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Category: Studies
Topical biblical theology, apologetics, Christology, history, and ethics.
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The Beloved Community: Corporate Imago Dei, Embodied Reconciliation, and Vocational Co-Laboring within the Promise-Plan of God
This essay examines the corporate, embodied, and vocational dimensions of the imago Dei through Carmen Joy Imes’s account of “the Beloved Community” in Being God’s Image 2023, ch. 9 , locating that account within Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s…
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Sinai, the “Ministry of Death,” and the Promise-Plan
This study investigates the theological function of the Sinaitic revelation within the literary architecture of the Pentateuch and its reception in Pauline soteriology. Drawing on the narrative analysis of Postell, Bar, and Soref (Reading Moses, Seeing Jesus) and…
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Christological Metaphysics: The Theological Foundation of Christian Ethics within the Promise-Plan of God
Christian ethics faces a crisis of authority when moral commands are severed from redemptive identity and from the canon’s own plot. This essay argues that evangelical moral reasoning must begin with
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Matthew 21: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 21 marks a pivotal transition in the First Gospel as Jesus shifts his ministry from Galilee to the cultic and political epicenter of first-century Judaism: Jerusalem. Within the overarching architecture of God’s promise-plan, this chapter presents the…
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Matthew 20: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
), moving directly toward the climactic fulfillment of God’s redemptive architecture. Situated immediately following the promise of cosmic renewal (
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The Architecture of Devotion
Biblical prayer is neither a disembodied Platonic ascent nor a technique for coercing the divine. Read within Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan theology, it is covenantal communion with the Creator inside the cosmic temple: image-bearers joining the single…
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Embodied Allegiance and the Mechanics of Belief
Contemporary Western evangelicalism often treats conversion as a Cartesian sequence: intellectual assent must precede any change of bodily practice. Brian Guan’s widely discussed “30 Day God Experiment,” together with pastoral commentary on the case, presses the opposite order.
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Matthew 19 An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary.md
Matthew 19 opens the narrative sequence of the Gospel’s Fourth Discourse (Matt 18–20), shifting the geographical focus from Galilee to Judea beyond the Jordan as Yeshua begins His final journey toward Jerusalem.
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The Soul and the Brain: A Biblical-Theological and Philosophical Defense of Substance Dualism within the Promise-Plan of God
This essay defends generic, holistic substance dualism—the claim that the human person is an integrated compound of an immaterial soul and a material body—against reductive materialism, nonreductive physicalism, and a post-biblical Hellenistic dualism that treats the body as…
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Josephus and Jesus: Authenticating the Testimonium Flavianum within the Architecture of the Promise-Plan of God
The Testimonium Flavianum Antiquities 18.63 64 remains the earliest extant non-Christian narrative notice of Jesus of Nazareth. Twentieth-century criticism typically treated the paragraph as either a wholesale forgery or a brief Josephan core later expanded by Christian scribes.