Imago Dei

Theological Studies

Scripture, history, and the weighing of tradition.

Full studies rather than chapter companions. Where the evidence is strong we say so; where it is late, thin, or legendary, we say that too — and we mark which of the three is which.

On method

I

What the text says

Plain exegesis. The passage in its own setting, before anyone draws a conclusion from it.

II

What the apostles made of it

How the New Testament reads the Old — authoritative, and a different act from the first.

III

What the church said later

Fathers, councils, and traditions. Weighed, dated, and never quietly promoted to Scripture.

Contents

IOld Testament

5 series

  1. 01Abraham

    A hundred years between promise and child, read chapter by chapter — where the New Testament picks the story up, where later tradition adds to it, and where the text is left to speak for itself.

    Genesis · Acts · Galatians · Hebrews — Complete · 16 parts

  2. 02Noah

    Genesis 6–9 read as real history and the New Testament's own typology at once — judgment, an unlikely grace, and a covenant stretched over the whole earth before it narrows to one family.

    Genesis · Hebrews · 2 Peter · Isaiah — Complete · 6 parts

  3. 03The Twelve Sons of Israel

    Twelve sons, twelve names spoken as prayers or wounds at birth — and the blessings Jacob spoke over each on his deathbed, tracked all the way to where they land in the rest of Scripture.

    Genesis · Exodus · Isaiah · 1 Chronicles — Complete · 12 parts

  4. 04David

    The most fully documented human being in the Old Testament, sins and psalms both left on the page — read in order, from the secret anointing to the throne handed on, without editing out either half.

    1 Samuel · 2 Samuel · Psalm · 1 Kings — Complete · 10 parts

  5. 05Solomon

    One reign holding both the highest and one of the saddest turns in the Old Testament, often a few chapters apart — the king who asked for wisdom and ended his life with a heart turned away.

    1 Kings · Matthew · 1 Corinthians — Complete · 6 parts

IIBiblical Theology

1 series

  1. 06Jesus in All Scripture

    The whole Bible read as one story with a Person-sized hole in it — from the first promise in Eden, through four Gospels, to the Lamb still standing as though slain on the throne in Revelation.

    Genesis · Isaiah · Matthew · John — Complete · 3 parts

IIIHistory of Christianity

1 series

  1. 07The Twelve Apostles

    The men Jesus called — what Scripture says, what tradition adds, and how honestly each claim holds up.

    Matthew · John · Mark · Acts — Complete · 12 parts

IVSystematic Theology

2 series

  1. 08Love and the Necessity of the Trinity

    A philosophical argument that the Trinity is not arbitrary — that a God who is love could not be otherwise.

    John · Romans · 1 John — Complete · 4 parts

  2. 09The Monarchy of the Father

    The Father alone as the source of the Son and the Spirit — worked out in Carthage and Alexandria, and carried by an African bishop into a church that confesses it still.

    Deuteronomy · 1 Corinthians · John · Acts — Complete · 4 parts

In preparation

Every series above is finished. The writing under way is in the chapter tracks — Luke in New to Faith (3 of 24), John in New to Faith (20 of 21), John in The Long Road (1 of 21), and John in Deep Study (1 of 21).

Index