Bryan Kee 🪗

Collector of books, bluffing at academics. Ulster Scot.

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

This new resource looks excellent

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

"Theology is impossible unless God makes it possible."

- John Webster

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

"Theological interpretation gives us the eyes to see and the ears to hear, ensuring that our study of the grammar of the text leads us ultimately to the glory of the God who speaks."

— Dr Kevin Vanhoozer (@VanhoozerKevin)

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

Faust read everything, and was changed by none of it.
@g_parker_jr on what reading is for the theologian—and how God may use it to form the intellect and the heart.

The first essay in a new series... ↓

https://t.co/TvEfBCwDcC

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

Moral clarity comes only from knowing God as He has revealed Himself, and all things in their right relation to Him." The MTh in Theological Ethics is built on a single conviction: ethics is a theological activity. Dr Gregory Parker Jr. explains↓

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

"It is in the doctrine of the Trinity that we feel the heartbeat of God’s entire revelation for the redemption of humanity."

— Herman Bavinck

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

“Christian theology is a work of regenerate intelligence, awakened and illuminated by divine instruction to consider a twofold object. This object is, first, God in himself in the unsurpassable perfection of his inner being and work as Father, Son and Spirit and in his outer operations, and, second and by derivation, all other things relative to him.”

— John Webster, God without measure, Vol. 1.

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer joins us for a conversation you won't want to miss.

— The three pillars of The Alexandrian Institute
— Theological retrieval and the Great Tradition
— Reading formatively, not just critically

Watch now → https://t.co/9QyUAcf7Qw

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

"Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves."

—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion.

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

The Great Tradition isn't nostalgia—it's a living conversation with the giants who went before us.
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[Graham Shearer @GJShearer]

British politics is a bit crazy at the moment, isn't it? Here's an opportunity to get a Christian perspective on the whole thing. See you on June 16th.

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

Churches have been growing in Britain, writes @RDLaverty — just not all of them
https://t.co/y3mZT491Vj

[Scott R. Swain @scottrswain]

Pound for pound, a pretty important page:

[Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged]

I find it interesting and revealing as a phenomenon that positions on questions such as women in leadership in the Church so often tend to rest upon biblicist, sacerdotal, or ideologically egalitarian arguments, with natural law considerations largely neglected.

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

Great to teach in-person with our MA Theology cohort in Glasgow. Thankful for our partnership with Cornhill Scotland!

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

Classical theism, rightly understood, does not make a frozen, distant Deity.

By emphasizing God's complete otherness and self-sufficiency, it actually protects meaningful relation to God as our supreme Happiness.

Consider how in historic theology, God's unique essence was often linked with His unique light, life, blessedness, glory. God was seen as fountain of joy as much as fountain of being.

For example, in context of asserting God does not need us, we read that "God hath all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and of Himself" (WCF) and that God is "Himself very light and goodness and life and essence" (John of Damascus).

Note these words "goodness" and "life." Or consider how Petrus von Mastricht, again in the context of explicating divine aseity, speaks of God as our "Essencer" as well: "God is not only preeminently essence, but also the Essencer (to speak barbarously), for in him we live, move, and are (Acts 17:25, 28)." Athenagoras, in claiming the Christian God does not need our sacrifices, called God "perfect fragrance."

Can you feel how the premodern conception of God's otherness had a warmth and nuance to it that is often lacking today?

Put it like this: only a God who is happy without us can Himself be our perfect happiness.

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

We don't inherit the Great Tradition by repeating it — we enter into dialogue with it. As @g_parker_jr explains: we want to be taught by the Tradition, listening, wrestling, and responding with creativity and faithfulness.

[John Anderson AC @JohnAndersonAC]

This Is How Western Civilisation DIES | Peter Hitchens (@clarkemicah)

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#WesternCivilization #revolution #britain #uk #politics

[Mark Proctor @zoe__proctor]

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[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

You can't answer "How should we live?" without first answering "Who is God and what has he done?"

The MTh in Theological Ethics grounds moral reasoning in knowing God as he has revealed himself.