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Distention and eschatology - August 30, 2007
In a 1957 essay in Man and Time, Gilles Quispel claims that Augustine's views of time have been extracted from the "great struggle between a cyclical and a historical view of the world, between archaism and Christianity," and therefore have...

Justification and Judgment - June 20, 2007
Is it appropriate to use the term "justify" to describe God's verdict at the final judgment? This has admittedly not been common usage in Reformed theology. "Justify" has normally been reserved for the "already" of God's verdict rather than the...

Jesus the Judge - June 19, 2007
The Father has put judgment into the hands of the Son (John 5), and God the Father has appointed a day on which the Risen Son will judge all men (Acts 17:31). The judge of all will be a Man,...

Hodge on Judgment according to works - June 19, 2007
Was Charles Hodge out of accord with the Westminster Standards as interpreted by the FV Study Commitee? Hodge writes of the final judgment: "The ground or matter of judgment is said to be the 'deeds done in the body,' men...

Judgment according to works - June 19, 2007
Revelation 20:11-15 is widely taken as a scene of final judgment. Despite some potential preterist doubts, it does appear to be a final judgment scene. It comes after the millennium, and the ones to be judged are raised from the...

Realized Eschatology - June 07, 2007
Christians find an anchor for life in historical events, centrally in the cross and resurrection of Jesus. We are not the only ones. For some, the Holocaust becomes the key to understanding all subsequent history. For others, the Spanish Civil...

Alpha, not Omega - March 17, 2007
In his recent book on resurrection in Judaism, Jon Levenson notes that the objections to resurrection in the modern world usually came from outside religious traditions. Some took an "extreme" position that presupposes "atheism and thus regard nature and its...

As if it were planned - January 02, 2007
Few areas of theology have been as ridiculed in modern times as eschatology. Antichrists, dragons, beasts, final judgments - it's all superlatively mythological for modern rationalists. Sometime in the early part of the twentieth century, however, New Testament scholars began...

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