In the most recent issue of Christianity Today Scot McKnight rightly points out that many Christians are having increasing difficulty reconciling Jesus and Paul. This is, of course, a major question that has been frequently discussed by NT scholars and theologians in recent years. It was even a major aspect–if not the central concern–of N.T. [...]
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Before I jump into today’s blog post, I want to take time to commend IVP Academic for their exemplary work in Church History in recent months. They have produced several important books that provide orientation to many areas of significance in church history that have heretofore been inaccessible to many interested readers. Their most recent [...]
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CBD, (Christianbook.com) is launching a new website (CBDReformed.com) to serve the prolific readers within the Reformed tradition. Already live, CBDReformed is sure to stir up competition for, and conversation among, Reformed readers. Reformed believers are, perhaps, the most well read, articulate, theologically rooted, and historically grounded groups in all of Christianity. Not only are they [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Creation, Evangelicalism, Genesis, Hermeneutics, Interpretation/Hermeneutics/Exegesis, Old Testament, Science, Theology, Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2010
Splattered across newspapers, magazines, and, of course, the blogosphere have been the stories of Bruce Waltke and Tremper Logman whose controversial remarks on the Genesis Creation narrative resulted in their resignations from RTS. For his part Waltke stated that Christians should be more open to Science, specifically evolutionary theory, while Longman stated his belief that [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 part 2 (view all entries) of our review of the Atlas of Global Christianity, we will be discussing methodology. Methodology, to a project of the size and scope of the Atlas of [...]
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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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