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Soteriology
What Is the Gospel?
The gospel is news before it is advice — an announcement about what God has done in Jesus Christ. This essay traces its shape from the apostolic preaching.
gospel · grace · faith
Soteriology
Justification by Faith Alone
How can a sinner stand in the judgment? The Reformation answer — justification by faith alone, on account of Christ alone — traced through Romans and Galatians.
justification · faith · grace · reformation
Christology
The Atonement as Victory and Substitution
Christus Victor or penal substitution? The cross is a many-sided jewel, and the classic "theories" of atonement are facets, not rivals.
atonement · cross · gospel
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Soteriology
What Is the Gospel?
The gospel is news before it is advice — an announcement about what God has done in Jesus Christ. This essay traces its shape from the apostolic preaching.
gospel · grace · faith
Soteriology
Sanctification: The Long Obedience
Justification is a verdict; sanctification is a road. On the Spirit's slow work of making saints out of the justified — and why effort is not the enemy of grace.
sanctification · holiness · spirit · discipleship
Soteriology
Justification by Faith Alone
How can a sinner stand in the judgment? The Reformation answer — justification by faith alone, on account of Christ alone — traced through Romans and Galatians.
justification · faith · grace · reformation
Soteriology
Union with Christ
Every saving benefit — justification, sanctification, adoption, glory — is found "in Christ." Union with Christ is the architecture of the whole order of salvation.
union-with-christ · salvation · spirit
Christology
The Word Became Flesh
John 1:14 in five words overturns every philosophy of its age. An essay on the incarnation — why God the Son took a human nature, and why it matters that he kept it.
incarnation · christology · john
Christology
The Atonement as Victory and Substitution
Christus Victor or penal substitution? The cross is a many-sided jewel, and the classic "theories" of atonement are facets, not rivals.
atonement · cross · gospel
Doctrine of God
Creation Out of Nothing
Creatio ex nihilo is less a claim about cosmic chronology than about God's relation to everything that is not God — and it changes how you read Genesis 1.
creation · genesis · doctrine-of-god