Friday, March 31, 2023

But is it possible?

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Second, we continue to act in alarge-scale way as if the encyclopedic inquiry is a live option. “Even now the organized institutions of the ...

Judging the past by the … present of course!

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Where the encyclopedists looked to the past, they assumed that all thinkers offered accounts “of the rational status of one and the same tim...

O for a heart to praise my God

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500 C. M. A perfect heart the Redeemer’s throne. O FOR a heart to praise my God,    A heart from sin set free ;—    A heart that always f...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

May it be so!

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Early persecution

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Historians know that official persecution of Christians did not happen until the reign of Decius in AD 251. But focusing on official, legally ...

A true philosopher?

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On the one hand, Justin clearly seeks to create a sense of deep continuity with the pagan tradition and to use this continuity for his own r...

Why study theology?

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There are different ways that one can come at Old Testament theology, but my concern is that too often we separate theology from worship. If...

Love divine, all loves excelling

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498 9th P. M. 87, 87, 87, 87. The new creation 1 Love divine, all loves excelling,    joy of heav’n, to earth come down,    fix in us thy ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

But without faith, if's just nonsense

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Were Justin to have worried that he missed the chance to hear the prophets, the old man would have assuaged his worry immediately: “Their wr...

It's in the living

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By philosophy, however, Justin does not mean what most moderns mean—an analytical discipline that applies solely to the intellect, a kind of...

Lead me forth!

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496 L. M. The land of rest. THY loving Spirit, Lord, alone,    Can lead me forth, and make me free;    The bondage break in which I groan...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Irreducibly complex

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Like Paul’s, Justin’s language about God exhibits irreducibly complex patterns. God is the Father of all, the Logos who is Jesus Christ, and...

Sure, they might exist, but so what?

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Justin’s view of God … requires a rejection of the theological legitimacy of the polytheism in which he was born and reared and which formed...

Tozer for a Tuesday

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G. Campbell Morgan once said, "We ought never in our gospel preaching to offer men peace. We ought never in our gospel preaching to off...

The divine rest

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484 C. M. The believer’s rest. LORD, I believe a rest remains    To all thy people known;    A rest where pure enjoyment reigns,    And t...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Justin Martyr's turn

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Because Justin is trying to cover so many bases, his way of speaking about God is culturally complex. He reaches both for Moses and for Plat...

Yes, there is a hierarchical order, but…

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Familial language, however, does not preclude hierarchical order, as if calling each other “brother” automatically distributed theological i...

I know that my Redeemer live, and ever prays for me

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483 C.M. The good pleasure of his will. I KNOW that my Redeemer lives,    And ever prays for me:    A token of his love he gives,—    A ...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

O how shall a sinner perform?

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455 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s Thy vows are upon me, O God. O HOW shall a sinner perform    The vows he hath vow’d to the Lord?    A sinful an...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Nope, not stasis!

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If you continuously show that the Christians are disruptive, aren’t the Athenian prosecutors basically right to try Paul? Wouldn’t the Phili...