Dr. Michael J. Svigel
@Svigel
Theology professor, department chair, patristic scholar, writer, husband, father. Passionate about the one Lord and his church.
This is not your grandfather’s eschatology. This is your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather’s eschatology. a.co/d/fMQ3gB3
Theology 101: “We must learn to difference well between certainties and uncertainties... catholic verities and private opinions.” (Baxter)
Theology 101: It is not healthy for Christians to gather around themselves teachers who tickle their ears—repeating indefensible opinions, confirming wrong perspectives, and legitimizing ignorant prejudices.
At the @Rangers game at @GlobeLifeField. I think I could make millions if they let me open a @Pepto Bismol stand here. Millions.
Instead of a heat index, we should have a sweat index—how many minutes it takes the average person to go from perfectly fine in an AC building to sweating once they step outside in the sun.
Theology 101: Job and his friends: “Bla bla bla...yada yada...yap yap...whaaa whaaa...grrrr...tut tut…harrumph...!” God: “Y’all shut up.”
Theology 101: I hear from people that studying church history made them Catholic. Or Orthodox. Or Lutheran. Or Anglican. Or Presbyterian. I'm a patristic scholar who has been working academically in early church history for decades, and that has made me... stay right where I'm at…
Theology 101: If you want to know what modern dispensationalists actually believe, confess, and teach, I would recommend reading articles and books by their actual theologians who hold teaching positions at institutions and regularly publish in academic circles. I would not…
Theology 101: Speaking of novel theologies, the idea that the Sabbath was transferred to Sunday as a day of literal rest in fulfillment of the fourth commandment and thus binding on Christians was a post-reformation, mostly puritan invention. Nobody interpreted or applied the…
Theology 101: Don't cheat. Not in games, not on taxes, not on tests, not in writing, not in job-hunting, not at work, not on your spouse, not on your Savior. It really isn't that complicated. Don't cheat.
Theology 101: If a doctrine or practice were actually from the earliest church, people in later centuries wouldn't have had to literally forge documents to make it look like their novelties were original. Big, big red flag. E.g., writings of Dionysius the Aereopagite, fake…
Theology 101: “Whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, of good repute, anything excellent and worthy of praise—dwell on these things. Or, in the alternative, dwell on lies, conspiracies, plots, gossip, slander, and power plays. You do you!” said the Apostle Paul never.
What I wish I could do after seeing the new Superman movie to stop myself from going into the theatre:
Theology 101: Throughout history, when you hitched your religion to a rising philosophy, science, or political movement, that religion also fell with that philosophy, science, or political movement.
Theology 101: The Bible doesn’t look forward to an ethereal, dreamlike existence in a bright, timeless eternity. It looks forward to an earthy, physical existence of resurrected, glorified bodies in a restored, Edenic creation. Ours is an incarnational hope.
Almost at the halfway point of the first draft of my latest book. A slimmed-down, popular-level version of the same basic eschatology as Fathers on the Future, tentatively titled “The Story of the Future.” My wife is reading Part 1 to make sure I’m hitting my target audience.
I sometimes wonder: when flight attendants do their safety demonstrations and people ignore them, do they think “jerks!”…but then if one or two people stare at them the whole time, do they think “weirdos”?
Theology 101: The saints will spend an eternity forever growing in knowledge of and love for an inexhaustibly knowable and loving God.