Eschatology precedes soteriology. This little phrase from Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. encapsulates so much of Geerhardus Vos’ eschatological program. The phrase is meant to convey the idea that God has a plan of eschatological, consummated life laid out for Adam even before the fall into sin.  The Covenant of Works was put into place with [...]

Leonard Goppelt wrote a gem of a commentary on 1 Peter.  I’ve been studying it as I prepare to exhort on the amazingly redemptively-historical 1 Pet 1:10-12.  Here is a typical quote from Goppelt on the text: Prophecy enables the Church to understand the Christ-event preached to it as fulfillment, as eschatological salvation, and, therefore, [...]

I just invented a new Kline-esque term in “cross-transfer,” but I trust it gets at the point of what Vos is saying in The Pauline Eschatology on p. 48. The cross is represented as effecting an absolute separation between two worlds, so as to have cut loose the Apostle from the world to which he [...]

Camden covers Meredith Kline and a few of his books during this episode of Theology on the Go.

In 1 John 1:7-11, the apostle John writes: Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning.  The old commandment is the word that you have heard.  At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in [...]

In recent years it has become increasingly common for theologians to focus their attention on the sphere in which redemption occurs. The Temple motif from the Garden of Eden to the Heavenly City–New Jerusalem–is traced out in such noteworthy works as O. Palmer Robertson’s Christ of the Prophets, and Understanding the Land of the Bible; [...]

We’re full into March and every baseball fan knows what time of year it is.  Furthermore, this is an especially wonderful time of year for true Cub fans.  We have especially elevated spirits and look forward to another potential championship year.  And it’s been especially feverish for that last few.  The 2003 season had a [...]

Matthew 11:11-13 11Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the [...]