Dr. Gary Parrett, with the release of his second book in the last six months, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old Fashioned Way, is fast establishing himself as one of the leading authorities on Christian education as it is practiced in the church and applies to Christian catechesis and spiritual formation. Earlier this [...]
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Tim Morey. Embodying our Faith: Becoming A Living, Sharing and Practicing Church. Downers Grove: IVP, 2010. Pp. 197. Christianbook.com $10.99 Let’s face it, there are ton of books on “how to do” church right now. Right now as I sit at my desk, I count close to 15 recent (6 months) releases in this genre. [...]
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The Philokalia, 4 Vols. G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, and Kallistos Ware, eds. London, U.K.: Faber & Faber, 2009. Pp. 1594. Christianbook.com $51.99. Intro The Academic blog at Christianbook.com welcomes guest blogger James. James is our first guest blogger and fellow reader of all things Academic. He comes from an evangelical tradition, but has recently become [...]
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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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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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December promises to be an exciting month for the Academia Nut. Currently in the works is a four part entry on the Academia Nut’s top-overall rated New Testament commentaries . Look for the entries in early December. Second, the Academia Nut will be interviewing theologian John Franke author of the new book Manifold Witness: The [...]
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