Category: Historical Theology

Event website Hosted at the Biola Library - hours here Lecture series begins Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 6 p.m. All are welcome. From the...

The main protagonist of Reflecting the Son (Zondervan 2026) is also the protagonist of the most popular book in human history, with over five...

My research has primarily focused on warfare in the ancient Near East and the implications of that context for understanding the Old Testament....

When I teach or preach from the Gospels, I always bring in relevant aspects of the historical and cultural background. Including such details not...

When I first came to seminary, I called myself an Arminian. That wasn’t true, really. The reality was that I just didn’t like people I knew who...

Can We Build a Case Using only Non-Christian Scholars and Seven Hollywood Hits? [A video of Dr. Williams presenting this case can be found here....

Carmen Imes is on a bit of a roll lately. You may have seen Tim Tebow mention Carmen Imes regarding her last book, Being God’s Image: Why Creation...

Today is the anniversary of Polycarp’s death, roughly 1,870 years ago (exact date is disputed). What can we learn from his life and ministry?...

The New Testament clearly presents the Holy Spirit as a person. The Spirit is described as doing things and experiencing things that only make...

When talking about desert spirituality, John Cassian’s Conferences must be a key resource. In Cassian’s work, we find him and his friend Germanus...

In Philippians 1:19, Paul writes, “for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my ...

In our previous post, we discussed faith in Gideon’s story. Here in Part Two, we discuss the remaining three individuals from Judges who are...

Hebrews 11:32-34 mentions four infamous individuals from the book of Judges (ordered Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah). [1] But these four are...

Most of you have probably heard of Josephus. An enormous amount of what we know about the history and culture of the Jewish people in and around...

This is a Q&A blog post by our Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question When did certain believers in the New Testament...

I opened my Greek Bible this morning (that is, the day I originally wrote this) simply to read God’s Word. I looked down at the first three words...

Ken Berding (KB): Thanks for being willing to be interviewed about your recent book, Global Revival: How a City’s Mission Catalysed a Worldwide...

It has become trendy in recent years to publicly proclaim that Joy to the World was not originally written as a song about Christ’s First Coming,...

We get information about the world from an array of sources. A little reflection makes this more or less impossible to avoid believing. We use our...

Sometime during my upper teen years, I read the journal of David Brainerd (1718-1747), and like so many people before me was deeply influenced by...

How do you understand the I AM name for God in relation to your views on time and eternity?

Your question is not about Jesus’ ability to sin, but about his conscious knowledge: “Was Jesus aware that he could not sin?” Your answer, “Yes, he knows that he could not sin,” does not actually address the question. The question was not whether Jesus knew that he could not sin, but whether he was aware that he could not sin.

Can archaeology shed light on the first prophecy about Jesus in the Bible? A portion of God’s curse of the serpent in Genesis 3:15 is known as the...

One of the courses I teach regularly at Talbot School of Theology is Biblical Backgrounds. It’s a class designed for Bible, Theology, and Ministry...

Was the Apostle Paul effective as a public speaker or not? Was Paul’s facility in rhetoric strong or weak? New Testament scholars disagree on how...