Tag Archives: ST1

Finally, we come to the end of this set of videos for the Systematic Theology I course. We end with a flourish, discussing the Adamic covenant of works established in Eden. This is a point of theology that has become increasingly compelling to me over the last few decades. What once seemed an interesting ifContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Covenant with Adam (Video 14)”

We’re closing in on the end of this series of lectures from the Systematic Theology I course that I taught in S. Asia. It would have been most natural for my portion of the ST sequence to come to an end with the doctrine of God (or Theology Proper, as it’s called), but because ofContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: The Image of God (Video 13)”

We’re coming into the home stretch on this Systematic Theology I course. This video digs into the works of God, focusing on God’s providence and its relationship to things like miracles, concursus, convergence, preservation, and so forth. It turns out that the easy distinctions that we want to make between creation and providence don’t divideContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Providence & Miracles”

In this video from the Systematic Theology I course that I taught a few months for a school in South Asia, we delve into the works of God. For the sake of clarity in discussion, the works of God (“ad extra”) are often distinguished into three categories: the divine decree, creation, providence. This video givesContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Creation Ex Nihilo”

This continues the series of videos from a recent ST1 course that I taught remotely for a seminary in S. Asia. We’re continuing to work on the doctrine of Scripture. Here we consider, in particular, how it is that we interpret Scripture. My approach is from 50,000′ and doesn’t get into the weeds of genreContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Interpretation of Scripture (Video 10)”

This ninth video in my recent systematic theology course for an amazing school in S. Asia gets into a question that I’ve been thinking about a fair amount lately, the relationship between Scripture and tradition. We Protestants sometimes get confused about how authority works and, unfortunately, can be inclined to through out the baby withContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Scripture and Tradition (Video 9)”

This eighth video (of 14 total) created for a recent Systematic Theology I course moves us from theology proper to the doctrine of Scripture or, more broadly, of revelation. I think it’s probably more typical to address the revelation before God (often as part of a “prolegomena“), but the textbook that we worked with forContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Inspiration (Video 8)”

Having made our way through the challenging waters of the doctrine of the Trinity (at least for now!), we’re moving onto talk about the divine names and attributes. As I reflected on this topic, I was pleased to find my thinking come more and more into line with the Great Tradition of Christian thought, whichContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Names and Attributes (Video 7)”

Another video on the Trinity from the Systematic Theology I course that I recently taught remotely. The primary goal here is to unpack some of the technical language that theologians use to discuss the doctrine of the Trinity: opposed relations, the filioque, inseparable operations, divine appropriations and missions, perichoresis, taxis, eternal generation, and so on.Continue reading “Systematic Theology I: Trinitarian Language (Video 6)”

Note: This article was originally written in March 2020 (at the beginning of the pandemic) and appeared on the TLI website. I debated whether or not to post it here a year after the fact, but there’s nothing in it that I disagree with fundamentally even now. I was talking with a friend who’s aContinue reading “Cyprian and the Coronavirus”