Sublime

In all roles theologians are committed to that form of existence arising from Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. They know that

Charles Hodge

If we believe that we are entitled to be treated with respect—and anyone who believes that they are created in the image of God must believe this—then when we are disrespected, we ought to get angry.

Philosopher Alvin Plantinga’s “Reformed epistemology” can be regarded as a variant of the presuppositionalist position.

evaluate past interpreters of the faith. Since oppression of the weak by the powerful is one of those elements, we can put the critical question to Athanasius, Augustine, or Luther: What has the gospel of Jesus, as witnessed in Scripture, to do with the humiliated and the abused? If they failed to ask that question or only made it secondary in thei

Or is it the duty of the government to suspend its own judgment and to consider the multiform complex of all these denominations as the totality of the manifestation of the Church of Christ on earth? From a Calvinistic standpoint we must decide in favor of the latter suggestion. Not from a false idea of neutrality, nor as if Calvinism could ever be

the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that