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1.	November 04, 2006 - Your Mom
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2.	February 28, 2006 - Penal Substitutionary Atonement and the Nature of Forgiveness
	Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. (Colossians 3:13) In the book of Colossians, Paul instructs the believers that they should "forgive" each other "as the Lord" has forgiven them... [more]
3.	May 17, 2006 - The Problem with Atonement Metaphors
	As I was making my arduous drive home the other day, I was listening to our local feed of Air1, the "positive alternative." Often, Air1 has various Christian speakers, leaders, and artists record short, 30-second lessons in Christian theology and biblical interpretation. More often tha... [more]
4.	February 26, 2006 - 42 Theses Contra Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory
	1. PSA theory asserts that sin incurs a "penalty." 2. This penalty is based upon God's decision concerning sin. 3. God's decision in this matter is free and in accordance with God's will, as there is no force which compels God to choose or act in one way or the other... [more]
5.	March 16, 2006 - Death, Darwin and Penal Substitution
	For all of its philosophical machinations, Penal Substitutionary Atonement theory (PSA) can be reduced to a very simple syllogism. A. The "penalty" of sin is death. B. Humanity has sinned. C. Therefore, humanity deserves to and must die. D. Christ has paid the &quo... [more]
6.	June 17, 2007 - Justice So-Called, Reconciliation and the Execution of a Dictator
	My thinking has been engaged recently by a series of posts made by mofast entitled "The Myth of the Redemptive Bauer." As fellow blog-o-addicts might be aware, there was previously a series of posts (the o... [more]
7.	June 17, 2007 - Good Friday?
	The words, "Good Friday" seem like somewhat of a misnomer. What is good, after all, about the brutal execution of Jesus of Nazareth? In a world in which violence dominates all media and suffuses the understanding which we have of our world, how can there be anything "good" ... [more]
8.	June 17, 2007 - The Limitation of Limited Atonement
	Recently, the theological blog-o-sphere has been in an uproar over comments made by Liberty University's Jerry Falwell wherein he suggested that Limited Atonement theory (held by many within the Reformed camp) is a heterodox theological perspective. I will not attempt to defend Falw... [more]
9.	April 26, 2007 - Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory, Sans Atonement
	Several weeks ago, I posted some reflections on the meaning of Good Friday. In this post, I suggested that the "goodness" of Christ's death (which is commemorated on this day) is not located within the violence of the cross, but rather in the ultimate victory which Christ acheived... [more]
10.	June 17, 2007 - Some Brief Thoughts on Limited Atonement
	A few weeks ago, I posted a discussion concerning the limitations of Penal Substitutionary Atonement theology, arguing that this theological perspective ultimately fails to attain to a philosophically meaningful conception of atonement i... [more]
11.	June 28, 2007 - Towards a Pauline Atonement Theology
	As anyone who knows me or reads my blog regularly will realize, I am quite fond of atonement theology. Besides the numerous posts that I have made concerning it, I have also done a significant amount of study--both personal and academic--in relation to this matter of Christian theology. As the part... [more]
12.	April 02, 2010 - The Truth About Easter
	So if you didn't realize it, Easter is only a few short days away. And yes, we are in the midst of Holy Week, even though it seems far too early in the year (the tournament isn't even over yet, for crying out loud!). Now with Easter comes some very regular and predictabl... [more]
13.	April 02, 2010 - The Truth About Easter: Conclusion
	In my last post , I described in a fair amount of detail what I call the "Truth about Easter." In popular, Western Christianity, there is an unconscious, mostly... [more]

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Welcome to my blog. I am often asked what "Exist/Dissolve" means. Well, that is certainly a good question, and I am currently in the process of discovering the answer myself. Prima facie, it strikes me as encapsulating the existensial crisis that is our lives as finite, contingent beings. For a brief moment, we exist, and the next we dissolve into the nothingness of non-existence. From a theological perspective, it is, for me, a sort of ad hoc apologetic for resurrection - i.e., if to exist/dissolve is the human dilemma, there is nothing inherent to the person that guarantees existence, either now or "after" death. Therefore, resurrection is at the same time both the height of absurdity (for it is a notion entirely alien to the paradigm of existence to which we are naturally enculturated) and the only hope for the human to persevere beyond the pale of death.