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Scott Carr, Jr.
Apr 29, 20204 min read
Review: The Significance of Singleness by Christian S. Hitchcock
Christina S. Hitchcock’s The Significance of Singleness seeks to address the dearth of theological literature on the subject of...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Feb 27, 20206 min read
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Over the millennia, Christians have confessed the Holy Spirit as fully God, distinct from the Father and the Son as the third person of...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Feb 20, 20205 min read
Bultmann, Jesus, and Myth
Rudolf Bultmann, in Kerygma and Myth, argues that the New Testament is clouded with mythology which modern persons cannot accept. To...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Feb 14, 20204 min read
The Task of Theology
The present essay will focus on the task of theology, specifically changes in defining theology through the methods of Kant,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Nov 18, 20194 min read
The Copernican Revolution of Theology
The present essay will focus on the task of theology, specifically changes in defining theology through the methods of Kant,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Oct 31, 20194 min read
Everyone Together
"Even as the congregation meets in separate groups, they are united around the same shared text."
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Oct 9, 20192 min read
The Dance of Philosophy and Theology
St. Anselm of Canterbury begins his significant philosophical text, the Proslogion, with a prayer. In it, he reveals his desire to see...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Sep 9, 20194 min read
A Hunger for God in The Good Place
NBC’s critically-acclaimed comedy series, The Good Place, now on its fourth and final season, asks surprisingly serious questions: what...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 26, 20193 min read
The Kingdom and the Cross: Examing Critiques of Bultmann's New Testament Reading
Over forty years after his death, Rudolf Bultmann continues to draw sharp critiques from New Testament scholars, betraying the continuing...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 12, 20194 min read
Are Humans "Thinking Things"?
James K. A Smith criticizes modern philosophy for reducing humans to “brains-on-a-stick” (Smith 3). He particularly singles out Rene...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jul 6, 20193 min read
Encountering the Hounds in Homeless Ministry
Howard Thurman wrote in his classic work, Jesus and the Disinherited, a series of observations rooted in Jesus’ identity as a poor Jew,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 28, 20193 min read
Power and Ministry
In Playing God, Andy Crouch provides a fascinating exploration of power, which he associates with God's creative actions in Genesis 1 and...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 28, 20194 min read
Faith Seeking Understanding: Does God Exist?
The Medieval theologian/philosophers endeavored to “demonstrate through logic and argument what [they] believe by faith” (Cleveland 163)....
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 21, 20193 min read
Finding Church Leadership in a New Era
Tod Bolsinger highlights that in an age of Christendom’s decline in the Western world, pastors are ill-equipped to lead through the...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 19, 20195 min read
Commencement Sermon: Life With God
I want to focus my reflection this evening on Jesus’ part in this exchange. Christians affirm God as all-knowing and, so, usually focus...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Jun 15, 20193 min read
More or Full?
The folding chairs used for chapel at my Christian high school were always uncomfortable. I found myself squirming in my seat as much...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
May 21, 20195 min read
The Biblical Vision of Sexuality
The biblical story begins with God’s act of creation. At the start, God creates humanity in His image: “So God created mankind in his...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
May 8, 20192 min read
Christians and Government
Government exists to order society and to ensure the obedience of its citizens (Augustine 157). It orders goods given by God “suitable...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Apr 15, 20192 min read
The Christian Tradition of Sexual Fidelity
The Christian’s body is designed for union with Christ and thus, belongs to Him (CRC Report 2019 p. 28). All other relationships a...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Suffering, Vocation, and Celibacy
Calvin emphasizes that Christians are those who are “consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak,...
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