LIBRARY

the requirement for theological reason  — LIBRARY

all the difference in the world — LIBRARY

the trap of thinking that we know what’s going on here — LIBRARY

thus… have we made the world — LIBRARY

God is holy as he bends down to us in mercy — LIBRARY

not primarily morally legislative but soteriological — LIBRARY

God as the Holy One and God as Redeemer and Saviour — LIBRARY

holiness and jealousy — LIBRARY

God with us, God for us — LIBRARY

Dogmatic portrayal of the canon — LIBRARY

“…our enemies, sin, the curse and death, are beaten.” — LIBRARY

“If you have heard the Easter message, you can no longer run around with a tragic face and lead the humourless existence of a man who has no hope.”

Three considerations on reading the Bible — LIBRARY

Webster expounding/expanding on Bonhoeffer and Barth.

exposition precedes disputation — LIBRARY

not the imposition of an alien will — LIBRARY

Two quotes on creatio ex nihilo  — LIBRARY

creation is pure generosity — LIBRARY

Praising God — LIBRARY

Two quotes from a John Webster sermon of the same title: on worship, and the one worshipped.

Theological Anthropology Comes First — JOURNAL

You don’t get a healthy politics if you answer the question “What is a human?” incorrectly.

Spiritual Experiences — Intellectual and Emotional — JOURNAL

A warning.

…revelation disturbs  — LIBRARY

‘It is “an interruption which addresses us.”’

God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology  —  Volume I: God and the Works of God  — LIBRARY

The first of two volumes of collected essays and papers by John Webster. Very, very scholarly.

…such is God’s mercy — LIBRARY

a moral undertaking — LIBRARY

“I cannot not be a creature made and called by God’s love” — LIBRARY

The incredibly good news about us of which Christ is the guarantee.

how to sorrow/pilgrim knowledge  — LIBRARY

Courage — LIBRARY

Study — LIBRARY

A good word from John Webster to all students (not just of theology).

the heart of the life of the Church — LIBRARY

A question of authority — LIBRARY

On Brad East’s approach to Scripture and Tradition.