Derek Thomas

Yesterday, I drew attention to the essay on James Buchanan by Carl Trueman in a recently published volume by P & R (The Faith Once Delivered). This morning, in our…

The Faith Once Delivered Ed. Anthony T. Selvaggio, Essays in Honor of Dr. Wayne R. Spear (P&R, 2007). What a delightful read this book is proving to be. A collection…

The British public are apparently “at ease” with the idea of producing animal-human hybrid embryos in order to further stem cell research. A government watchdog committee gave approval for it yesterday. For an…

Carl, the actor you have never heard of (right!), is Christian Bale (of Batman Begins fame) — who,as I’m sure you know, is WELSH!  Born in Pembrokeshire! 

Stephen Nichols has just published this very fine book, For Us and Our Salvation (crossway, 2007) which explores the Doctrine of Christ in the Early Church. Nichols’ characteristic style is…

The seminary Fall semester has started again. Where did the summer go?  And straight off the bat, I’m teaching Systematics 1, suggesting that Berkhoff is a must-purchase volume (better as…

I’ve revisited the Dark Ages: the time before the internet! All promises for my trip to Belfast that I’d be able to access this site (or my email) proved futile. The reasons…

Two new publications caught my eye this week, and there could hardly be a greater contrast. One comes from Ireland in the seventeenth century: The Body of Divinity: Being the…

Trotter, Del is in New York at a Wagnerfest. Brünnhilde has angered Wotan and sided with Siegmund and Sieglinde and has been cast into a magical sleep… Well, I won’t…

Paul Helm has posted his analysis of N. T. Wright’s ordo salutis on his blog. His conclusion? “With the help of the distinctions between temporal and logical order, and events…