by Josef Urban | Jun 14, 2022 | Articles
The doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son (EGS) has fallen on tough times in evangelical and Reformed circles. Though an indispensable component of classical Christian theism as confessed in the Nicene Creed, much of modern scholarship has dispensed with it in...
by Josef Urban | Jun 14, 2022 | Articles
What is the place of suffering in our theology of mission? Does suffering play any vital or necessary role in the advancement of the missionary endeavor as sovereignly determined by the purposes of God? Or is suffering merely a vocationally-occasioned circumstance...
by Josef Urban | Jun 14, 2022 | Articles
If God undergoes emotional changes, then does He experience time? Is He then acted upon by creatures and subject to what transpires in the creaturely realm? Is His Being composed of metaphysical complexity? Consider the relationship between God’s impassibility...
by Josef Urban | Jun 14, 2022 | Articles
An Exegesis of John 3:1–10 with a View to its Testimony Regarding the Agency of the New Birth The hinge upon which the door of salvation-by-sovereign-grace turns is the doctrine of the new birth conceived as a supernatural accomplishment initiated and performed by...
by Josef Urban | Jun 14, 2022 | Articles
Biblicism is alive and well today. It takes different forms and is practiced to varying degrees. Some see this as a good thing; others, as the bane of simplistic evangelical anti-intellectualism. Some believe it to be mandated by the Bible itself; others attribute it...