Have You Seen God Lately?
Two big Sundays in the Church Year have just come and gone. Pentecost is the commemoration of the coming of the Holy Spirit in power on...
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Salvation: What about Everything Else?
The first psalm in the Bible focuses on the holy individual. The last one issues a call to all of creation: “Let every thing that hath...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Salvation Theology 102: Problem & Solution
salvation is quite complex because the problem from which we need to be saved is neither single nor simple. Christian depictions of sin and
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Salvation Theology 101
Salvation is a big topic. Arguably, it is The Big Topic, the central theme of the Bible as it is the fundamental issue of human existence.
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- 6 min
Universalism 101: Good Hope? Good Theology?
If God wants everyone to be saved, and God can and does save at least some, then why would God not save everyone?
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Size Doesn't Matter
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry...
Deconstructing Deconstruction
This new deconstruction means each person devises a religion matching his or her highest aspirations and deepest intuitions.
Gender & Realized or Over-Realized Eschatology
What would our understanding of gender look like, however, if we took the “already, but not yet” principle seriously?
The Feast of the Holy Name
In the recent Marvel series “Loki,” a character refers to the master of the universe as “He Who Remains.” That is all: the one who...
Parables & Propositions
Scholars of religion well into middle age, as I am, remember the excitement of the so-called narrative school of theology breaking over...
Stackhouse on Wolterstorff on Kant
Here and here are two recent posts, for Christian Scholar’s Review, on my recent reading of an essay by Christian philosopher Nicholas...
Spiritual Gifts
Reading I Corinthians 12 this morning, under the tutelage of John Barclay’s excellent Paul and the Power of Grace, I’m reminded of my...
Jesus Mocks
Paul doesn’t speak of Jesus who just died, but of Jesus who was crucified. He thus drives the stake of the Cross into the heart of...
Holy Week Prayers: What Do We Really Want?
Holy Week brings into focus a number of Big Questions. Among the most searching is this: What do we want? In particular, what do we want...
Is Hell Eternal?
People don’t suffer and die in hell because God chooses to torture and kill them.
Don’t Ask Me to Pray
Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Christianity and Other Religions: Clarifying Terms & Issues
how Christians are to understand other religions, the destiny of the unevangelized, the basis for salvation, the nature of general and spec
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Evangelicals, World Religions, and the Destiny of the Unevangelized: What Is “Inclusivism"
What is at stake goes far beyond the question of evangelical missionary work.
Is Christianity Anti-Semitic?
The recent synagogue shooting in Poway, California, has focused attention on an abiding question regarding Christians and Jews: Is...
What in Hell Is Going on?
The Walrus, a magazine not renowned for a sustained interest in Christian thought, in its April number commendably features a review...
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Understand key ideas in important Christian theology, ethics, and history in 30 minutes (or less!) in ThinkBetter Media's mini-courses, created by award-winning theologian and historian Dr. John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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