Merry Christmas

It is a wonderful 77 degrees here in South Mississippi.  Peter pointed out that I basically live in Algeria, which I have to say, isn’t too bad right now.  I quite enjoy the Yetti-free habitat.
But alas, I will be leaving Aslan’s country in a few, and I will experience something like an actual winter.  Some [...]

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After Worldview

I have become very skeptical of the talk of theological “paradigms” and “worldviews.”  There is certainly a way in which one views things, and there are certainly first principles and biases.  However, whether or not there is a singular “Christian worldview” or an even more narrow “Reformed worldview” seems to be a different question altogether.  [...]

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Global Warming

We closed school today because of snow. I don’t think that ever happened while I was a student.
This is the second year in a row that central and south Mississippi has had snow.

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The Dying And Doing of Christ

About the righteousness procured for us in Christ’s atonement Calvin writes:
[F]or as sin was done away through the death of Christ, so righteousness is procured through his resurrection. This distinction must be carefully observed, that we may know what we must look for from the death of Christ, and what from his resurrection. When, however, [...]

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Observations on Samson

A few other interesting features of the Samson narratives are:

Samson has a wedding feast. He dies during a Philistine worship feast.
Samson has a sense of humor. His manner of burning the fields is bizarre, [...]

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Structure of the Samson Narratives

Judges 13 is dedicated to announcing Samson’s birth and describing what his role will be. The next time we see Samson he is grown up and beginning his ministry. His ministry is described in Judges 14-16. The general outline is two-fold. Chapters 14 and 15 together are the first half and [...]

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Hooker and Tertullian

In an act of sheer brilliance, Richard Hooker produces a quote from Tertullian’s de Resurrectione Carnis where Tertullian says:
We may (saith he), even in matters of God, be made wiser by reasons drawn from the public persuasions, which are grafted in men’s minds: so they be used to farther the truth, not to bolster [...]

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Richard Hooker’s Biblical Defense of Reason

Much of Hooker’s concern in the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity deals with the legitmacy of natural revelation and reason.  His opponents, in order to boost their views of church government, had advocated that we could rely upon nothing but positive Biblical revelation.  Hooker argues that this goes too far, rejecting what is necessary in order [...]

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