Kevin Vanhoozer observes that the loss of imagination is discipled and disciplined by Bible leads many Christians to experience a disconnect between world they live in biblical texts believe in. There gulf known truth lived practice. The daily lives do not bring out resultant Christian character. This article attempts explain importance meditating on threefold lordship attributes proposed John ...

Abstract Recent scholarship has sought to reinterpret the French biblical scholar Richard Simon, viewing him less as unwitting participant in an agenda of radical secularisation, and more culmination centuries humanistic learning. This article repositions this rehabilitated Simon within contested theological landscape late seventeenth century Catholicism. Drawing upon Simon’s exchanges with Jan...

Marriage is an intensely practical matter. As a result, the subject of marriage is commonly taken up in practical teaching or in counselling rather than in a study of biblical doctrine. We have a strong biblical basis for this. In Paul’s letters, the subject of marriage in taken up in the practical rather than doctrinal sections of his letters. In this study, we will look at marriage from a doc...

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...

This essay advances the idea that a dualism between faith and reason has come to characterize the postenlightenment theological enterprise.' This severance of faith and rationality is rooted in philosophical and not biblical modes of thought.2 The result of this dualism is the triumph of the irrational in the interpretation of religious symbols. It would appear that the rigid confinement of fai...

A pologists throughout the centuries have recognized the significance of historical details in the biblical record and their impact on biblical claims of ultimate truth and divine origin. It has been famously remarked that " chronology is the backbone of history " (Thiele, 1983, p. 33). If this maxim is true, then the Christian apologist must understand that attacks on biblical chronology under...