Category Reformation21

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Race and Responsibility

Phil, thanks for raising the question about covenantal contexts and responsibility with regard to race. I think you may have landed here on a genuine disagreement between us. My fear is that in having such an expansive understanding of “covenant”…

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To Ehrman is Human

Writing in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dallas Seminary’s Daniel Wallace explains why Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus became such a publishing phenomenon.  Why would a book on textual criticism, of all things, sell…

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I guess I’m losing it

Justin — do you know, I can’t recall where I delivered them.   But then I’m told my lectures are a bit like the sixties — if you can remember them, then you weren’t really there.

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Trueman on Owen

If you want an introduction to John Owen’s theology, here is a series of five lectures by Carl Trueman on Owen: John Owen: The Man and His Time by Carl Trueman John Owen and the Practice of Theology by Carl…

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Race and Grace: A Clarifying Question

Justin Taylor writes: “18. Reject the theories of collectivist sin, guilt, or exoneration when dealing outside of a covenantal context.”  Whether I agree with this statement depends on what counts as “a covenantal context.” 

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The Only Acceptable Intolerance?

Rosie O’Donnell has begun her new job on ABC’s “The View” by claiming that “Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state.”  She went on to equate…

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Prosperity Doctrine

Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge…. Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity…

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Especially for Carl

Just FYI.  A new Understanding the Times has been posted in this issue, as well as a few book reviews. Carl, I have made some self-deprecating statements about the Welsh.