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Category: Biblical Theology
Canonical and promise-plan biblical theology.
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Proclaiming the Kingdom: Reclaiming the Theological Referent of Jesus’ Parables in Homiletics and Biblical Theology
Jesus’ parables derive their force from their theological referent—the active reign of God—rather than from literary mechanics or metaphorical novelty alone.
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Paul’s Monotheistic Mission: The Shema as the Theological Engine of Gentile Inclusion within the Promise-Plan of God
Paul’s mission to the nations emerges from Jewish monotheism and the Shema, not from abandoning Torah or founding a Gentile religion detached from Israel.
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The Abrahamic Gospel: Covenantal Lineage, Typological Atonement, and the Textual Dialectic in Christian–Muslim Polemics
The Abrahamic promise is an advance announcement of the gospel, joining justification by faith, covenantal lineage, messianic seed, substitution, and blessing for the nations.
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Christ, the Uncreated Creator: A Canonical, Exegetical, and Promise-Plan Defense against Arian and Unitarian Subversions
The biblical canon places Christ on the uncreated Creator side of reality’s fundamental divide, despite Arian and Unitarian appeals to Proverbs 8, Colossians 1, and Revelation 3.
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Salt, Light, and Deeds: The Triadic Public Witness of the Church within the Promise-Plan of God
Matthew 5:13–16 presents salt, light, and good deeds as a unified pattern for the church’s public witness. This study relates covenant distinctiveness, visible mercy, and non-coercive justice to Israel’s royal-priestly vocation and the unfolding promise-plan of God.
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Davar: The Creative Pulse of Divine Speech and Its Ontological Realization in Messianic Theology
This study evaluates the Hebrew concept davar—word, matter, event, or deed—and traces divine speech from creation through Second Temple memra traditions to the incarnate Logos of John 1.
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The Covenant of Promise: Abrahamic Lineage, Prophetic Inheritance, and Covenantal Atonement in Christian–Muslim Encounter
This study examines Abraham as a contested figure in Christian–Muslim theology, focusing on the covenantal line through Isaac, the identity of the son in the sacrifice tradition, and the relationship between promise, substitution, and revelation.
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Heaven on Renewed Earth
Western Christian eschatology and anthropology have often absorbed a post-biblical dualism that pictures salvation as the flight of immortal souls from a disposable planet. Drawing on Chapter 10 (“From Creation to New Creation”) of Carmen Joy Imes’s
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The Messianic Inauguration
Matthew 3:1–4:25 marks the transition from Jesus’s hidden origins in Bethlehem and Nazareth to his public commissioning, testing, and proclamation of the kingdom of heaven. The unit is not a cluster of legendary vignettes or isolated proof-texts.
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Exodus 8: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Exodus 8 stands as a pivotal chapter within the first movement of the plague narrative (Exodus 7–11), serving as an essential stage in the progressive unfolding of Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan theology.