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Reasonable Oliphint

Have you purchased Scott Oliphint’s new book, Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology yet? Had one of those déjà vu moments yesterday. I was sitting in Starbucks at 6.30 am reading the first chapter on “Wittgensteinian fideism,”…

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Penal Substitution and the UK

Spring Harvest, the largest evangelical conference in the UK, has severed its longstanding relationship with UCCF (which owns the British side of InterVarsity Press). The issue appears to be that of penal substitution and the position of Steve Chalke (who infamously referred…

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Pending updated

Not wanting to spoil Trotter’s fun, but I have now changed the Blog Theme. (BTW: An on-going discussion on the wider theme of pictures/images of Jesus has been taking place in recent issues of New Horizon’s, the denominational magazine of…

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My opinion of pending

I like the new blog topic — a tricky and much neglected one.  As most of you will no doubt know, pending is, strictly speaking, a heterodoxy, an error, not a full blown heresy (see the section on `Total pending’ in…

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Council of Reforming Churches

Here’s an exciting new work: The Council of Reforming Churches. GoalsThe Council of Reforming Churches (CRC) exists to impact the black church and greater black community with biblical theology which has its fulfillment in the Person and work of Jesus…

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In Absentia

My entrance into the blogosphere will be sporadic over the next week or two as I prepare to speak at the Women in the Church leadership and Mission to North America mercy ministry conferences in Atlanta on Friday, April 20, and…

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Meredith Kline (1922-2007)

Lee Irons: Today I learned that my favorite seminary professor passed away peacefully last night after a long illness. He taught me much about the covenantal and typological structure of the Scriptures. Most of all I will miss his sweet…