Foster's Theological Reflections

Regarding John 1:1c, both Jehovah's Witnesses and Trinitarians say that the Logos is deity in a qualitative sense (i.e. he is "div...

John L. Austin began undertaking a form of research known as speech-act theory approximately fifty years ago. The publication in which he ...

I submit that metasememic constructs are as-if structures. [1] Metasememes evidently do not predicate metaphysical or literal properties of...

Guthrie begins his discussion on the text of Hebrews by reviewing past scholarly attempts to discern the structure of the Christian epistle....

Nevertheless, in order to apprehend Justin’s doctrine of innominability, it is necessary to make a distinction between names ( onomata ) and...

Greetings, Paul writes to the Ephesians: ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν ἡ πάλη πρὸς αἷμα καὶ σάρκα, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὰς ἀρχάς, πρὸς τὰς ἐξουσίας, πρὸς τοὺς ...

Greetings, In Dialogus cum Tryphone , Justin Martyr declares that angels and humans possess free will. However, what does free will entail? ...

The following paragraphs will outline and distinguish five assorted levels of context. For the sake of discussion, one may think of context ...

Once Lactantius sets forth an explanation of the Son’s mission and nature, it becomes apparent that his use of the proper noun “God” as a ti...

Lactantius contends that before God produced the world and other angels, he “created a holy and incorruptible spirit whom he called his son,...

A cursory reading of Divinae institutiones may lead one to believe that Lactantius is a strict egalitarian. However, a deliberate perusal o...

Hannah Arendt insists that speculative thought only reveals itself by means of metaphoric implementation. [1] Metaphors bridge the gulf tha...

Life of Lactantius in Breve Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius [1] was born circa 250 CE in Proconsular Africa and likely died at Tri...

Lactantius points out that God will destroy the wicked during the day of anger, wherein “torrents of blood shall flow,” and “the prince also...

For Novatian, God the Father is the unbegotten, ingenerate, unlimited and atemporal deity. Therefore, he accordingly suggests that the ingen...

Greetings, Robert M. Bowman ( Why You Should Believe in the Trinity , page 30) once again criticizes the brochure Should You Believe in th...

Greetings, In _Why You Should Believe in the Trinity: An Answer to Jehovah's Witnesses_ (pp. 27-29), Robert Bowman makes some comments p...

Origen of Alexandria evidently believed: “God was however always Father; he could not change from one condition (not-Father) to another (Fat...