Nobody Wants Jesus to Offend
Hi everyone. Thanks to Carl for inviting me, the Top Men at Ref21 for allowing a menace like me to cause my brand of mayhem here in this part of the mostly-respectable blogosphere, and to my wife for her always-generous…
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Biblical versus Systematic Theology?
Systematic Theology is often contrasted unfavourably with the relatively new discipline of Biblical Theology. The very terminology immediately sets Systematics at a disadvantage, as if Biblical Theology alone were ‘biblical’ and anything that sets out to be ‘systematic’ should be…
Biblical versus Systematic Theology?
Systematic Theology is often contrasted unfavourably with the relatively new discipline of Biblical Theology. The very terminology immediately sets Systematics at a disadvantage, as if Biblical Theology alone were ‘biblical’ and anything that sets out to be ‘systematic’ should be…
Gospel ripples
In our efforts to make Christ known where God has put us, we have regular meetings to preach the gospel in a village outside our town. It is a hard place, not surprisingly given that it is full of hard…
Of Baptists and covenants
The friends over at The Confessing Baptist have posted some resources trying to help Baptists think through the furore regarding republication. You can find some of them here, from where you can follow other trails. Others are working on the…
The (Gracious?) Covenant of Works (Again)
Sorry, glitch with the first post. Had to republish this again. “Virtually all of the Reformed theologians of the era recognized, albeit in varying degrees, that there could be no relationship between God and the finite, mutable creature apart from…
The (Gracious?) Covenant of Works (Again)
Sorry, glitch with the first post. Had to republish this again. “Virtually all of the Reformed theologians of the era recognized, albeit in varying degrees, that there could be no relationship between God and the finite, mutable creature apart from…
Children’s Church or Children in the Church?
Where should your children be during corporate worship? What does the Bible say about it? Does church history help us answer this question? Over the years, I have tried to read various positions regarding the inclusion of children during Sunday…
Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction
Nicholas M. Healy, Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. 142 pp. $23.00 Stanley Hauerwas has his share of critics, but there is something wonderfully uncommon about this book. The writing is fresh, relentless, and incisive. Healy writes…
More Conferences
EPCEW have a couple of conferences they’ve asked me to highlight The first being the London Presbyterian Conference on Sat 18th October with Ligon Duncan, Andy Young, Ian Hamilton and Bill Schweitzer which takes place in Central London …