Spoiled for Riches
I’m off to South Africa to give a series of lectures in Cape Town at a new seminary that has been started in Hout Bay. This “township” (Imizamo Yethu) is literally next door to our new campus, which is an…
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Transfigured Hermeneutics 4 – Jesus as God’s Glory Face in John’s Gospel
This is the fourth part of a multipart discussion of the importance of the event of the Transfiguration for Christian theology and biblical reflection. In my first three posts, I argued for the significance accorded to the Transfiguration by its…
The Lost Word, and the Lost World
John H. Walton. The Lost World of Adam and Eve. Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. 253pp. $17.00 In 2009, John Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, challenged the evangelical world with the publication of his The Lost World…
The Lost Word, and the Lost World
John H. Walton. The Lost World of Adam and Eve. Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. 253pp. $17.00 In 2009, John Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, challenged the evangelical world with the publication of his The Lost World…
Christological Confusion & China’s Reforming Churches (part 11)
This is the eleventh post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and 10). Seventh Statement: The “Unknown Humanity of God in Christ” “Until recent times,” Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen observes,…
John Owen was an Anglican
Having previously proved without any shadow of a doubt that the great John Owen was not a Baptist, no, definitely not a Baptist, and certainly not a Presbyterian, it is important that we now go one step further. In this…
Ressourcement: retrieving our past for present faithfulness
Ressourcement: retrieving our past for present faithfulness –true history in The Letter to Diognetus Imperial Rome, especially in the first two hundred years of its existence, was “obsessed with time” and its place in the flow of history.[1] This obsession…
Meet the New American Dream
Meet the New American Dream, Same as the Old American Dream: Thoughts after seeing Joy Movies are more than entertainment, date night venues, or after (during) work escapes. At their best, they are something closer to lay theology or therapy…
A Name or a No-name?
I’m currently editing a book with Michael Haykin on intra-Reformed debates in the Long Eighteenth Century (1688 to 1815). It is a sort of companion to this book, and part of a life-long project of mine where I want to…
How Should We Then Defend?
I suspect that 2015, from a Christian perspective, will go down in history as one of the darkest and gloomiest years of human history. The cavalier destruction of human life, in the name of religion, is on the rise worldwide.…