Tag Archives: Holy Spirit
- August 21, 2008
- Experiencing Theology: Reflections on the Holy Spirit– also tagged Avoidance, Christian Beliefs, Christian Faith, Consistency, Continuation, Dichotomy, Div, Docume 1, Dogma, Dogmas, Evangelicalism, Fareast, Footer, Footnote, Fundamental Flaw, Heresy, Hermeneutic, Holy Bible, Holy Spirit God, Illumination, John Stott, Locals, Lt, Mso, Number Position, Orphan, Page Definitions, Paper Source, Pentecostals, Rd Person, Reflections, Rhetoric, Southern Baptist, Span, Style Definitions, Style Name, Theology, Times New Roman
A few months ago I wrote a post charging myself with being Too Skeptical for the Holy Spirit. I lamented, really, the fact that my Pneumatological Hermeneutic of Suspicion is always in over-drive. A few weeks later I wrote a post delineating those Christian beliefs I considered Dogma, Doctrine, Opinion or Heresy. My friend Bryne [...]
- June 12, 2008
- Too Skeptical for the Holy Spirit– also tagged Assurance, Chips, Empirical Method, Empirical Verification, Failure, Fingerprints Of God, Footstep, Hermeneutic, Holiness, Inner Witness, Paul, Pessimism, Pneumatology, Politicians, Preachers, Promises, Spirit Of Christ, Struggle, Suspicion, Testimony, Theology, Truth, Whims
The other day I was speaking with a friend about the pessimism of our generation, how our Hermeneutic of Suspicion has so permeated every part of our lives that we are (at least I am) too skeptical even for the Holy Spirit. In an age when politicians have bombarded us with promises un-kept, when our [...]
- February 13, 2008
- The Sanctity of Biblish.– also tagged Cev, Contention, Dereliction Of Duty, Divinity, Edgecomb, Exegesis, Idioms, Intimacy, John Hobbins, Keepers Of The Tradition, Laity, Linguistic Rules, Pastors, Pearls Before Swine, Roman Culture, Sacred Language, Sanctity, Translators, Vernacular
Should we hold Biblish as sacred? More importantly, do we hold Biblish as sacred? Over at He is Sufficient ElShaddai Edwards takes up this question in response to Kevin P. Edgecomb’s who argued the following in response to John Hobbins talking about the nature of the English used in the CEV and NLT.
Edgecomb [...]
- February 6, 2008
- Alvin Plantinga and the Definition of Fundamentalist– also tagged Alvin Plantinga, Aquinas, Barth, Christian Belief, Cognitive Content, Disapprobation, F Word, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalists, Instigation, Liberal Theologians, Luther Calvin, Magnum Opus, Mouths, Secularists, Son Of A Bitch, Sumbitch, Term Fundamentalist, Traditional Christianity
So I found this quote by Alvin Plantinga taken from his magnum opus “Warranted Christian Belief.” To give a little context to the quote, Plantinga had been talking about his Calvin/Aquinas model for the necessity of the “internal instigation of the Holy Spirit” due to the noetic effects of sins. For fundamentalists like [...]
- July 21, 2007
- Objections to Calvinism Part 4 of 5– also tagged 1 Corinthians 1, Arrogance, Bethsaida, Capernaum, Evangelism, Five Point Calvinism, Heaven And Earth, Heaven Earth, Holiness, Kingdom Of God, Luke Records, Obedience, Objection, Prayer Of Jesus, Romans 9, Soteriology, Two Witnesses, Unbelief, Woes
Today I want to discuss the next objection on my list, Election and Evangelism. Let me review the series so far. In the first post, I tried to distinguish historic, five-point Calvinism from hyper-Calvinism. In the second post, I showed that election in a Reformed soteriology is not a source of pride and arrogance, but [...]