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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 »
Download and Summary
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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John Carrick’s The Imperative of Preaching is a gem of an introduction to redemption history’s (biblical theology’s) implications for Christian preaching. The first five chapters are particularly helpful in these ways:
Carrick introduced well the interrelations and biblical-theological implications of the indicative and the imperative moods.
Also, his thoughts on the exclamative mood are helpful for thinking [...]
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Posted in Biblical Theology, Book Reviews, Geerhardus Vos, Herman Ridderbos, Hermeneutics, Preaching, Scripture, tagged Christianity, Reformed, religion on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I really enjoyed reading Graeme Goldsworthy’s Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture for two main reasons:
First, he does a good job at introducing the basics of biblical theology ( i.e. What is BT? What does it look like? Why is it important?) in a non-technical way and with an eye for why BT [...]
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Reforming Pastoral Ministry is a collection of essays written by (mostly) Reformed baptist pastors with the goal of encouraging younger pastors toward Scriptural reformation and revival. The book is supposed to be a modern rendition of Richard Baxter’s classic work, The Reformed Pastor. As a third year Presbyterian seminarian looking to enter the pastoral ministry, [...]
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Posted in Augustine, Book Reviews, Daryl Hart, Duplex Regnum, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Ethics, John, John 18, Pilgrim Praxis, Sacra Scriptura, Sola Scriptura, Soteriology, Systematic Theology, tagged Christianity, politics, Reformed, religion on February 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Overview: Hole in the Wall
Daryl Hart delights in thought-provoking ironies. Recovering Mother Kirk had us Christians looking into the apparent paradox of “high church Calvinism” as a liturgical way of life. A Secular Faith now invites us to become “Christian secularists” (p. 15) when it comes to politics. Both books hold in common a robust, [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Doctrine of God, Duplex Regnum, Ethics, Ex Pacto, Philosophy, Pilgrim Praxis, Prolegomena, Romans, Romans 1, Romans 2, Sacra Scriptura, Systematic Theology, tagged Reformed, Natural Law on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Overview
In this 69 page monograph, A Biblical Case for Natural Law, professor David VanDrunen explains the elements of a historic, Reformed, orthodox doctrine of natural law. After defining the term and showing how natural law is rooted in God’s creation of man in His image (imago Dei), VanDrunen
explains how natural law fits within redemptive history [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Daryl Hart, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Historical Theology, Pilgrim Praxis, Sola Ecclesia, Systematic Theology, Worship, tagged Calvinism, liturgy, Reformed on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Father God; Mother Church?
Daryl Hart’s provocative and penetrating collection of essays, Recovering Mother Kirk, is a profound read; it invites Christians into a way of life that at first sounds like an oxymoron (21-40) and secondly sounds like an evangelical swear word: high-church Calvinism.
Hart reaches out to evangelicals who, having grown fed up with the [...]
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