by Jean Barbey | Feb 16, 2025 | Anthropology, Genesis, Scripture, Spirituality
Biblical marriage is based on a conception founded on the very creation of man and woman. Drawn from the same primordial individual before being differentiated in their animality, their coming together re-establishes this unity in the blending of two lives into one....
by Jean Barbey | Dec 8, 2024 | Christology
The question is intentionally provocative: it all depends on what one means by “Christian.” For me, a Christian is someone who believes in Christ. However, from the perspective of historical Protestantism, which is where I stand, being a Christian means...
by Jean Barbey | Jun 23, 2024 | Christianity, Prolegomena, Reformation, Scripture
What place does the Bible have in the Christian faith? Historic Protestantism has considered it to be God’s written revelation, and therefore the only ultimate standard for faith, Christian life and the organisation of the church. 1 Sola Scriptura In...
by Jean Barbey | Jan 29, 2024 | Christology, Ecclesiology, Soteriology
The Christian Church is sometimes conceived as one or more religious institutions, created in apostolic times or in times of spiritual renewal such as the Protestant Reformation. However, the biblical conception of the Church is spiritual, organic and mysterious: the...
by Jean Barbey | Sep 27, 2023 | Reformation, Soteriology
Scripture proclaims the omniscience and omnipotence of God, who therefore knows in advance who will believe in Jesus Christ to receive the salvation acquired by his death on the Cross. But do the ‘saints’ believe because God has chosen them, or has God...
