The Next Big Thing
The debate over the book on the mission of the church by Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert over at the Gospel Coalition and beyond is fascinating, both for its content and because it is likely a premonition of battles to…
Category Postcards from Palookaville
Levy’s Repentance, Greg Beale and Biblical Eldership
I learned many things while at the Proclamation Trust last week but two stand out as particularly important. First, there is nothing like talking to Paul Levy about Welsh mysticism, putting it to the sword and seeing his agony of…
Levy’s Repentance, Greg Beale and Biblical Eldership
I learned many things while at the Proclamation Trust last week but two stand out as particularly important. First, there is nothing like talking to Paul Levy about Welsh mysticism, putting it to the sword and seeing his agony of…
Business as usual
A week in the UK with the pastors at the Proclamation Trust and a return to the US indicates it is business as usual for the influential evangelical organisations in both places. Over there, Levy and I were the token…
Business as usual
A week in the UK with the pastors at the Proclamation Trust and a return to the US indicates it is business as usual for the influential evangelical organisations in both places. Over there, Levy and I were the token…
From Dostoevski to Dick Lucas
A strange weekend. Arrived in the UK Saturday and stayed with Paul Levy which was positively Dostoevskian. I had been convinced by various emails sent to Reformation 21 that Levy was, in fact, a pseudonymous clown I had myself…
From Dostoevski to Dick Lucas
A strange weekend. Arrived in the UK Saturday and stayed with Paul Levy which was positively Dostoevskian. I had been convinced by various emails sent to Reformation 21 that Levy was, in fact, a pseudonymous clown I had myself…
The God of the Cross
Yesterday, I reflected on the forgotten insight of Luther: not his development of the theology of the cross but rather his development of the idea of the theologian of the cross. Behind this idea, however, lies an even more profound…
The God of the Cross
Yesterday, I reflected on the forgotten insight of Luther: not his development of the theology of the cross but rather his development of the idea of the theologian of the cross. Behind this idea, however, lies an even more profound…
The Forgotten Insight
One of the things that is so striking about the current revival of interest in Reformation theology, broadly conceived, is the absence of perhaps the most glorious contribution of Martin Luther to theological discourse: the notion of the theologian of…