Showing posts with label Devotional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Devotional. Show all posts

Saturday, February 15, 2020

Saturday, November 09, 2019

In thy light we see light

A lot of stuff I post on Triablogue is out of duty rather than personal satisfaction. The culture war stuff. Atheism. Catholicism, Islam. And so on. It's necessary to write about these things.

But sometimes I write about things I personally care about. Over the years I did a number of posts on the biblical symbolism of light and darkness. Recently, a friend edited all the posts into an ebook. For interested readers, here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1roZD7ebH2y0V2jMk4GH8lCeTMi5Ht33F

Edit: The above file has been edited and updated at approximately 5pm EST (Nov 9, 2019) to fix some errors in the previous file.

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Calvinism as devotional theology

From a devotional standpoint, Calvinism has two centripetal orientations:

i) Our absolute dependence on God as creatures

ii) Our absolute dependence on God as sinners

(ii) presupposes (i), but (ii) deepens the sense of helplessness and indebtedness.