Thank God for Bandit Country
One question that I have now been asked more times than I care to remember is “How do you cope with all the nastiness that’s come your way on the internet over the last few years?” The answer is pretty…
Tag Theology
Five Arguments Against Future Justification According to Works (Part II)
Editor’s Note: This begins part two of the article. Part one can be found here. Argument #4: The future judgment of believers consists only of reward and praise. Those who support future justification according to works will cite the numerous…
Five Arguments Against Future Justification According to Works (Part II)
Editor’s Note: This begins part two of the article. Part one can be found here. Argument #4: The future judgment of believers consists only of reward and praise. Those who support future justification according to works will cite the numerous…
Unlocking Romans
Unlocking RomansBy J.R. Daniel Kirk245 p.Eerdmans (November 2008) It is difficult to overestimate the influence of E. P. Sanders’s scholarship on the academic study of Paul. Since Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) and Paul, the Law, and the…
Messiahs Pointing to the Door
There are many differences between American and British culture. Most obvious, perhaps, are the sports: baseball versus cricket; and football (where feet are rarely used) versus football (where feet, and the occasional head, are all that can be used); and…
Messiahs Pointing to the Door
There are many differences between American and British culture. Most obvious, perhaps, are the sports: baseball versus cricket; and football (where feet are rarely used) versus football (where feet, and the occasional head, are all that can be used); and…
Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholics Perspectives on Justification
Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on JustificationBy David E. Aune272 p.Baker (November 2006) Rereading Paul Together (RPT) is a collection of essays originally presented as papers at a conference of Roman Catholic and Lutheran biblical scholars and theologians.…
Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness
Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of ImputationBy Brian Vickers256 p.Crossway (October 2006) Brian Vickers’, Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness, is a work of careful exegesis and synthesis that attempts to establish a biblical basis for the doctrine of the imputation…
Apostasy Lit: Why Do They Leave?
Categories of literature have expanded well beyond the tragedy/comedy paradigm of earlier days. Genres, in other words, have been fruitful and have multiplied. Into the mix, I propose a new addition, apostasy literature. Definition: a genre, usually taking the form…
Surveying the Wondrous Cross: The Atonement in Church History
As we come to the third and final segment in this series on the atonement, it would be good to remind ourselves where we have been. In this way we will have some idea of where we are going and…