So the Bible never feels the need to "bring the one and the many together" for the very good reason that they were never separated in the first place. As David Bentley Hart emphasizes, to see the Trinity simply as a solution to the onemany problem in its own terms "misses what is genuinely of interest in the matter” because "the

In creation my existence is contingent on the action of another, and I exist only through his ongoing act of upholding me (and everything else in the universe) "by his powerful word" (Heb 1:3), but this reliance does not make me a puppet. In sin I am "dead" and in thrall to the world, the flesh, and the devil, while still being

Just like those first detectives who failed to see the purloined letter right under their noses, we Christians possess a fabulous tool for cultural analysis and engagement that we so often fail to use, a great resource that can help develop winsome, penetrating, and fresh analyses of cultural trends as well as distinctive, constructive contribution

The point I am making here is that the Trinity locates, at the very bedrock of relationality, deeper and more foundational than abuse and slander, not an "original violence" but the openness of irenic wonder, a "determinate word of peace, which loves" and which "corresponds to and participates in and is nourished by the inf

"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it" (Gen 3:6). There are two echoes in these verses. The first is an echo of Genesis 1. Eve "saw" that the tree

This is a god, Lewis continues, to which the naturalist can hardly object. By contrast, "What Naturalism cannot accept is the idea of a God who stands outside Nature and made it.

This is what Timothy Keller argues, quoting sociologist Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart: "The irony is that here, too, just where we think we [modern people] are most free, we are most coerced by the dominant beliefs of our own culture. For it is a powerful cultural fiction that we not only can, but must, make up our deepest beliefs in the

This chapter is about what God was like before he created the world, a starting point that requires a little explanation. You would be quite within your rights to ask how on earth we can know such a thing. The simple answer is that we on earth can only know because God told us. A surprising amount of material in the Bible concerns the precreation G

"The idea of the Fall is at bottom a proud idea, and through it man escapes from the sense of humiliation. If man fell away from God he must have been an exalted creature, endowed with great freedom and power." Only the exalted can be wretched; only the lofty can fall.