Foster's Theological Reflections

Greetings to all readers! I haven't blogged much lately because of a minor illness. But I'm recovering now and should post somethi...

Hello all, This is taken from Divine Institutes 1.5.1 (Numbering based on Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey's Translation): "the...

This passage could potentially be used by a Trinitarian and likely has been utilized to prop up the idea that Christ is Almighty God. It rea...

1) Logical evidence is limited in what it can prove regarding the existence of God. One reason is because of our limited experience with the...

Torrance indicates that "Father" (a divine epithet for the Christian deity or first person of the tripersonal Godhead) is a relati...

How can we know (with a high degree of certainty) whether our understanding of the Scriptures is correct? I propose a threefold answer. (1...

Here is part of an old dialogue written to a friend: Keep in mind that different grammarians or linguists use the term Aktionsart in bewil...

Loren T. Stuckenbruck, in Angel Veneration and Christology: A Study in Early Judaism and the Christology of the Apocalypse of John (Tubinge...

Stanley Porter is famous for the work he's done on Greek aspect. His Idioms of the Greek New Testament outlines the "three planes ...

Taken from Didache 8: But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites, for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week. Rather, fast ...

Matthew 24:45 uses the Greek verb κατέστησεν to describe Jesus' appointment of the faithful and discreet slave. But καταστήσει appears i...

Edited on 8/10/18. Ernest De Witt Burton writes regarding aorist participles on page 67 of his syntax (section 146): "The Aorist Pa...

Theologian Kevin Giles contends that Evangelicals have altered their view of the Trinity doctrine based on certain cultural presuppositions....

"The traditional exegesis, repeated even by such penetrating scholars as Loisy, Bernard, Hoskyns, and Lightfoot, is that Jesus says ...

Firstly, I would like to thank Dr. Feser for producing a work that effectively (for the most part) dismantles the fragile straw house of ide...

The Gospel of Mark is generally portrayed as being plain or uncultivated and even ungrammatical at points. In his NIB commentary on Mark, La...

George W. Buchanan contends that the singular third person pronoun in Rev 22:3 (AUTWi) could refer to God or to the Lamb: he does not argue...

In his 3-volume commentary on Revelation, David Aune delineates the hermeneutical possibilities for the Greek expression τὴν παρεμβολὴν τὼν ...

Romans 11:36 has DIA + the genitive which can be translated either as "through" or "by." Either translation is able to c...

[Edgar] Paul J. Achtemeier has a very thorough discussion on 1 Pet. 3:19 in his commentary on Peter's First Epistle that you can find i...