Posted in Antithesis, Apologetics, Philosophy, Video, tagged agnosticism, atheism, Christianity, religion, sociology on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Professor Edwin Judge briefly surveys the ancient sociological history of atheism in his interview with Greg Clarke:
Posted in A Common Word, Antithesis, Apologetics, Christology, Cornelius Van Til, Cross and Crescent, Doctrine of God, Epistemology, Ethics, Ex Pacto, Geerhardus Vos, Herman Bavinck, John Calvin, John Frame, Love, Metaethics, Miroslav Volf, Pilgrim Praxis, Research Papers, Richard Gaffin, Synthesis, Systematic Theology, tagged Christianity, Reformed, religion, covenant, Islam, trinity on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Abstract
My papers evaluate Dr. Miroslav Volf’s publications and lectures related to A Common Word. In the epistemology paper I examine Volf’s arguments for a shared monotheism between Christianity and Islam, asking, “By what norm can one determine whether Muslims believe in the same monotheistic God as Christians?” In the ethics paper I explore Volf’s love [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Doctrine of God, Ethics, Historical Theology, Pilgrim Praxis, Prolegomena, Research Papers, Semper Reformanda, Systematic Theology, tagged aesthetics, Christianity, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, religion on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summary
Through colorful biographical sketches of six “fools” from Christianity’s history, Pelikan presents a poignant exhortation: unless one’s head, hands, and heart being “foolishly” committed to Jesus Christ at every point, then one’s pursuit of dogmatics, ethics, and aesthetics become idolatrous journeys into insanity.
Review/Reflection
My response to Pelikan’s book is part review and part autobiographical reflection:
On Mastering [...]
Posted in Antithesis, Apologetics, Cross and Crescent, Evangelism, Video, tagged Christianity, Islam, religion on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Saudi Arabia’s former Minister of Information, Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani, gives his perspective on 9/11 (it has been unfairly pinned on “Islam”) and Christianity (its scriptures are corrupt, and Islam calls Christians back to true monotheism).
On Al-Yamani’s former argument, American Christians may need to at least be willing to listen patiently. With his latter arguments Al-Yamani [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, John Frame, Systematic Theology, tagged Christianity, Reformed, religion, seminary, Theology on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Reform Your Electronic Library According to the Scriptures
Pastors, missionaries, Bible college and seminary students, home schooling families, and laymen studying theology should take note of this powerful new tool for studying the theological works of a preeminent Evangelical theologian of our times, Dr. John Frame.
Dr. Frame writes in a highly readable style, making his works [...]
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical Theology, Genesis, Genesis 33, Hermeneutics, J. Gresham Machen, Luke, Luke 15, New Testament, Old Testament, Research Papers, Sacra Scriptura, tagged Esau, Jacob, LXX, Prodigal Son, Septuagint on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Summary
Luke’s LXX Allusion to Jacob and Esau (Genesis 33:4) in the Prodigal Son Parable (Luke 15:20) Affirmed (10 pages; .PDF format; ~190KB) examines the Greek texts of Genesis 33:4 and Luke 15:20 to demonstrate the striking linguistic parallels in these texts and to suggest that Luke employs an allusion to the former in the latter.
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Posted in Audio, Ecclesiology, Ethics, Love, New Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Romans, Romans 12, Sacra Scriptura, Sermon, tagged Christian life, Christianity, religion on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summary: I presented this sermon to my preaching lab 3 class this afternoon. My assigned topic is “brotherly love,” and the text I chose is Romans 12:10.
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As a student who is very much still learning how to preach, I’d love your feedback. If you listen, I’d like to know:
What do [...]
Posted in Cross and Crescent, Ethics, Pilgrim Praxis, Video, tagged Islam, Islamophobia, Sufi on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the world awakens to the growing Muslim population one of the new questions facing Christians is whether all Muslims are alike. While we Christians are no strangers to wide streams of diversity within our own religion, strangely we have had a hard time of allowing the possibility of diversity within Islam. Perhaps we should [...]
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical Theology, Book Reviews, Ecclesiology, Ex Pacto, Hermeneutics, N. T. Wright, New Perspective on Paul, New Testament, Old Testament, Semper Reformanda, Soteriology, Synthesis, Systematic Theology, tagged Reformed on April 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Download A Reformed Read Through N. T. Wright’s The Climax of the Covenant, Chs. 1-4 (PDF)
Or read this paper online.
Abstract: In The Climax of the Covenant N. T. Wright’s exegetical arguments toward Christ’s covenantal fulfillment of the Old Testament offer a rich harvest of biblical-theological and covenantal insights. However, compared to other Reformed [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Metaethics, New Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Prolegomena, Research Papers, Richard Hays, Sacra Scriptura, tagged Reformed on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Overview
My senior seminar class is reading through Richard Hays’ ethical masterpiece, The Moral Vision of the New Testament. This profound book has prompted deep reflection upon the proper use of Scripture in Christian ethics, and Hays’ work has provided an opportunity for us students to evaluate our Reformed (i.e. Vantillian/Framian/Prattian) metaethic with a metaethic outside [...]
Greetings in Christ's peace. My name is Laurence. I write to reflect, albeit dimly, the Light without which we cannot see light (Psalm 36:9).
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