On HEROES Season II

So I’m watching the episodes of the second season online, and I’m about halfway through what’s posted.  I can’t help but notice the increase in “God talk” and the desire for some sort of vindication.
It is also interesting to see Noah Bennet behaving like a company man even in his quest to destroy the company.  [...]

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Global Warming and Witch Trials

Alarmism has a long history in the climate debate.  Perhaps most chillingly, this was evident in the witch trials in medieval Europe.  After the Inquisition’s eradication of the actual heretics (like Cathars and Waldensians), most witches from the early 1400s onward were accused of creating bad weather.  The pope in 1484 recognized that witches “have [...]

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Global Warming Saves Lives

Bjorn Lomborg’s book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming provides some very interesting statistics. He notes the number of increased deaths due to rising temperatures, but then adds the decrease in deaths caused by cold temperatures. He writes:
Models show that heat events we now see every twenty years will become [...]

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Violence and Theology

One of Hans Boersma’s points against High Calvinistic forms of transactionalism (certain expressions of supralapsarianism as well as forms of the covenant of redemption) is that it makes violence an attribute of God.
Concomitant with this problem is the other problem that God becomes dependent upon the creation.  In order to prevent the affirmation of an [...]

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Simplicity and Communicatio

The doctrine of divine simplicity is a necessary description of God’s infinity. It states that all attributes of the divine nature are coextensive with that nature and indeed, they are the nature. There is nothing between the attributes and the nature. There is nothing that separates them, for that something would need [...]

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Zanchi: For It Was the Blood of God

‘When therefore the fullnesse of time was come’, wherein the promise of redemption made unto the first man was to be accomplished by the second, God, the everlasting Father, sent his onely begotten Sonne and eternal and therefore true God, of the same nature with the Father, made of a woman alone, and without the [...]

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Future Retractions in the Making

Reading Oberman makes me wonder if I have not been unfairly critical of late medieval nominalism.  Of course, reading Oberman and McGrath together makes me wonder if I’ll ever get a grasp of the various distinctions.
It is also tragic that I feel the need to reread Iustitia Dei already.

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Augustine on God’s Righteousness

Now, what the righteousness of God is, which is spoken of here [Rom. x.2,3], he immediately afterwards explains by adding: “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”  This righteousness of God, therefore, lies not in the commandment of the law, which excites fear, but in the aid [...]

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Ralph Smith on James Jordan’s Theology Proper

For Bavinck and for most Reformed theologians, Adam has transgressed the law and his punishment is a matter of strict law and justice.  Jordan’s view does not deny law or justice, but focuses on a different and most essential element.  Adam’s sin is the rejection of God’s covenant love.  God responds to the sin of [...]

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HEROES

If you can make it through like the first five episodes or so, this series starts to rock.

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