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Posted in Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Theology on May 7th, 2010
Below is a lecture given by John Armstrong author of the compelling new book Your Church is Too Small (read an excerpt) at Wheaton College. This book is perhaps the most important book on church unity in recent years examining not only how to achieve it, but what it looks like and should be in [...]
Posted in Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Historical Theology, Interview, Philosophy, Systematic Theology, Theology on Apr 6th, 2010
John R. Franke. Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth (Nashville: Abingdon, 2009). Introduction In December of last year, I approached John Franke about the possibility of interviewing him about his latest book Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth. John and I then succeeded in what can only be as a very odd journey to the [...]
Posted in Catechesis, Ecclesiology, Education, Evangelicalism, Interview on Mar 29th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Creation, Ecclesiology, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Historical Theology, Systematic Theology, Theology on Mar 19th, 2010
If you have visited Christianbook.com/academic recently you may have noticed that Hendrickson Publishers has listed a 14 Volume set of the Church Dogmatics on our website for the unbelievable price of $99.99. This publishing event, while not as important as the initial publication of the Dogmatics in English, is nevertheless quite significant as it marks [...]
Posted in Ecclesiology, History, History of Missions, Interview, Missiology, Sociology of Missions, Theology on Mar 5th, 2010
Todd M. Johnson and Kenneth R. Ross, eds. Atlas of Global Christianity. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2010. Pp. 400. Christianbook.com/academic $250.00. Part 4 (view all entries) of my series on the Atlas of Global Christianity is an interview with editor Todd M. Johnson conducted on Wednesday, February, 24th following a launch celebration of the [...]
Posted in Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, History, History of Missions, Missiology, Sociology of Missions on Mar 2nd, 2010
Todd M. Johnson and Kenneth R. Ross, eds. Atlas of Global Christianity. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2010. Pp. 400. Christianbook.com/academic $250.00. In our 3rd installment (view all entries) on the Atlas of Global Christianity we will be outlining each section in detail. The goal of today’s post will be to provide a guide for [...]
Posted in Catechesis, Ecclesiology, Education, Theology, Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2010
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. [...]
Posted in Catechesis, Ecclesiology, Education, Historical Theology, Theology on Feb 1st, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Biblical Studies, Catechesis, Ecclesiology, Education, Ephesians, New Testament, Old Testament on Jan 20th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Biblical Studies, Catechesis, Ecclesiology, Education on Jan 18th, 2010
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 [...]