Top 10 of 2018 (January 9, 2019)

My top ten posts of the year are never viral, but they are helpful to reflect back on the year to see what was helpful to the PostBarthian readers around the world, and this year is no different! What I appreciate this top ten is the diversity of theologians from […]

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Why I Still Love Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to Jonathan Edwards’ Life and Theological Works (November 29, 2018)

Biographical Introduction Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is infamous for his extreme Calvinist theology in general (according to the Oxford dictionary) and his doctrine of double predestination in particular exemplified by The Freedom of the Will (1754). Edwards famous fire and brimstone sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) we tremendously influential during the Great […]

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Jonathan Edwards: a slave-owner who purchased slaves and defended slavery (November 24, 2018)

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was an influential American theologian, philosopher, revivalist, missionary, and chancellor. Jonathan Edwards was also a racist. Jonathan Edwards owned slaves like his father Timothy Edwards, and personally purchased slaves himself, and defended a minister's right to own slaves against abolitionists protesters, and according to George Marsden, Edwards […]

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James Cone: Martin Luther King, Jr. is America’s Most Outstanding Theologian (January 18, 2015)

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s (1929—1968) birthday was January 15, 1929 and he would have been 86 years old, if he had lived until today. MLK was assassinated on Thursday, April 4, 1968 when he was 39 years old in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow is the only major federal holiday […]

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15 Theology Books Defining My Autobiography (January 15, 2015)

I've read over 500 theology books in the last ten years. (Some people read these many books every year!) Of all these books, there are fifteen books that stand apart as guideposts in my journey of exploration in theology. I don't recommend all of these books today, but these books […]

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Jonathan Edwards on Infant Baptism (March 4, 2014)

Jonathan Edwards is deeply loved today and widely admired by Evangelicals, and it may come as a surprise and shock to many, especially his Baptists fans to discover that he affirms Infant Baptism as the true and correct form of Christian Baptism! First, I will share a bit of background […]

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Oliver Crisp on Edwardsian Panentheism (September 5, 2013)

Oliver Crisp draws swords in his book, "Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation", and assails all of Edward's most controversial ideas, including Edwards famous writings on Occasionalism, Idealism in the Trinity, Continuous Creationism, Panentheism, Double Predestination and more! This book contains excellent summaries and critiques of Jonathan Edward's speculative theology. […]

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Jonathan Edwards On Resolutions (January 1, 2013)

Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions are famous, and an excellent read for the New Year (or in Edwards's words, every week!). For more background on the Resolutions, see the Yale Edwards Center's information:  http://edwards.yale.edu/research/major-works/resolutions RESOLUTIONS (1722-1723) Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God's help, I do humbly entreat him by […]

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Charles Hodge on Hylozoism and Panentheism (July 26, 2012)

Charles Hodge Some Panentheists believe that the world is God's body, and this is known as Panpsychism meaning all-soul, or everything exists is the body or soul of God. Panentheism is different than Pantheism, in that it still maintains a distinction between God and Creation. In Pantheism, there is an identity between […]

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Jonathan Edwards On Examining the Lord’s Supper (May 7, 2012)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758 AD) was the grandson of Solomon Stoddard (1643 - 1729 AD). Stoddard was called the 'congressional pope of New England' and it was he who established the Half-Way Covenant that was accepted everywhere in New England as the standard for Church Membership. Under the Half-Way Covenant, evidence […]

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