“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 In the past couple weeks, I have had two atheists suggest something to me which never even occurred to me when I was deciding to become
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The first English class I took at Harvard covered the sweep of English literature from the beginnings of the language to 1660. The writer of Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton—all were represented, and yet the work that most moved me was a relatively unknown poem, The Dream of the Rood, written perhaps in the seventh century
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In the past couple months, I have become more and more interested in the nature of the Atonement. I have read a few different articles on the subject, including a two-part series on our very own Fish Tank (see here and here) and this paper. Of course, there are several paths of inquiry concerning the
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Last week, I set out to achieve a deeper understanding of Jesus on the cross by reflecting on one popular understanding of sin, which I characterized as dispositional because it identifies the sinfulness of actions with God’s dispositions towards them. On a dispositional view of sin, I argued, it makes sense to wonder why God
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