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David ⚓️

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Historical Theology / (Eng) Reformation doctoral student @DukeDivinity. MDiv @Wycliffe_UofT. Anglican (TEC) Priest, @Epidallas Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum

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No. Sola scriptura means God's opinion against all of ours
James Dueck🇻🇦 (@JamesDueck) profile pictureJames Dueck🇻🇦
@JamesDueckOct 27
Sola Scriptura means your opinion against mine. There’s no way Christ would have set it up like that. The Church is real.
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Participatory metaphysics does not prevent philosophical materialism. Spinoza: "Therefore, since our mind—simply from the fact that it contains God's Nature objectively in itself, and participates in it—has the power to form certain notions which explain the nature of things...
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...and teach us how to conduct our lives, we can rightly maintain that the nature of the mind, insofar as it is conceived in this way, is the first cause of divine revelation."
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Luther was concerned to deny any anthropological loci for salvation (i.e., any 'ontologizing soteriology'). The preceding tradition—i.e., the soul's God-like character and the will's ability to merit God's favor—were built upon a false anthropological foundation. (1/2)
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The hiddenness of God no longer referred to an apophatic distance, but the blindness of reason to God's manifestation in Christ sub contraris. This was not a relation of proportionality, but of hypostatic identity. Love required a proportionate object; faith did not. (2/2)
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Most critiques of Calvin's predestination on here are just critiques of Christian theology. You might think Pelagianism gets you a nicer god, but by losing the gospel, you are left with a cruel tyrant. The doctrine of predestination functions to ground justification by faith
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I like Luther more than Calvin on predestination, but I'd take either over even 'soft' Pelagianism
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"An object in motion will remain in motion" is genuinely counterintuitive, outside a culture where newton's mechanics are taken for granted. Without the idea of gravity as a force, the most straightforward explanation of how objects on earth move is that solid matter has
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“I am the Ghost of Christmas Future Imperfect Conditional” said the Spirit. “I bring news of what would have been going to happen, if you were not to have been going to change your ways.”
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“But while I question [Max Weber’s disenchantment thesis], I think we could do with more disenchantment of one area of existence—the sphere of politics.” firstthings.com/angels-and-k…
Angels and Kingdoms - First Things

Angels and Kingdoms - First Things

We are familiar with the “disenchantment” thesis about modern culture. When Max Weber suggested it in the early twentieth century, it seemed to fit many aspects of Western life...

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A little ✨teleological suspension of the ethical✨ as a treat
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UPDATE: these theological topics/phrases are on pause indefinitely: "embodiment" "I just want to name that..." Jesus v. Paul / NT v. OT Christianity as the "fulfillment" of Judaism "Bibliolatry" "The Church gave you the Bible" universalism/annihilationism "idol of certitude"
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Hopefully, we'll have things figured out by the new year. Until then, we gotta find something else to talk about. Maybe the Bible?
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Matthew J. Milliner (@millinerd) profile pictureMatthew J. Milliner@millinerd11 Dec 2025
That time Jesus missed his chance to write a bestseller on universalism. "And someone said to him, 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' And he said to them, 'Strive to enter through the narrow door...'" (Luke 13:24).
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(the critique of) natural theology does not apply to the order of the world according to Scripture (qua creation). The Gospel does not do away with the world *as God's creation.* The world (*acc to Scripture / as creation*) reveals God. 1 Cor 3:19 Paul also wrote Rom 1.
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1) Charismatic non-denom in rural Louisiana 2) Joel Osteen's church for a decade or so 3) More charismatic non-denom churches 4) Anglican (TEC)
Jeremy ⚓ (@the_thin_place) profile pictureJeremy ⚓@the_thin_place8 Dec 2025
What does your church/denomination journey look like? 1) Baptist (SBC) 2) Anglican (TEC)
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The Church Fathers warn against cleaving to the literal sense alone, not because they don't think the literal meaning is true. Rather, its a warning against halting the letter's reach into our (forms of) life, which reaching is the Christian view of spiritual formation.
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The whole purpose of spiritual interpretation is that Christian life-- including the life of the church-- simply *is* the reading of Scripture from God and about everything, in Christ. Or: spiritual formation is for the ability to read Scripture, to find and be found in Christ.
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