Blog Posts

  • Europe Trip: Day Two (Oxford)

    Today Kristen and I strolled half an hour from our Airbnb over to a coffee house near the nearby train station. We began the day by – similar to yesterday – sipping, murmuring to each other our excitements for the day, and reading. My journal entry: “What a legendary day yesterday was! And how legendary…

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  • Europe Trip: Day One (London)

    My wife Kristen and I are on an eleven day Europe trip across London, Santorini, and Rome. Today marked our first full day in London, and we jam packed it full of everything our capacities allowed. My journal entry this morning: “Sitting in an Italian cafe right by the Thames, before heading over to the…

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  • Dionysius the Areopagite on the Most Holy Trinity

    – St. Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as “Pseudo-Dionysius” in more scholarly circles due to the fact that he was almost definitely not the Dionysius mentioned in Scripture as the disciple of the Apostle Paul, is a Christian theologian who garnered massive subsequent theological influence in both Western and Eastern theology. His treatise On the…

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  • Maximus the Confessor on The Lord’s Prayer

    – Maximus the Confessor’s commentary on the Lord’s Prayer is a short, edifying, worshipful read. The preeminent eastern theologian’s interaction with what is going on theo-logically in the words of The Lord’s Prayer is illuminating of the pre-Modern outlook concerning the Son’s salvific incarnation and our subsequent participation in the Trinity’s life. He writes, “Indeed…

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  • Eberhard Jüngel on Theology, Language, and God

    I recently purchased John Webster’s Eberhard Jüngel: An Introduction to his Theology, and have been wildly pleased with what I have found and read there. Amidst my daily perusing of the best anthology of Barth’s work in English today – The Essential Karl Barth by Keith Johnson – I find that reading Webster’s intro on…

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  • Paul Tillich, Faith, and Theological Reflection

    The end of my last post includes a quotation from Paul Tillich’s Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality which puts forth Tillich’s position on the compatibility between philosophy and theology. The central thesis of this little book is that philosophy and theology can, in fact, coexist, and are, even further, codependent on each…

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  • Baptists, Barth, and Holding to Your Tradition

    Karl Barth, if you couldn’t tell, has played a monumental role in the recent refining of my theological speech concerning God and man. Yet, Barth has also helped me think through a special difficulty I perceive many young, low-church Christian men are also wrestling with: a pull towards the high churches (Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, etc.).…

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  • Barth on Theology

    From Church Dogmatics II/2: here Barth gives a few preliminary remarks before expounding his unique (and revolutionary) take on the Reformed doctrine of Election. “Theology must begin with Jesus Christ, and not with general principles, however better, or, at any rate, more relevant and illuminating, they may appear to be: as though He were a…

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  • BOOK REVIEW: The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick

    The Divine Invasion is Philip K. Dick’s second book in the VALIS trilogy. Written near the very end of his life, the book is an interweaving of Dick’s final meditations on metaphysics, spirituality, and theology with some of his earlier narrative motifs. This is how the goat-creature sees God’s total artifact, the world that God…

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  • Why Read Karl Barth?

    *This is the most recent post from my former Wix blog, but I thought it would be a fitting first post for this blog considering what its purpose is. Enjoy!* For Christmas this past year, I asked for two books: Incarnation by T.F. Torrance and Christiane Tietz’s new biography every theology nerd has been raving…

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