Biblical Critical Theory

Van Til argues that in Genesis 3, Satan tempts Eve to be a rationalist, but in so doing he puts her in an ultimately irrational position

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

A capacious grasp of the biblical storyline will also equip Christian students, pastors, and laypeople to think biblically about the whole of life and defend the faith in the face of hostile attack more fully and more deeply than even the best prepared suite of individual arguments.

The rhetoric of out-narrating is helpful in clarifying one importan

"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

Not only does God's personalness make sense of a universe full of individual things, but it also bestows a weight and a dignity on individual persons: on you, on me, and on every last person living in the favelas of São Paulo. If personalness is something that just happened to emerge somewhere along the evolutionary line and that, who knows, will p

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

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

Whatever we think about this plural, it is striking that it is used in Genesis 1 only for the creation of human beings and that human beings are the only animal specifically referenced in the plural: "in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (1:27). Some would see here a reflection of the unity and difference of th

Relationships: We pattern and rhythm our lives and our world through relationships among family and friends and through relations on social media with their own codes and norms. On a larger scale, institutions like sports clubs, schools, and companies create and sustain patterns of relationships. Our relationship to authority and the state is shape