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Theological Eschatology 5 – Heavenly-Mindedness

This is the fifth (and final) article in this series on theological eschatology. To read the other installments, one can find the introduction here, the second here, third here, and fourth here ~ Mark McDowell, editor Theological method follows its matter. In other words, sound theology…

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Theological Eschatology 5 – Heavenly-Mindedness

This is the fifth (and final) article in this series on theological eschatology. To read the other installments, one can find the introduction here, the second here, third here, and fourth here ~ Mark McDowell, editor Theological method follows its matter. In other words, sound theology…

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James Is, You Know, in the Bible

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was discussing the necessity of works to salvation when a fellow Reformed minister accused him of legalism.  This pastor, noted for promoting a radical version of Lutheran soteriology, cut him down…

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In Defense of Piper

I’ve been told that some folk are taking issue with John Piper’s Foreword to Thomas Schreiner’s book on justification. According to Piper, who agrees with Schreiner, we are “right with God by faith alone” but we do not “attain heaven…

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On Fatherhood Divine and Human

In my experience, one of the principal delights of growing older — more than adequate compensation for hair loss, aches and pains, and other unpleasantries associated with the art — is seeing one’s family increase through the addition of children…

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Decreation

Paul Griffiths, Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures. Texas, Baylor, 2014. 431 pp. $68.99 Paul Griffiths’s Decreation is systematic theology in grand, classical style. Eschewing the notion of “eschatology” because of its ambiguity and (one suspects) its modernity, Griffiths probes…

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Leithart on Griffiths

It’s been the design of Reformation 21, of late, to deal with the best books by some of the keenest minds. By trying to stay at the forefront – and, therefore, to bring to our readers books that will set…