Category Archives: Theopolis

You Shall Call His Name Joshua

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Alastair Roberts

I have an article on the Theopolis website, exploring some of the reasons for the naming of Jesus. That ‘Jesus’ would be the name chosen for the Son in his incarnation might seem underwhelming. As a Greek form of the name … Continue reading →

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The Death of the Queen and a Christian Understanding of Sovereignty

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Alastair Roberts

I wrote a piece for Theopolis on the subject of a Christian understanding of sovereignty, occasioned by the death of HM the Queen. For a woman in nominal possession of such vast powers, perhaps few things left strangers to the British … Continue reading →

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The Church’s Book—A Theopolis Conversation with Brad East

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Alastair Roberts

In the latest Theopolis Conversation, I discuss Brad East’s recently published work, The Church’s Book: Theologies of Scripture in Ecclesial Context, which explores the relationship between bibliology (the doctrine of Scripture) and ecclesiology in the work of Karl Barth and … Continue reading →

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Trinity in Creation

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Alastair Roberts

I have written a piece in response to the most recent Theopolis Conversation on the subject of the Trinity in creation. By leaning into identifying the Logos with God revealed in the singularity of his act (and even declared prior … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Creation, Doctrine of God, Genesis, Guest Post, NT Theology, OT, OT Theology, The Triune God, Theological, Theopolis | 2 Comments

Renewing Our Media Ecosystem

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Alastair Roberts

I’ve written an article in the latest Theopolis Conversation, in response to Jeffrey Bilbro’s superb opening essay. Each of the supposed negative freedoms we now enjoy have their threatening flipside. Freedom from isolation has brought a stiflingly dense sociality in … Continue reading →

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The Dignity of the Laity: Protestant Politics and Papal Pretensions

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Alastair Roberts

In the latest Theopolis conversation, I respond to Pater Edmund Waldstein’s article in which he criticizes the new nationalism of Yoram Hazony and others from a Roman Catholic integralist perspective. The imperial ambitions of the papacy have long been criticized … Continue reading →

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The Virtues of Dominion

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Alastair Roberts

In response to Aaron Renn’s recent conversation starter over on the Theopolis blog, I’ve written on the subject of what is missing in many Christian approaches to masculinity. What the manosphere and others of the teachers that Renn identifies recognize … Continue reading →

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Exegetical Rules

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Alastair Roberts

In the latest round of our Theopolitan Conversations, Peter Leithart kicked off a discussion of exegesis and exegetical method. I wrote the first response, which was published yesterday. In the absence of articulated rules and principles, the authority of Scripture … Continue reading →

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The Christian Art of Dying Well

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Alastair Roberts

A piece of mine has just been posted over on the Theopolis Institute blog, in which I respond to Kimbell Kornu’s conversation-starting essay, The Nihilism of Modern Medicine. Modernity, however, lacks the capacity successfully to reckon either with life or with death. When life … Continue reading →

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The Rhetoric of Race

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Alastair Roberts

I have written an article in the latest Theopolis Conversation on the subject of race, in response to Vincent Bacote. Within it I briefly discuss a few of my concerns about the rhetorical shape of current conversations about race in … Continue reading →

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