Eight years ago today, nineteen men perpetrated the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. The 9/11 attacks scarred our collective psyche permanently; if you’re like most people, you probably remember where you were when you first heard that planes had crashed into the Twin Towers and into the Pentagon. You may also remember the outpouring
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For this Fish Tank post, I thought I’d share a letter I recently wrote to Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum about baptism and God’s plan of salvation. Mr. Edelen (I feel bad calling him “Dan”) recently wrote a post explaining how to become a Christian – a post with which I respectfully disagreed. Because I
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(For parts I and II of this series please click here and here) My purpose this week will be purely destructive; I will be considering and rejecting three theories of the atonement in light of the criteria that I developed in my last two posts concerning atonement theology. I hope to treat them fairly, in
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Last week, I spent some time laying out a theory of sin and tracing its implications for our evaluations of various atonement theologies. This week, I will press on by looking at several more considerations that will point us toward a proper understanding of the cross. It is not my purpose here to suggest any
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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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At the recommendation of our very own dearly beloved John Joseph Porter, I recently spent some time thinking about this article by Tim Bayne at Oxford and Greg Restall at the University of Melbourne. Bayne and Restall consider several common models of the atonement in succession and, finding each one wanting, propose their own –
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We are pleased to introduce the first installment of “The Dispatch,” a new feature in which students from schools all across New England will tackle a single topic together. This issue’s question is: Why Christ? Samir Paul, Harvard The temptation in approaching the question, “Why Jesus?” is to step into the Nietzschean contest of wills
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