Nielsen’s Nook

An Unraveling MysteryIt was as if living in Russia (2000-2002) had provided the snag in my garment the fabric of which began to unwind at increasing rates. We arrived in Russia believing that it was only an exceptional case for a Russian Orthodox person to be a Christian. We left having met many Russian Orthodox who were irrefutably beautiful Christians, ...

My wife and I are reading through a most contemplation evoking paper presently on the Eucharist that has sparked a great wonder and awe of God in me. Traditionally, we have thought of God as being of infinitely greater and altogether different kind of being from which we have our being analogously. Even so, one of my favorite theologians begins ...

See also Christ the Conqueror (1 John 3:8)Herman Bavinck Our Reasonable Faith, p ...

Mary enjoyed a high honor, an honor greater than the prophets and apostles ever had. She is the blessed, the favored, among women, and the mother of the Lord. Bavinck, Herman. Our Reasonable Faith. p 336. The person born of the Virgin Mary was a divine person. He was the Son of God. It is, therefore, correct to say that ...

All things are of God, through Him, and unto Him. Hence our soul can rest in it with unperturbed certainty. It is God’s will, his eternal, independent, and immutable will, that in the church [humanity] be restored and saved. We are convinced of this comfort of election even more when we remember that the counsel of God ...

If God and his human creatures can only be conceived as competitors, and if the one can only retain his freedom and independence at the expense of the other, then God has to be increasingly restricted both in knowledge and in will. Pelagianism, accordingly, banishes God from his world. It leads both to Deism and atheism and enthrones ...