The December Intermission: From Christology to Celebrating Roe’s Demise to 2023
A recap of the sixteen Christology-focused articles we published this December, a preview of January, and a larger forecast of our slated topics for 2023, Lord willing.
10 Truths Everyone Must Know about the Incarnation
If everyone could know ten things about Christology, what should they be? Dr. Stephen Wellum distills the core truths to one of the most important Christian doctrines.
Give Diamonds, Not Coal: Why Prosopological Exegesis is Not the Gift You Are Looking For
Prosopological Exegesis capitalizes on ambiguity in certain biblical texts and seeks to put a “face” (Greek; prosopon—thus the terminology) or “person” to these alleged ambiguous speakers behind the writings of the inspired authors. Should Christians use this method to understand the Bible?
1.17 Stephen Wellum, David Schrock • Interview • “Incarnation Versus Excarnation in Culture and Church”
How has Gnosticism—an ancient idea that we must escape our physical bodies—influenced transgenderism, euthanasia, and 120-pound women beating grown men in martial arts movie scenes? And what does a double decker bus have to do with it? Listen in to Stephen Wellum and David Schrock as they discuss P. Andrew Sandlin’s hard hitting longform essay.
Christmas, Incarnation, and Particularity
Do you have to be of a particular nationality, ethnicity, sex, or marital status to understand something about someone in those same categories? And how does the second member of the Trinity thread this needle on this question of universality versus particularity?
O Come, O Come Emmanuel: Echoes of Incarnation in the Old Testament
Did the incarnation—God taking on human flesh—come from nowhere? Or were there Old Testament pointers that hinted at a human being who was also divine?
Jesus Understands: How the Sympathy of Christ Sustains the Church
What is Jesus’s disposition towards those who deem themselves to be past all hope? See how the sympathy of Christ is one of the greatest Christmas blessings.
Let Us Worship God the Son Incarnate: A Christmas Meditation on Philippians 2:5–11
How can the unchangeable God bear the vicissitudes of life, take our suffering unto himself, and receive the kiss of death? Only through a human nature.
Incarnation Versus Excarnation in Culture and Church
How has Gnosticism—an ancient idea that we must escape our physical bodies—influenced transgenderism, euthanasia, and 120-pound women beating grown men in martial arts movie scenes? And why the double decker bus? Check out this hard-hitting longform piece from Dr. Andrew Sandlin.
1.16 P. Andrew Sandlin • Reading • Incarnation Versus Excarnation in Culture and Church
How has Gnosticism—an ancient idea that we must escape our physical bodies—influenced transgenderism, euthanasia, and 120-pound women beating grown men in martial arts movie scenes? And why the double decker bus? Check out this hard-hitting longform piece by Dr. Andrew Sandlin (read by Kevin M. McClure).
A Chalcedonian Christmas
How do you celebrate Christmas? Would you be willing to consider a new tradition to help slow things down a bit and focus on the moment when the divine Son became a man for us and our salvation?
Christ and the Spirit in Christian Theology and Devotion
Do we emphasize Jesus so much that we sometimes neglect the Holy Spirit? Why don’t we have any holidays that focus on the Spirit’s role in salvation?
