Foster's Theological Reflections

Theodoret relates the words of Athanasius: "The followers of Eusebius were covered with shame, and buried him whose belief they shared....

Why they are called signs and lying wonders [in 2 Thess. 2:8-13], we shall then be more likely to know when the time itself arrives. But wha...

Personally, I think that QEWSIS [deification] is a doctrine that has a certain element of truth, but it is also capable of being distorted. ...

The following dialogue is one that I had with a friend and colleague back in 2004. I am not including his name in order to protect his ident...

John Cooper argues that the term "name" can have four basic denotations: (1) a personal name (e.g. Jehovah or Peter); (2) a proper...

The notable writer Alister McGrath (a Trinitarian himself) writes concerning the Cappadocian notion of God in three persons: "We are as...

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Animals, Language, and Speech Dr. Edgar Foster Is language strictly a human activity or do animals also use language? What is language? Is t...

I have not researched this point thoroughly but I have been wondering if the language that Scripture employs regarding God pouring out his s...

Jason (my self-made nemesis) has insisted that my view of the way John 1:3-4 was understood by the pre-Nicenes is wrong. He has adduced no t...

The following is a message from my old yahoogroup named greektheology: Revelation 16:21 Hi [you guys], Thanks for posting to this thre...

Greetings: A skeptic writes: I understand your viewpoint, but I was hinting at 2 distinctly different ideas. First, that if God does in fa...

The following is from an email I wrote to a colleague some time ago. I quote Augustine of Hippo: "But what if I love none except myself...

From time to time, I review my notebooks to see what projects I started and never finished or may never finish. One such project is what I h...

The evidence from the pre-Nicenes suggests that they took the expression hO GEGONEN in Jn 1:3-4 with what follows rather than with what prec...

Canon II. If anyone shall condemn him who eats flesh which is without blood and has not been offered to idols nor strangled, and is faithful...

One Scriptural passage that has really helped me to appreciate tomorrow night's upcoming Memorial of Christ's death on Nisan 14 is 1...

A little more on this type of argumentation. Stephen F. Barker in The Elements of Logic points out that the type of argumentation which cont...

Concerning dogs: In Philippians 3:2, Paul told the Christians living in that Roman outpost to be wary of the dogs (βλέπετε τοὺς κύνας), that...

Here is what scholarship says about subordinationism in Clement of Alexandria: The Son is EPEKEINA TOU NOHTOU, Strom, v. 6. 38. He is PANTOK...