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  • Christ-Centered Biblical Theology

    I don’t remember when I first heard of Graeme Goldsworthy, but it was probably at some point during my time in Dallas. I’ve had my eye on his Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics, which I guess would make a good companion to this volume. Eventually, I’ll pull the trigger, but since his Christ-Centered Biblical Theology was released earlier this year,…

  • Hearing The Old Testament: Listening For God’s Address

    A while back, I was taking advantage of the fact that RTS not only has a good library, but a great bookstore as well. One day when I came in, I stumbled upon this new release by Eerdmans, Hearing The Old Testament: Listening For God’s Address. Knowing that I’d be teaching a year of Old…

  • Stephen Wellum on The Backdrop of Kingdom Through Covenant

    Dispensationalism and covenant theology (along with their varieties) largely frame how evangelicals put their Bibles together. Each view attempts to serve as an interpretive grid for how to understand the metanarrative of Scripture. In this way, both systems function as examples of biblical theologies, i.e., “whole-Bible theologies,” which then lead to various systematic theological conclusions. Yet it…

  • “In This Way”: An Extended Review of Kingdom Through Covenant

    Earlier this year, Crossway released a bombshell named Kingdom Through Covenant into the playing field of evangelical theological studies. That may be a slight exaggeration, but considering that the Gospel Coalition gathered Darrell Bock (a progressive dispensationalist), Michael Horton (the leading mainstream covenant theologian guru), and Douglas Moo (perhaps a via media between the two) in order to…

  • The Gospel According to Isaiah 53

    In March of 2009, toward the end of my second year of studies at Dallas Seminary, Chosen People Ministries held a conference just down the road at Irving Bible Church. I vaguely remember this going on. I was engaged and taking 2nd semester Hebrew alongside 4th semester Greek (and 2 other classes), so even though…

  • An Old Testament Theology

    Earlier this week, we took a peek at Frank Thielman’s Theology of the New Testament. The companion volume also published by Zondervan is Bruce Waltke’s An Old Testament Theology: A Canonical and Thematic Approach. Much like my experience in seminary with NT Theologies, my reading of an OT Theology did not happen. My class choices…

  • Theology of The New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach

    While it may come as a surprise to some, I managed to get through an entire four year seminary program without reading a New Testament theology. Granted, I read my share of systematic theology, and I read my share of New Testament material. But, because of my overall focus, I never had a class that…

  • Genesis And Christian Theology

    Genesis has almost always been fascinating to me. Part of it I’m sure is its mysterious nature, reaching back to the dawn of time like it does. I’ve just always found the early chapters of Genesis intriguing. Now that I’m up and running with Eerdmans, I noticed they released a collection of essays earlier this…

  • How To Form A Chiasm From the Canon of Scripture

    In case you’re wondering, a chiasm is a way of structuring a presentation to highlight the middle portion. It takes its name for the Greek letter “Chi” which looks like our X. A chiastic structure would look something like this: Point A Point B Point C Point B’ Point A’ The first and last points…

  • A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters

    Somehow, the original publication of this book slipped under my radar. That, or perhaps I just wasn’t particularly interested when it did come out (I had recently gotten married and adjusting to a new lifestyle in fall 2009). In either case, I’ve gotten my hands on it now, and like pretty much everything I’ve read…