How is it that a transcendent God speaks truly of Himself, indeed genuinely of Himself, in our language? The answer is that biblical discourse[s] concerning God…are anthropomorphic in nature, and they operate according to a two-fold analogical grammar…God speaks of Himself in our language: sometimes He speaks literally, sometimes He speaks metaphorically, always He speaks […]
How is Jesus present in the Lord’s Supper?
SOURCE: RTS ORLANDO
B. B. Warfield and the Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity
by Scott R. Swain B. B. Warfield’s 1915 ISBE article on the Trinity presents the Princeton theologian’s mature thinking on the biblical bases and meaning of the doctrine and offers a revisionist interpretation of the personal names of “Father,” “Son,” and “Spirit.” Instead of interpreting the personal names of the Trinity in terms of relations of […]
Read Your Bible with Self-Denial—and Find Yourself
by Scott R. Swain Jesus’s call to take up our cross has implications for the entirety of our lives, including how we read our Bibles. Building on this conviction, Q & A 157 of the Westminster Larger Catechism counsels us to read Scripture with “self-denial.” Unfortunately, this counsel is often ignored in evangelical Bible reading, preaching, […]
The Pattern of Sound Words: Psalm 19:7-10 and 2 Timothy 1:13-14, 2:1-2
Scott Swain addresses the place of theological education within the Great Commission. Source: Westminster Fort Myers
10 Things You Should Know about Systematic Theology
by Scott R. Swain 1. Systematic theology exists because the God who knows and loves himself in the bliss of the Trinity is pleased to make himself an object of creaturely knowledge and love through holy Scripture. Theology in its essence is “wisdom”—a knowledge that is ordered to love (practical wisdom), and a love that […]
