Pastor, Associate Professor of Exegetical Theology, IRBS
Feb 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Dear everyone,
The TMS guys James White (@HwsEleutheroi) mentioned here (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…), Riccardi and Sammons, aren’t pushing Carter’s book. I know for certain because I asked one of them.
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Sammons doesn’t even own the book. I know for certain because I asked him. Either JW’s source got it wrong or he is the source of this wrong. Either way, what he said is not the truth. Unfortunately, he gets things wrong often.
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Dec 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I do not find the claim that I am swimming around in the Tiber (made on The Dividing Line recently) helpful. I pushed back on that claim first made several months ago by the same man who said it recently.
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When I pushed back several months ago, the man who made the accusation blew me off. It is simply not true and it is uncharitable. It was not true several months ago and it is not true today. It was uncharitable several months ago and it is uncharitable today.
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Nov 15, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1 of a few: “Mitchell Chase has written a book that will profit God’s people―church members, theological students, pastors, and teachers. Of the many qualities of this book, the first is that it is well-written.
2. Chase discusses issues that are often fuzzy in the minds of God’s people―typology and allegory―in a very accessible manner. A second quality of this book is that it is scripturally-based. This is the case not simply because Chase quotes Scripture...
Oct 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Secondly, there is a glorious and unspeakable union of both natures in the person of Christ: As he is Immanuel he is but one person, and as such is spoken of throughout the Scripture; even the same person that in the beginning was with God:
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The human nature of Christ never having a personality of its own, did from the first moment of its being subsist in the person of the Son of God. So then, 1. Though the second person of the deity have but one only subsistence,
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Oct 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Over 25 years ago, I began approaching sermon prep differently. I started reading older commentaries. Then I started reading in chronological order. Then I started looking up my passage in indices of the works of the great minds of the faith.
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Several things happened. I got out of the 20th-century commentary bubble that, though I did not realize it at the time, impoverished me theologically. I realized the wealth of exegetical work scattered through church history and across denominational lines.
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Oct 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A version of kenoticism has been seeping into contemporary evangelical circles. Contrary to the doctrine outlined above (what Stephen Wellum calls Ontological Kenoticism),
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evangelicals recognize that the Son cannot surrender any divine attributes without ceasing to be God. Instead, they believe that, while Christ possesses these attributes,
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Aug 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
NTI reading
Beale, G. K. & Gladd, Benjamin L. The Story Retold: A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the New Testament. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020 (490pp.).
Hill, Charles E. Who Chose the Books of the New Testament? Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2022 (81pp.).
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Kostenberger, Andreas J. and Kruger, Michael J. The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010, (235pp.).
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Aug 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Biblical interpretation in the early church was a conscious continuation of the hermeneutical principles practiced by Jesus Christ and his apostles. The assumption was not, as many modern Protestants have presumed,
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that because the apostles were inspired they were therefore able 2 make what would otherwise b considered illegitimate exegetical leaps, & thus the exegetical practices enabled by unique inspiration could not & should not be carried out by subsequent generations of disciples.
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Jul 22, 2022 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
Dear @HwsEleutheroi , this is a somewhat long tweet thread. Sorry for the length.
I noticed you mentioned me on your DL yesterday. Before I address that, I noticed you also mentioned Drs. Carl Trueman and Scott Swain.
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Since you apparently have Carl’s phone number (and I assume his email address) and are friends, why didn’t you contact him and ask him if he was referring to you? Seems the courteous thing to do.
I noticed you mentioned me on your DL today. A friend informed me of it. You claimed I have not provided a response to your claim of reformed biblicism. You are correct, I have not.
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The phrase is only weeks old. I’ll let it be defined by more than one person before thinking about a response. I have lectured on hermeneutics for many years and provide what I think is a good reflection of reformed hermeneutics in those lectures.
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Mar 23, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
from something I'm working on: 1. It is my contention that we shelve Rahner’s Rule and go back to an ancient interpretive formula instead—theologia and oikonomia—and utilize the concepts embodied in these terms the way the Nicene tradition did in the ancient church and has since.
2. This book is a call to return to Nicene trinitarianism. It assumes that at least some of what poses itself as Nicene trinitarianism in our day is not. If that is the case, why is it that some who claim to be Nicene trinitarians are, in fact, not?
Mar 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. John 1:1–2 is theologia: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.”
2. These verses refer readers back of the oikonomia to its trinitarian source, here indicated by two divine persons in transcendent relation without creatures. John 1:3 says, “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
Dec 9, 2020 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
1. The riddle to be solved is how and who brings the sin-stained, cursed creation to its new state of existence? The answer is the individual seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15), the son of Abraham (Matt. 1:1), the lion of the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:9; Num. 24:9; Rev. 5:5),
2. the one from Jacob who shall have dominion (Num. 24:19; Gen. 1:28; Zech. 9:9–10). He is the prophet greater than Moses (Deut. 18:15; Acts 3:22, 7:37), one greater than Joshua, the son of David (Matt. 1:1), the child of the virgin (Isa. 7:14; Micah 5:3; Matt. 1:23),
Oct 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. from the Introduction, Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account, p. 2
This book attempts to present a method of accounting for the confessional formulation of the doctrine of creation by our triune God.
2. Formulating Christian doctrine, especially as it relates to the doctrine of the Trinity, is not as simple as counting texts which use the same words; nor is it as simple as rehearsing redemptive history.
Oct 22, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
1. Of the various things I learned while co-editing and co-writing Confessing the Impassible God (CIG), one is that theology is done best when its entire encyclopedia is utilized.
2. Of the various things I learned while co-editing&co-writing CIG, 1 is that iron sharpens iron refers 2the living&the dead.
Of the various things I learned while co-editing&co-writing CIG, 1 is that the theological formulations of our Confession r interrelated & interdependent.
Oct 14, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
1. WHAT IS A CONFESSION OF FAITH?
The Second London Confession of Faith, 1677/89 (2LCF) is a confession of faith. It contains, in summary form, what subscribers to it believe the totality of the Bible teaches on given subjects.
2. The doctrinal formulations were crafted as a result of contemplation upon the entirety of Holy Scripture.
Oct 8, 2020 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
1. The New Testament writers were men of the Book (i.e., our Old Testament).
2. Though they wrote as those “moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Pet. 1:21) as the writers of the O did, they wrote with the completed canon of the Old Testament as their revelatory-inscripturated assumption; and they did not write what they wrote as secretaries taking dictation.
Oct 8, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1. “One God in Three Persons: Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life,” A Review Article by Stefan T. Lindblad
Conclusion to “UNITY AND DISTINCTION—One God in Three Persons: Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life,”
2. A Review Article by Stefan T. Lindblad, coming soon in Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2016
Oct 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. D. Scott Meadows endorses “Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account” (forthcoming from Wipf & Stock)
2. The biblical proclamation of creation is first and foremost a revelation of the eternal, unchangeable, almighty, sovereign, transcendent, immanent, trinitarian God. Christ’s Church has borne witness to this God-glorifying theology of creation from the beginning.
Oct 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Ryan M. McGraw endorses “Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account” (forthcoming from Wipf & Stock)
Understanding the doctrines of God and creation, and the relationship between them, is the lifeblood of systematic theology.
2. Richard Barcellos shows ably how and why the triune God remains unchanged by creation even while all things in creation relate to him.
Oct 8, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1. Paul Helm endorses “Trinity and Creation: A Scriptural and Confessional Account” (forthcoming from Wipf & Stock)
2. Richard Barcellos writes with insight and great economy setting out the trinitarian doctrine of creation, embodying in this account the general hermeneutical insights of Scripture that it implies.
