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A Patristics Primer

Posted on June 10, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

I spent the past few days on Facebook debating soon-to-be-Socinians in the CBMW on why you shouldn’t tinker with the Trinity.  Some friends have asked me for a primer on basic Patristics texts.  This is more or less an impossible … Continue reading →

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T. F. Torrance (Intellectual Biography)

Posted on January 2, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

This book is divided into two parts: a brief treatment of Torrance’s life and an examination of his thought. His parents were missionaries to China and fostered a deep piety and evangelistic zeal in the young Torrance. Torrance grew up … Continue reading →

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Torrance: Theology in Reconstruction

Posted on December 24, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

Torrance advances the argument that theological knowledge and its communication must make use of the thought-currents and speech in the world. He makes the claim that Homoousion as the basic logical economy which governs theological grammar in accordance with the … Continue reading →

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Reading thinkers, not individual books

Posted on December 22, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

You will often see it suggested that one is better served by reading the corpus of major thinkers rather than simply individual books.  I think there is some wisdom to that.  So here is my reading list for 2016, Deo … Continue reading →

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Jesus will “go bail for God.”

Posted on December 20, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

No, there are no dark spots in God of which we need to be afraid; there is nothing in God for which Jesus Christ does not go bail in virtue of the perfect oneness in being and nature between God … Continue reading →

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Vindicae Torrance Contra Orthodox Bridge

Posted on December 16, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

Normally when I respond to Orthodox Bridge, I am trying to refute them and vindicate Reformed theology.  This post will be different.  Orthodox Bridge, in a move completely out of character for them, examined a high-profile Reformed theologian’s work. I … Continue reading →

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Outline Torrance Trinitarian Faith

Posted on December 13, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

Chapter 1 1.  Christ is himself the content of God’s self-revelation We know the Father through his Son. Christ’s vicarious humanity he did not come in a man but as man. Christ ministers the things of God to man and … Continue reading →

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Torrance on Essence/Energies

Posted on December 12, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

From The Trinitarian Faith  When the Holy Spirit is given to us, God is in us, and if the homoousion holds true, then Christ is in us.  “It is not merely by his power or operation, but God himself is present … Continue reading →

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Reading Torrance and not being postmodern

Posted on December 8, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

In my recent debate with a Gnostic Magus on a Reformed facebook forum, I was accused of being “postmodern.”  First, what does postmodern even mean?  The well-informed reader knows this is a trick question.  Even if you give the correct … Continue reading →

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The Nicene Ordo Theologia

Posted on December 7, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

From Thomas Torrance, Trinitarian faith The triune God’s activity Godward relations: From the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit. manward relations: in the Spirit, through the Son and to the Father.

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