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Essays & Assorted Articles

Syrian Religion in Ancient China

Syncretism & religious aspiration

The human mind is such that it needs and seeks forms for its heartfelt expressions; even so, the human heart is such that it will too easily justify false forms for their purported service to truth.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Romans
- Romans 1:13-21

The Power of God Conceived in his Revelation to Man

The gospel, God's rule, and righteousness

Accordingly, human notions of both power and purity were challenged, toppled, and then turned right-side-up by the gospel. Rome imposed its power by a sword; the church found its increase by a word that invited believers of every tribe and people.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

Inspiration & Intelligibility

Language, revelation, and its religious misuse: Contrasting the character of biblical and Vedic speech

Revelation is by virtue of the Son and carried out by the Spirit, effecting understanding and a renewed relation between God and men. In scripture, language is made to serve God in a rational and benighted soul and make him a devoted soul. God’s words are given to us by the prophets, inscribed with a pen.

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Select Quotations

The Incarnation: Humiliation to Ironic Victory

The incarnation confirms heroism in humiliation

"Christ was not a human hero whose motto was Excelsior, who overcomes every obstacle, and finally achieves the pinnacle of his fame. On the contrary He descended always lower and deeper and more intimately into our fellowship."

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Refitting an Analogy

Jesus Christ makes the mercy of God apprehensible

Justice and mercy are not merely principles to be balanced by bureaucrats, but they find their source and definition in the very character of God. He is both just and merciful in a perfection to which his creatures are incapable and too often insensible. We are in need of an analogy.

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