HeyJaredChurch Blogmatics by Beth Felker Jones
Theology is more like poetry than geometry. Theology is "vile for the sake of the gospel" (so says my friend, John Wesley). Aspiring to a vile poetics.
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October with Moby-Dick: The Chase, chapters 124-135 (opens the original)
Repost: How Annie Dillard revived my faith last Friday (opens the original)
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Repost: If Jesus is God, how do we understand subordinationist texts in scripture? (opens the original)
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Fellow Pilgrims,Christians believe that Jesus is God. Really. This is the bold confession of Christian faith. There is no sense in which Jesus is under (theologians say, “subordinate to”) or less than the Father. Father, Son, and Spirit are one: co-eternal, co-equal in majesty and glory. Jesus is the alpha and the omega, the one mighty to save.The Nicene creed puts it like this:Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishe
September with Moby-Dick: Approaching the end, Chapters 111-123 (opens the original)
Why I’m so grumpy about atonement theories (opens the original)
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Fellow Pilgrims,A couple of weeks back, I wrote here about why I still believe in penal substitutionary atonement. Today, a few further words on atonement theories in general, with a couple of notes on PSA. Church Blogmatics by Beth Felker Jones is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="s
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