The InVerse Theology Project

T. M. Moore
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The InVerse Theology Project

The InVerse Theology Project offers a different approach to understanding the traditional fields of theological study - Biblical, creational, historical, systematic, practical, and spiritual theology. At the same time, it uses theological themes to introduce listeners to the power of verse for serving God's truth and His people.

  1. InVerse 152 - IVT Explained, Part 9 (Image and Rhyme)

    JUL 22

    InVerse 152 - IVT Explained, Part 9 (Image and Rhyme)

    The heavy lifting of poetry is by the images poets choose to convey meaning and experience, together with the rhyme schemes they adopt to add musicality to the verse. Images can be of various kinds, as also can rhymes. Images and rhyme are the muscle and flesh of a poem. Images come into play when poets use one thing to stand for another. Images are primarily of two sorts, metaphors and similes, which are simply metaphors introduced by “like” or “as”. In a metaphor a poet gives us something familiar to help us understand and experience something less familiar. A good image can make a lasting impression and convey a deeply meaningful experience.

    14 min
  2. InVerse 151 - IVT Explained, Part 8 (Meter and Line)

    JUN 10

    InVerse 151 - IVT Explained, Part 8 (Meter and Line)

    We need to say a bit more about the role of meter and line and how they contribute to making verse an art form. Meter and line provide the skeleton and sinews of a poem. They give shape and rhythm to the words that hang on them stanza after stanza. The more regular they are, the more the poem “feels” like a poem. Much of contemporary poetry has thrown off all requirements of regular structure and demonstrates very little regard for meter and line as these have been practiced over the centuries in traditional English verse. I find such poems more difficult to read and appreciate, and to recall or commend. Many very fine examples of what is referred to as “free verse” exist, but I regard them as the exception. For our purposes I want to consider as an art in the long-standing tradition of the arts, those poems that honor the value of regular meter and line length.

    12 min
  3. InVerse 150 - IVT Explained, Part 7 (Poetry Defined)

    JUN 3

    InVerse 150 - IVT Explained, Part 7 (Poetry Defined)

    Undoubtedly, a sizeable majority of people today, including most Christians, would answer the question above, “Not I.” It’s hard enough to get people to read these days, much less to read verse. So estranged is the reading public from any diet of poetry that, not that long ago, one of our leading poets published an important book bearing the title, Can Poetry Matter?

    14 min
  4. InVerse 149 - IVT Explained, Part 6 (Spiritual Theology)

    MAY 20

    InVerse 149 - IVT Explained, Part 6 (Spiritual Theology)

    Of course, all theology is spiritual because its object is to know God, Who is a most pure Spirit. So whether we’re doing work in Biblical, creational, historical, systematic, or practical theology, we are doing spiritual theological work.

    15 min
  5. InVerse 148 - IVT Explained, Part 5 (Practical Theology)

    APR 15

    InVerse 148 - IVT Explained, Part 5 (Practical Theology)

    The first believers in Thessalonica startled their neighbors with the dramatic difference believing in Jesus was making in their lives. It was clear to some of the people in that important Roman center that the “Christians”, as they had come to be called, were out of step with the rest of the community.

    12 min
  6. InVerse 147 - IVT Explained, Part 4 (Systematic Theology)

    MAR 11

    InVerse 147 - IVT Explained, Part 4 (Systematic Theology)

    God is a God of order, not confusion. He expects His people to do all things decently and in order, to reflect His character to the world (1 Cor. 14.40).

    11 min
  7. InVerse 146 - IVT Explained, Part 3 (Historical Theology)

    JAN 29

    InVerse 146 - IVT Explained, Part 3 (Historical Theology)

    We don’t have to read very far in Scripture to realize two things: First, the Bible contains a good bit of history. One could go so far as to argue that the Scriptures are nothing if not an historical account of a particular people covering a certain period. The second thing we notice is that God is intimately involved with this people throughout the course of their history; and He very often appears to use historical events and figures in His dealings with His people.

    12 min
  8. InVerse 145 - IVT Explained, Part 2 (Creational Theology)

    JAN 26

    InVerse 145 - IVT Explained, Part 2 (Creational Theology)

    Theology is the disciplined pursuit of the knowledge of God and His glory. Creational theology, one of six primary disciplines in the regimen of theological studies, is beginning again to receive proper attention. By this discipline a believer, standing on the foundation of Scripture and Jesus Christ, may expect to discover the glory of God in created things and be enriched thereby in wondrous and edifying ways.

    12 min
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The InVerse Theology Project offers a different approach to understanding the traditional fields of theological study - Biblical, creational, historical, systematic, practical, and spiritual theology. At the same time, it uses theological themes to introduce listeners to the power of verse for serving God's truth and His people.

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