The Crisis of the Cross
Book manuscript on Christian ethics and the pro-life rescue movement.
A long manuscript subtitled Why Operation Rescue Had To Fail (in the American Church).
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Joseph Lapsley Foreman
A public entry point to his biography, ministry work, and selected writings on biblical theology, Christian ethics, and public obedience.
A life of teaching and argument.
Joseph was born in Seoul, Korea, where his parents served as Presbyterian missionaries. His family later moved to Montreat, North Carolina. He studied philosophy and history at Gordon College, continued at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and completed graduate theological study at Westminster Theological Seminary.
He was ordained in 1981 and later served in pastoral and teaching roles, including work connected with Foothills Presbyterian Church, Covenant Church of Willis, Asheville Christian Academy, and Montreat College.
His writings move between Scripture, moral order, public action, sacrifice, mercy, and the responsibilities of the church.
His public work pressed theology into action, not as a theory to admire, but as obedience to test.
Public work.
In the 1980s and 1990s Joseph worked in the Christian pro-life movement, including the Council for the Sanctity of Human Life, Valley Forge Citizens for Life, Operation Rescue, and Missionaries to the Preborn. His own biographical notes describe him as a co-founder of Operation Rescue and its National Field Director, where he organized local groups and national events.
That history shaped much of his later writing. Again and again, his manuscripts return to hard questions: What does Christian action require? What is the church for? How should conscience, law, sacrifice, mercy, and public order relate to one another?
Selected writings.
The archive includes manuscripts, essays, teaching notes, and course materials. Some pieces are polished. Others are drafts, outlines, or recovered working copies.
Biblical Theology Core Seminar
Course manuscripts and annotated lessons.
Definitions, covenant and kingdom, Eden to New Jerusalem, sacrifice, mission, idolatry, and biblical book workshops.
ReadHow the West Was Won
Book project on philosophy, history, and moral order.
Drafts exploring social order, moral law, reason, beauty, civilizational memory, and transcendent structure.
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