My wife, universalised and de-particularised
My wife weighs in on why we moderns obsessively perform our identities
My wife weighs in on why we moderns obsessively perform our identities
Joshua as an anticipation, Part III | The final entry in my Joshua series
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord… [Eph. 5:18–19] Paul's opposition of drunkenness and Spirit-filled singing has always
St Cyril's biblical theology of water
Newsletter
Joshua as an anticipation, Part II
An assortment of brief reflections on some ways in which our environments help to form our beliefs
Peter Leithart on the church as salvation
Joshua as an anticipation, Part I
An evergreen exhortation from Clement
Joshua as a retrospective, Part IV
Newsletter | Christ's conquest of death and our acquiring of a piano
On Augustine's allegorical reading of Cain and Abel
John Calvin: What we have so far said of the Sacrament abundantly shows that it was not ordained to be received only once a year—and that, too, perfunctorily, as now is the usual custom. Rather, it was ordained to be frequently used among all Christians in order that they
Joshua as a retrospective, Part III
I've had a very happy few months of posting my writing here on Psalter the Earth, and I hope to keep this up for the foreseeable future. I sincerely thank each one of you who reads or supports my writing. After mulling things over for a little while,
Scripture: Joshua
Joshua as a retrospective, Part II
philosophy
Some musings arising from my reading for the Philosophy for Theology course. I am very much still thinking these things through, so please consult an actual theologian if you have any high-stakes questions on the existence of God.
Scripture: Joshua
As the book of Joshua records Israel’s movement from life in the wilderness to life in the land of promise, it is not surprising that the book serves both as a retrospective on what has gone before, and the beginning of a significant new era for the nation. I
Scripture: 2 Timothy
In a recent reading of 2 Timothy, I was struck that Paul refers to a number of times in which he was delivered by God—and that these refer to concrete, historical, “earthly” challenges: Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured:
mission
I rather enjoyed this episode recounted in Stuart Piggin’s and Robert D Linder’s book The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740–1914: On 17 February 1810 a second group of [London Missionary Society] missionaries arrived in NSW, again dislodged from Tahiti. Samuel Marsden found
Richard Baxter's Political Theology
Some highlights from Richard Baxter's 'Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction'
Public Service Announcement
Update on my study plans for Hilary Term 2024
Theology of the Sexes
How the priests and Levites served as brother-guardians of Israel until her wedding day
Advent
Jemimah and I essay a positive case for the Advent experience in Australia
Advent
Advent reflections from Haggai 2:20-23
Advent
Advent reflections from Haggai 2:10-19
Advent
Advent reflections from Haggai 2:1-9
Protestant Christendom
In which I muse on E. J. Hutchinson's comments on Theodore Beza's letter to King James VI about the reign of Christ.
natural law
Some brief observations from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 in relation to natural law. Is Christ’s ethic a way of undermining and subverting the natural order, or restoring and fulfilling it? Or something else entirely?
symbolism
Introduction I was asked by a friend a little while ago about what palm trees symbolise in Scripture. This kind of question is very difficult to answer. The Scriptures do not tend to use symbols as mere “synonyms” for other things or concepts. The meaning of a symbol in any
Salvian
A fifth-century book review of Salvian's The Government of God. The Government of God is a theodicy in which the presbyter Salvian of Marseille defends God’s sovereignty and justice at his present moment of history. This is not merely a discussion about theology or philosophy in the