Salvation and the Purpose of the Church in Ephesians
Ephesians stands among the densest treatises in Christian literature. What the letter settles about salvation also defines, and limits, the purpose of the Church.
Conceptions of the Human Body in the Greco-Latin and Jewish Perspectives
Greek and Hebrew disagreed about what a body is. Christian anthropology inherited both answers, and still lives inside the tension.
Theological Analysis of the Book of Judges and its Contributions to the Church in Contemporary Times
Judges shows Israel just after the conquest, and the portrait is embarrassing. That is precisely why the book speaks so accurately to the Church today.
Understanding Salvation in Evangelical Theology
The cross is the centre of Scripture, yet Evangelical theology reaches that centre by a route of its own. This piece reconstructs that route.
The Implications of Paul’s Eschatological Thought for Today’s Churches
Paul wrote to the Thessalonians under pressure, and the parousia dominates both letters. What his eschatology demands of the churches that quote it today.
Theological Analysis of the Book of Ezra and its Relationship with the Theological Thought of the Pentecostal Movement
Ezra leads the return from exile and the rebuilding of the temple as both priest and scribe. Two roles that contemporary Christian leadership insists on separating.
Pentecostal Spirituality and its Relationship with Academic Theological Formation
Faith is the starting point of theological work, not its obstacle. On what Pentecostal spirituality adds to academic formation, and what it demands of it.
The Action of the Sacred as Essential Substance of Theological Praxis in a Plural Society
In a secular and plural society, the sacred is no longer a given. This piece argues that it remains the substance of theological practice all the same.
Theological, Anthropological, and Cosmological Dimensions in the Book of Psalms
The Psalms say what dogmatics later organises: who God is, who the human being is, and where both dwell. A reading in three dimensions.
High Christology
Christology from above begins with the divine nature and asks of the disciple what cannot be demonstrated: faith. On what that starting point wins, and what it risks.
