Tag: Theology
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[His] singular devotion to the literature of theology prepared him to exploit its great richness. – Marilynne Robinson on John Calvin in The Death of Adam (186)
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Reading Theology
There’s nothing that can integrate reality in the way that theology can, and so I feel as if I’m reading something whole when I read great theology, and I feel as though I’m reading something very partial when I’m reading anything else. – Marilynne Robinson
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To Fear the Lord
What does it mean to fear the Lord? Here is John Owen’s answer: To fear sin is to fear the Lord; so the holy man tells us that they are the same: “The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil, that is understanding” (Job 28:28) – John Owen, The Power…
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The Mind and Sin’s Deceitfulness
In ch. 8 of his The Power and Efficacy of Indwelling Sin, John Owen elaborates on Hebrews 3:13 (“Take heed that you be not hardened by the deceitfulness of sin”) and discusses the role of the mind in the deceitfulness of sin: Deceit properly affects the mind; it is the mind that is deceived… But…
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The Wrath of God
Berkouwer, on page 258 of his The Providence of God writes about the wrath of God: Apart from God’s wrath neither His righteousness nor holiness, neither His love nor mercy can be understood… Wrath is the implication of God’s holiness. It must direct itself against evil… God’s wrath is not arbitrariness… It is the exalted…
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What Greater Atheism Can There Be?
Thus man by nature being a willing servant of sin, is more desirous to be bound in the devil’s iron chain, than in God’s silken cords. What greater atheism can there be, than to use God as if he were inferior to the devil? to take the part of his greatest enemy, who drew all…
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Against Our Wills
What we call service to God is done naturally much against our wills; it is not a delightful food, but a bitter potion; we are rather haled, than run to it. There is a contradiction of sin within us against our service… Our hearts are unwieldy to any spiritual service of God; we are fain to…
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The Study of God
Plain theology delights in its very act of thinking, reading, praying, and communing – not for the effects, written artifacts, or social consequences … but for the beauty of their subject …. The study of God is to be simply enjoyed for its own unique subject: the One most beautiful of all, most worthy to…
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Reading Theology
There’s nothing that can integrate reality in the way that theology can, and so I feel as if I’m reading something whole when I’m reading great theology, and I feel as though I’m reading something very partial when I’m reading anything else. – from an extended interview with Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead
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