Jan 19, 2016 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Review of Lazar Puhalo’s Gehenna: The Nature of Hell, According to the Orthodox Christian Church (Dewdney: Synaxis Press, 2012), 204 pages. Available HERE. Eschatological judgment and reward has been back on the table for theological discussion in a renewed way over...
Jan 11, 2016 | Author - Brad Jersak
Various diseases have been labeled “the silent killer.” For example, “hypertension” is called the silent killer because it increases the risk of heart disease and strokes, two of the top causes of death in America. Other emotional and spiritual diseases could compete...
Dec 29, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” —Matthew 2:1-2 I dropped...
Dec 24, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak
Biblical Scholar, David Miller has weighed in on the question about whether Christians and Muslims worship the same Allah. The following is his introduction with a link to the full article, followed by a response from Brad Jersak. Taxonomies of Deity: Do Christians...
Dec 18, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak
Abstract This article encourages readers to press past recent debates on the nature of eschatological hell to examine those NT uses of gehenna and hades that cannot be interpreted as afterlife states. The author demonstrates how these texts—Jms. 3:6, Matt. 23:15 and...
Dec 11, 2015 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor Edited by Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil Oxford University Press, 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor is the most recent in the Oxford Handbooks series, and as usual, provides...
