Foster's Theological Reflections

Hi all, I want to submit blog posts that will touch on my research projects. I have some book plans and ideas for journal articles. My plan ...

"And now we must return an answer also to those who would have the God of the law to be just only, and not also good; and let us ask su...

John Cooper writes: "From the time of the Church Fathers, teachers of the faith have used this doctrine [of divine genderlessness] to e...

(1) I do not understand Justin to say that the LOGOS or SOPHIA is eternally generated by the Father. Granted, the LOGOS [in Justin] is begot...

Irenaeus writes: "This expression [of our Lord], 'How often would I have gathered thy children together, and thou wouldest not,...

"For who will deny that God is a body, although 'God is a Spirit?' For Spirit has a bodily substance of its own kind, in its ow...

Rob Bowman writes: "In context, Jesus has just been accused of the SIN of violating the Sabbath (John 5:18). In response, Jesus stoutl...

John Goldingay (New International Biblical Commentary) makes this brief comment about the "burning" mentioned in Isaiah 66:24: ...

Tertullian believes that the Son of God is PORTIO TOTIUS whereas the Father is TOTA SUBSTANTIA (Adversus Praxean 9). Later trinitarian formu...

From _Revelation of Jesus Christ: Commentary on the Book of Revelation_. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Andrews University Press, 2002. "...

Regarding the Greek words OUSIA and MORPHE "If we stress the classical usage of this term [MORPHE], the technical sense of Aristotelian...

The KJV reads (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12): "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: Th...

Greetings, This post is taken from something I once submitted to a yahoogroup. I reviewed Kevin Giles' work entitled Trinity and Subo...

What influenced Tertullian's view of God's corpus? Why did he believe that God (although he is spirit) has a body? Firstly, Tertulli...

James 4:2 reads: ἐπιθυμεῖτε, καὶ οὐκ ἔχετε· φονεύετε καὶ ζηλοῦτε, καὶ οὐ δύνασθε ἐπιτυχεῖν· μάχεσθε καὶ πολεμεῖτε. οὐκ ἔχετε διὰ τὸ μὴ αἰτ...

Here are a couple of logical arguments I've been playing with: Let S = a human person Let M = mental states Let B = brain states 1. If S...

One atheist writes: "I know there COULD be a reason that he allows these evils that we as humans do not know about, but why should tha...

Addressed to a Catholic interlocutor: Subject: 2 Maccabees 12:42ff Hello B, I've read some good scholarly treatments of the passage you ...

Hi Sammy (a pseudonym), I don't want to go too deep into this point, so I'll keep things brief. Some years ago, a theistic logician ...

Matt13weedhacker: You write: "(LACTANTIUS c. 240 to 320): ...Et quamvis alios postea innumerabiles per ipsum creavisset, quo angelos di...