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Category: Ethics & Culture
Biblical ethics and contemporary cultural questions.
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Proclaiming the Inbreaking Reign: Homiletical Decisions, Canonical Integrity, and the Theological Referent in Jesus’ Parables
Jesus’ parables proclaim the active, inbreaking reign of God rather than functioning merely as literary puzzles, moral illustrations, or worldview-disrupting metaphors.
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The Ethical Reign of God and the Re-Engineering of Soteriology: Albrecht Ritschl’s Liberal Theology in Canonical, Historical, and Biblical-Theological Perspective
Albrecht Ritschl recast salvation around the ethical Kingdom of God, practical value judgments, and humanity’s organization through love after Kant’s critique of metaphysics.
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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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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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Deconstructing the War on Reality
Contemporary Western culture is marked by a crisis of reality: the denial of objective truth, the erosion of biological and historical givens, and the reduction of moral discourse to emotivist contest. This essay treats
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The Mind, the Machine, and the Promise-Plan
The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence and large language models has precipitated an epistemological and vocational crisis in both the secular marketplace and the Christian church. Contemporary reactions often oscillate between dystopian alarmism, which treats synthetic cognition…
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Gospel Ethics in Philippians
Contemporary Christian ethics faces a crisis of authority, coherence, and identity when moral reflection is detached from redemptive narrative and reduced to post-Enlightenment decisionism.
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The Three Pillars of Love and Divine Redemption: Deconstructing “Divine Abuse” through Hebraic Covenantal Soteriology and the Promise-Plan of God
Popular Western homiletics sometimes present an “angry deity” model of atonement—labeled “divine abuse” by Eitan Bar and “cosmic child abuse” by several critics—in which the Father inflicts retributive violence upon an innocent Son in order to satisfy a…
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Theological Anthropology and Human Cultural Identity
This essay constructs a theological account of human cultural identity—operationalized across vocation, race and ethnicity, and disability—by reading Joshua R. Farris’s treatment of culture in
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The Eternal Jubilee: Isaiah’s Prophetic Blueprint for the Beatitudes within the Promise-Plan of God
This essay locates the Matthean Beatitudes Matt 5 3 12 within their Isaianic and Levitical horizon rather than treating them as an unattainable moral ceiling or a postponed millennial code.