Bug or Feature? The Complexity of the Church Fathers
“When we labor over the things we read, we end up sharpening our spiritual intellects more than if we were told the truth directly.”
“When we labor over the things we read, we end up sharpening our spiritual intellects more than if we were told the truth directly.”
By elevating Thomas to almost canonical status, well-intentioned retrieval theologians may well have opened a floodgate that won’t be shut before many have abandoned Protestantism.
Benjamin Gladd explains how connections between the Old and New Testaments reveal the Bible’s overarching story of redemption.
Whatever happens to either Christ’s human or divine natures happens to the person.
The Hebrew text of Isaiah 53:11 refers to God’s crediting of righteousness to the ‘many’ on behalf of the servant’s work.
The work of Christ in Romans includes references to key points in Jesus’s life as they are presented in the Gospels.
Matt Harmon and Ben Gladd examine Mark 4:35–41 and show how the stilling of the storm reveals Jesus as the faithful prophet, the greater David, the true Joshua, and Yahweh in the flesh.
The Spirit-filled life is committed to believing the Scripture and to obeying it from the heart.
The Corinthians had rightly valued this meal as ‘imperial,’ but they forgot who the true ‘emperor’ was.
The time-tested categories of Jesus’s humiliation and exaltation, coupled with his threefold office, are biblical ways to think about the priesthood of Christ in Hebrews.
The new April 2026 issue of ‘Themelios’ has 239 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews.
Boaz and Ruth trade promiscuity for restraint, inhospitality for generosity, and seductive idolatry for covenant faithfulness.
God’s Word must be heard rightly, proclaimed accurately, and obeyed fully.
In 2033, Passover and Good Friday will fall in the same week, as they did in the year of Jesus’s death.
As Jesus hangs on the cross, he embodies Israel in exile.