by Brian | May 20, 2014 | Theology
This is part three in a series of posts about the way Christians have sought to explain suffering and evil in light of God’s goodness. It’s all from Thomas Oden’s book Classic Christianity. If you haven’t yet, read Part 1 and Part 2. In the...
by Brian | May 16, 2014 | Theology
This is part two of a series of posts about the way Christians have sought to explain suffering and evil in light of God’s goodness. It’s all from Thomas Oden’s book Classic Christianity. If you haven’t yet, read Part 1. He begins with the...
by Brian | May 15, 2014 | Theology
“No theological question is more difficult or recurrent,” writes Thomas Oden in Classic Christianity, “than why bad things happen to good people.” “But there is one even deeper perplexity for Christians–” he continues,...
by Brian | Apr 24, 2014 | Academic, Theology
In this post I wanted to highlight a couple of resources that are helpful if you’d like to study the bible’s teaching on evil and original sin. I discovered them a couple months ago, and, even though they are pretty dense and academic–so you might...
by Brian | Apr 18, 2014 | Theology
How does scripture describe what it meant for Jesus to come from glory and travel all the way to what we call “Good Friday,” the day when he was crucified? Here’s a very thoughtful and sobering look at the journey he took to retrieve us from the far...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2014 | Theology
“In Christ all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,” Paul wrote in Colossians 2:9. Here’s a challenging thought on what that means, distilled from an ancient writer John of Damascus by modern writer Thomas Oden: In Jesus, who is God-become-man,...
