What does “ís” mean in “This is my body”? Metonymy, Calvin answers in the same way that Scripture represents one thing by another in such expressions as, “circumcision is a covenant” (gen. 17:13), the “lamb is the Passover” (Exod. 12:11)…
David Mathis has written a clear and, in my mind, accurate assessment of N.T. Wright’s “Justification.” More than a review of Wright’s latest book, Mathis offers a critique of Wright’s tendency toward a less than careful exegesis of the biblical…
In the latest issue of Themelios, Darrel Bock reviews Bart Ehrman’s latest attack on the Bible, Jesus, Interrupted. Bart Ehrman’s Jesus, Interrupted by his own admission says nothing new. It packages what scholars have been saying about issues in the…
There are few writers I enjoy reading as much as Cormac McCarthy. I began reading McCarthy when I picked up a copy of Blood Meridian a year or so after I graduated from University. I was hooked. McCarthy was interviewed…
Tim Challies has given an enthusiastic recommendation to Who Made God? by scholar Edgar Andrews. Why should the Devil get all the good scientists? It sometimes seems that way, doesn’t it? We hear of scientists like Stephen Hawking and Richard…
Transubstantiation and consubstantiation equally infer the ubiquity of Christ’s physical body, a matter which Calvin now begins to address. The notion that Christ’s physical body (in Bethlehem’s manger, on the cross, resurrected in walking along the Galilean shore) is in…
Calvin’s doctrine of the Supper, often (too often!) referred to (incorrectly) as one of “real presence” is one of communion with Christ crucified and resurrected. It’s focus on the bodily nature of this communion (there is no other Christ with…
It is my wife’s birthday. To celebrate the day, a friend from church took her out to eat and do a little shopping. What struck me as a particularly good gift was the prayer journal that she presented to my…
Good stuff from Carl Trueman… It is all too easy for the theological student to end up remembering God as an object of knowledge; it is quite another thing to remember him as the all-surpassing subject of existence. This is…
