Jeff Boldt has a Th.D. from Wycliffe College and serves as a professor of theology at the Alexandria School of Theology, Egypt. Jeff comes from a long line of Mennonites, but was raised in the Alliance Church. He was drawn to Anglicanism after meeting J.I. Packer and, despite a great attraction to Eastern Orthodoxy, he stayed put because of Ephraim Radner. After a career as an animator he moved to Toronto to do doctoral work with Radner. At Wycliffe he met his wife, Jennifer. Together they mostly clean up after their rapidly expanding family. Jeff is particularly interested in patristic and early modern theology, and has contributed to several volumes of Anglican theology, most recently in All Thy Lights Combined: Figural Reading in the Anglican Tradition, ed. David Ney and Ephraim Radner.
The book of life, however, is more than a guest list for heaven. It's no other than the book of Scripture. And the book of Scripture is more than a history book. It actually maps out where time is going.
It pays to know the history of occult science in order to see that the latest science-and-religion dialogue will likely produce an occult theory. After all, occultism stands at the intersection of science and religion, being naturalistic without being materialistic. Theologians don’t always know the occult implication of their projects.
In the event of an apocalypse, are parents or bishops more essential for the survival of the church? My vote is with the former. Far more people are converted by their parents than by bishops.
Lionel S. Thornton (1884-1960) was far and away the most prolific and talented practitioner of figural exegesis in the 20th century, as well as its most consistent theorist.