Tag: theology
A Loving Father and Difficult Gifts
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will...
The Trouble with Talking about our “Identity in Christ”
When it comes to explaining the Christian life, these days the premier conceptual tool that evangelicals are deploying is that of “identity.” And in doing so, we’ve turned the affirmation of people’s “identity in Christ” into a cliche, neutering it...
Desiderius Erasmus and “It wasn’t me, it was God”
For Erasmus, grace is active in our acting, in the beauty of virtue displayed that engages and transforms our affections, allowing us to play a part that becomes our own as we play it. […] Erasmus subverts the distinction between...
Dwight Moody, Heaven, and the Resurrection of the Body
N.T. Wright’s works have had many good effects. Inspiring eager readers to police people’s use of heaven is not one of them. “Heaven” in much of evangelical discourse functions as shorthand for a whole nexus of ideas that are, well,...