I am still here, never fear! Just a lot going on in life, and so my blogging has slacked a bit. I have more in the pipeline, and you can maybe expect a whole slew of them in the days to come. I just wanted to assuage any anxiety you might have had about my lack of posting. I wanted to give you a good night of sleep, once more, by knowing that, indeed I am here, and I always will be (haha). One post I’m thinking about writing is on teasing out the implications of the vicarious humanity of Christ, and how a proper understanding of that doctrine militates against any dualist accounts that end up leading humanity to be in competition with God and vice versa. I was reminded of this problem once again as I heard a recent sermon. This problem is pervasive. It is pervasive because I don’t think most pastors, in particular, not to mention theologians (by way of training), are even aware that this is a problem. Augustine has become so ubiquitous in the tradition of the Church, all the way down, particularly in its Western iterations, of course, that his type of soteriological dualism simply just becomes the teaching of Holy Scripture in all its categorical sectors. This is a problem for a variety of reasons, not least of which is how it impinges and shapes someone’s Christian and daily spirituality. I want to write a post that seeks to bring some awareness to this problem, and then some course correction provided by the resources I commonly traffic in as an Athanasian Reformed theologian. Be on the lookout!