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Plato (427–347) by John M. Frame

Plato was the greatest student of Socrates and one of the greatest philosophers of all time. The greatest philosophers (among whom I include also Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and Hegel) tend to be those who bring together many ideas that at first seem disparate. As an example: Parmenides said that Being is fundamentally changeless, Heraclitus that …

Two Worlds by David Talcott

Plato famously creates “two worlds”: the world perceived by the senses and the world perceived by the mind. The world of the senses is impermanent and shifting (more on that later), while the world of reason is eternal and unchanging. Individual things may become more or less beautiful, but beauty itself never changes. Individual dogs may …

The Self-Testimony of Jesus by O. Palmer Robertson

Central to the whole of the gospel, the “good news” of Christianity, is the person of Jesus. Apart from Jesus, there would be no Christian religion. At the same time, a person’s view of Jesus will inevitably define the character of the “Christianity” that he propounds. Essentially two basic views of Jesus may be proposed, …

The War between the Seeds by Owen Strachan

The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:2) It was a tree that damned us. It was a tree that redeemed us. And it will be a tree that heals us in the age to come—time beyond all time. Trees are not the central motif of the Bible. But trees …

Assurance by Mark Jones

“I am not at all surprised at this strange and absonous language; it is a false and dangerous conclusion, yet such as naturally results from, and, by a kind of necessity, follows out of their other errors.” —John Flavel[1] The doctrine of assurance has received copious attention from Reformed theologians.[2] The debates within the Reformed world …