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A noteworthy book that’s just come out in English translation: Regis Debray’s Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography (Verso).  Debray, a student of Althusser, a companion of Che Guevara in Bolivia, and an advisor to the Mitterand government, is an interesting…

Is there anyone in Grand Rapids this weekend who can give us an update on the PCRT Conference? Hello? Anybody there?

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,”…

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…

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…

Tim Keller’s very helpful review of Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (Eerdmans, 2006) is now available in the April Redeemer Report and online here. Don’t miss it.

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…

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…