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Below you can find series of articles on various theological issues.

The Evangelical’s Creation Conundrum: Navigating the Scylla and the Charybdis of Science and Scripture

scylla charybdis
Odysseus Faces the Scylla and Charybdis by Henry Füssli. Public domain.
  1. The Evangelical’s Creation Conundrum: Navigating the Scylla and the Charybdis
  2. Designed for Order: The ANE Wisdom Worldview
  3. The Fear of Yahweh is the Beginning of Wisdom: The Israelite Wisdom Worldview
  4. Consilience: The Unity of Science and Scripture in the Matrix of Wisdom
  5. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, How I Wonder When You Are
  6. The Structural Symmetry of the Six Days of Creation
  7. Creation is a Temple: Reading Creation through the Proper Interpretive Lens
  8. Creation is a Temple: The Temple as a Meme in the Ancient Near East and Genesis 1
  9. Creation is a Temple: Moses’ Brilliant Literary and Theological Move in Genesis 1
  10. When a Day Might not be a Day
  11. Reading Genesis 1 as Literature and the Three Problems it Creates for Evangelicals
  12. How Can the Creation Account in Genesis 1 be Both History and Literature?
  13. Has Anyone Ever Read Genesis 1 Like this Before?
  14. The Paradox of Perspicuity: How Would a Regular Person Ever Understand Genesis 1 This Way?

Genesis 22: This is a Test. This is Only a Test.

abraham sacrifice isaac
Caravaggio’s The Binding of Isaac. Public domain.
  1. This is a Test. This is Only a Test.
  2. This is Only a Test, two.
  3. Metaphor is an Isomajigamabob
  4. No Metaphor is an Island

Genesis 1:1-2:3: Genesis and the Big Gnab Theory

sistine chapel creation
Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. Public domain.
  1. Genesis and the Big Gnab Theory
  2. Genesis 1:1-3: The Creation Account and Hebrew Narrative
  3. Genesis 1:1-2:3: The Creation Account as Hebrew Poiesis
  4. Genesis 1:1-2:3 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
  5. Creation – Temple – Creation
  6. Genesis 1: Cosmology or Cosmogony?

The Story of Acts

conversion paul
Caravaggio’s Conversion of St. Paul on the Way to Damascus. Public domain.
  1. The Story of Acts
  2. How to Read a Story
  3. The Beginning of Acts
  4. The Middle of Acts: Continuing the Ministry of Jesus
  5. Mount Sinai and the Pentecost: Recreating the People of God
  6. You Will be My Witnesses: In Jerusalem
  7. You Will be My Witnesses: In Judea and Samaria
  8. You Will be My Witnesses: To the Ends of the Earth
  9. We’ve Only Just Begun: The Emergence of Paul
  10. A Work that You Will Not Believe
  11. I Must Also See Rome!