Limited Epistemology and the Place of the Lost in Cosmology (II)

Modern Christians lament the sixteenth century Copernican Shift which initiated the reformulation of not just cosmology but epistemology and more fundamental questions such as meaning, teleology, and to what extent truth can be ascertained. If man and the Earth he inhabits is not the centre of the universe, then just what does that say?

Heiser's Unseen Realm and the Divine Council (Part 3)

While I would love to recommend Heiser's works to family and friends, I cannot do so in good conscience. I know some would benefit from the conversation and an encounter with the topics he brings up and the Scriptural data he very effectively utilises. But buried in, around and in-between the lines are assumptions that can only be described as theologically liberal.

Heiser's Unseen Realm and the Divine Council (Part 2)

For me the tragedy is that Protestant Scholasticism created a theological paradigm that had little room for spiritual duality and tension. Because of historical abuses, the twisted absolute dualism of the Gnostics, Cathars and others there's been a strong monistic push since the 17^th century to resolve all tensions under the umbrella of Divine Sovereignty. This is pushed to an extreme in the theology embraced by many if not most contemporary Calvinists.

Heiser's Unseen Realm and the Divine Council (Part 1)

I first started thinking about the Divine Council many years ago when reading the works of Meredith Kline. In particular his 2001 commentary on Zechariah's night visions proved a thrilling read and stirred me on several investigative fronts. To this day it remains a favourite and I frequently re-visit it. Not only did it feed my already growing interest in Redemptive-Historical hermeneutics, it started me down a path of investigating typology and symbols and subsequently I discovered there were vast untapped riches to be found in the Scriptures, a treasure trove of revelation concerning the celestial realms and the mechanisms by which God has ordered the universe.