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Category: Ethics & Culture
Biblical ethics and contemporary cultural questions.
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Defining Christian Freedom: Law, Gospel, and the Teleological Recovery of Human Liberty
Christian freedom is examined as deliverance from sin for Spirit-enabled love and service, challenging the assumption that fewer moral boundaries necessarily produce greater liberty.
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The Ontological Foundations of Human Dignity: A Biblical-Theological and Philosophical Refutation of “Speciesism”
The essay defends intrinsic human dignity against capacity-based personhood while grounding compassionate animal care and stewardship in the image of God.
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Salt, Light, and Good Deeds: The Triadic Public Witness of the Believing Community within the Promise-Plan of God
Matthew 5:13–16 is read as a triad of salt, light, and good deeds, describing a distinct, visible, and practically faithful community.
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The Architecture of Kingdom Law
The essay reads Matthew 5–7 as covenantal instruction embodied and authoritatively interpreted by Jesus. Its analysis of Matthew 5:17–20 challenges a simple opposition between law and grace, locating kingdom righteousness within the continuing biblical promise-plan.
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Restorative Justice and the Kingdom Ethic
This essay argues that biblical justice seeks the healing of injured relationships and the vindication of the vulnerable. It reads restorative justice through the Sermon on the Mount, emphasizing victim healing, offender accountability, and covenantal repair rather than…
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Grace, Law, and the Myth of Ethical Anemia
This study answers the antinomian objection by reconnecting justification by faith with union with Christ, Spirit-empowered allegiance, and Torah-shaped kingdom ethics.
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Gender, Metaphysics, and the Divine Icon
A theological anthropology of sexed embodiment, the imago Dei, soul-body unity, marriage typology, Christological particularity, and the promise-plan.
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Decoding the Beatitudes
The Beatitudes announce a Jubilee people formed inwardly in the heart and outwardly for mercy, justice, peacemaking, and faithful kingdom witness.
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The Markan Kaleidoscope: Apocalyptic Combat, Hidden Glory, and the Parabolic Inbreaking of the Kingdom within the Promise-Plan of God
Mark’s Strong, Hidden, and Suffering Messiah converge in parables that reveal God’s kingdom advancing through secrecy, vulnerability, and promised harvest.
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Exegeting the Apostle of Liberty: Paul, Second Temple Judaism, and Female Authority
Paul’s statements about women are read within Second Temple Judaism, Roman social conditions, epistolary context, and the shared vocation of image-bearing co-heirs.