Long Walks With Theology

Theology is an eternal universe; an exploration of the eternal God. While doing theology we must plant ourselves between what we know as orthodoxy and His mystery. We can peer over one horizon but will never understand eternity.

In writing about theology, I want to ask questions. I know that there are multiple traditions in Christianity, some older than others. They all share Christ as the head of the enduring faith. We all share the root history. I do not want to arrogant. For I am convinced, in His presence, our doctrine will be/is likened to the simple cooings of a toddler attempting to understand adult matters.

I am a western evangelical protestant. I love long walks on the beach and the occasional theoretical discourse. Care to join?

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The mystery of God

Mystery is not an enemy. Answers are not the goal. For how much do we know with certainty? How much about God is revealed? We have the scriptures, through which our forefathers agreed upon some few tenants gathered together into a creed, the Apostles creed, and later the Nicene Creed. We know those things, however through them we have some dissension on meaning. We, for the majority agree upon the hypostatic union of the son. We agree upon His life, death, and resurrection. All this in great scope however is small in comparison to the entirety of the Godhead and His nature. He expects us to marvel at His complexity, to worship. He is beyond cosmic. We have studied the cosmos and know little. A hypercube is less complex than God. we can state this confidently. We know God to be eternal and a hypercube to be finite. Carl Sagan gave a fant...

A Theology of Art: Part One

Introduction A professor once challenged me to write a theology of art. I was a student at Briercrest College, graduating with a Bachelor of Art in Theology. During my exit interview, from my statement of beliefs, the professor drew attention to an errant vacuum in what I had hastily drawn up. “You are an artist. Why isn’t this reflected here?” He asked. I was embarrassed. As an artist and theologian, I had failed. One of the most distinct characteristics of my person was left out of how I relate to God. What came after was grace. He, and the other professor attending, offered a conditional pass. From there he issued his challenge to me first as an artist (the manner in how he related to me) and second a theologian, was to arrive at a personal theology of art. It has been six years since I graduated. Challenge accepted. Chapter One What is Art? Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Art is necessary. I...

What I did not say

A comment was made on my recent post from a former colleague and friend. It cut at something I should have been more precise with. The very word “complexity” is multi-faceted. What I provided was an oversimplification. In terms of the nature of God, my use of complexity could be read and attributed to three things: character, oneness, and substance. What I was referring to was the latter, substance. God’s substance, his being, is eternal. The due criticism pointed to me using complexity as a misattribution to God’s character and oneness. Further points of the critique alluded to a traditional sense of the word complex: being comprised of multiple things. While I wholeheartedly agree with this critique, and am indeed in line with Him being one, if I am to harangue anything, it is that the understandability of God’s substance is on the line, not the complexity of his character, or His oneness. We know, through Scriptures, of God’s character, primarily His love towards us. ...

Chasing The Light

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