Foster's Theological Reflections

Notes on Colossians 2:9 Robertson's Word Pictures states: "Paul here asserts that 'all the PLHRWMA of the Godhead,' not jus...

An interlocutor once asked me, "Dear Prof. Foster, I'd like to know when the concept of immortal soul was adopted by early chris...

The post below is taken from my old yahoogroup, greektheology: As has already been suggested, I think we must keep in mind that such terms...

Robert Bowman has recently argued that "Unfortunately, Andy [a member of his yahoogroup], you are making the mistake of reasoning that ...

I would now like to post some quotations from Paul Johnson's book entitled _A History of Christianity_ and obtain your input: He writes:...

Time Magazine reports: The annual national divorce rate has dropped to 3.6 per 1,000 people, the lowest since 1970 and well off its peak of...

The OT tells us that God hears prayers (Psalm 65:2). However, the NT book of 1 John (5:14-15) qualifies the type of prayers that God hears. ...

What did Jesus mean when he told his followers that "whatever" they asked in his name would be granted? Did he literally mean that...

The last three years of my life have been occupied by a study of paterology (doctrine of God's fatherhood), Christology and metaphorolog...

Metaphors deployed in Holy Writ and corporate worship express spiritual truths by means of reality depicting terminology. [1] Biblical nome...

The contention that there was a time when the Son as such was not has caused Bernard Lonergan to question the logical coherence of Tertullia...

Is the world getting better? Is the world becoming less violent? Are humans now living longer due to medical advances? While some might be t...

Since rational creaturely essences seem capable of knowing by means of general revelation whether God exists but utterly incapable of fathom...

On page 90-91 of his Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris tries to argue that religion possibly helped prehistoric humans to "socia...

Those who advocate comparison theory generally claim that metaphors “help us to make sense of things with which we are initially unfamiliar ...

As indicated above, most historians analyzing the Lactantian corpus exhibit a predilection for the non-theological aspects of his work. They...

Institutional facts differ from brute facts in that the former are ontologically subjective, but sociologically objective; the latter, conve...

Lactantius considers divine revelation immeasurably superior to human reason: “Even when he refers to the nature and reason of man, it is al...

Gerald O’Collins and Daniel Kendall argue that theological metaphors “refer to and describe reality.” [1] Concurring with Janet Soskice, th...

One finds some of the most poignant and significant uses of the term “Father” for God in the work On Prayer ( De oratione) . Tertullian comm...