It is a wide spread belief in our culture, by Christian and non-Christian alike, that the reality of evolutionary science logically dispels the notion of a Creator. In response to evolutionary science, its philosophical foundations and its scientific derivatives, many Christians defend Genesis 1-3 as an a historically factual and objectively sustainable account of the [...]
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Today’s post, part 2 of my interview with Steve Kang and Gary Parrett, looks deeper into their book and produces some surprising comments. I hope you enjoy the rest of our conversation and be sure to look for my upcoming interviews with Deep Church author Jim Belcher, and John Ronning author of The Jewish Targums [...]
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Today I will be interviewing Dr.’s Gary Parrett and S. Steven Kang about their new book Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful: A Biblical Vision for Education in the Church. Dr. Parrett and Dr. Kang both teach at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. I met Gary and Steve at a local coffee shop [...]
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Martin Luther’s Understanding of God’s Two Kingdoms. By William J. Wright. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. Pp. 203. ISBN 978-8010-3884-6. $29.99. (Christianbook.com $21.99). Martin Luther’s doctrine of the “two kingdoms” has influenced much of western political thought. One might even say that many of the political constructs in the West today are either directly descended [...]
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Karl Barth, in the opening pages to his Doctrine of Creation (CD III.1) makes it clear that the Christian’s confession of faith in God as the Creator is exclusively an articulus fidei, and therefore something which is not knowable to the human mind (005). It is a “free act of God” and those acts can [...]
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Wheaton College’s annual Theology conference seems to get better year by year, and 2010 looks to be the best yet. N.T. Wright is the keynote speaker, with Richard Hays and Kevin Vanhoozer also participating. That’s a great lineup. The theme of the conference is Jesus, Paul and the People of God and will most likely [...]
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Participatory Biblical Exegesis: A Theology of Biblical Interpretation. By Matthew Levering. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame Press, 2008. Pp. 310. ISBN 0-2680-3408-7. $25.00. It is common knowledge among scholars that in order to understand the “Bible in its own right” or as Kant said, “just like any other book” required its detachment from the church’s [...]
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