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 | Aug 18, 2023 | Philosophy, Prolegomena, Theology proper
If we consider the problem of Being as the question of whether it is fundamentally One or Many, then Plato’s dialogue Parmenides seems to answer with the undecidable. According to the theologian Cornelius Van Til, this conclusion is reached if no distinction is...
by Jean Barbey | May 15, 2022 | Prolegomena
We propose here a few guidelines for an evangelical theology, i.e. a Protestant theology of the Gospel. Introduction: multiple sources and influences In the article “What is an evangelical theology?”, we distinguished three concentric dimensions: the...
by Jean Barbey | May 15, 2022 | Prolegomena, Scripture
In this article we define what we mean by an ‘evangelical’ theology, based on three concentric levels: the Gospel, Christian doctrine and philosophy. Introduction: Evangelicalism and Protestantism Evangelical and Protestant churches When we read the...