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  • This Week’s Mail Prizes

    What comes in the mail each week is usually feast or famine. This week though, it was quite the feast. Here’s the haul: The Quest For The Trinity (2 copies courtesy IVP Academic) The Unfolding Mystery of The Divine Name (also courtesy IVP Academic) A Mouth Full of Fire (again, courtesy of IVP Academic and…

  • How To Pick Up Commentaries For Cheap

    Part of building a theological library is trying to get resources cheaply. It probably goes without saying that if you’re starting out in ministry or you’re currently a seminary student, you don’t have a lot of disposable cash for buying books. Or, we could say you definitely do not have as much money in your…

  • How To Build A Theological Library: Old Testament Backgrounds

    I meant to post this yesterday (as readers in RSS will have noticed), so rather than wait until next week, it seemed like the thing to do while I watch some college football. To give a preview of how this series will unfold, here’s a table of contents: General Overview Old Testament Backgrounds (what you’re…

  • Paul Tripp’s Dangerous Calling For 80% Off

    Over at Westminster Bookstore, you can get Paul Tripp’s newest book Dangerous Calling for less than $5! Here’s how: If it is anything like Instruments In The Redeemer’s Hands, How People Change, A Quest For More, A War of Words, or What Did You Expect? then you better take advantage of this deal while you…

  • Perspectivalism In The Gospels

    Each of the four Gospels gives us the truth about the life of Jesus. No one Gospel is exhaustive, nor does it claim to be – each is selective. And each makes choices about how it is going to tell the history. Each is interested in highlighting theological significances and relationships to the Old Testament. Matthew is…

  • The New Testament’s Use of The Old

    In other words, we must carefully allow the New Testament to show us how the Old Testament is brought to fulfillment in Christ. In this way, as Beale rightly acknowledges, the New Testament’s interpretation of the Old Testament may expand the Old Testament author’s meaning in the sense of seeing new implications and applications. However,…

  • Israel and The Church In Covenant Theology

    In this way, within covenant theology, “Israel-church” are so linked that it becomes hard not to say that the only major difference between the old and new covenant people of God is that the New Testament “church” is a racially mixed and non-national Israel, and that the “church” is a more knowledgeable version of the…

  • What’s Progressive About Dispensationalism

    The term “progressive” is used by its advocates in the progressive revelation sense, i. e., to underscore the unfolding nature of God’s plan and the successive (not different) arrangements of the various dispensations as they ultimately culminate in Christ. In this way, progressive dispensationalists stress the continuity of God’s plan across redemptive-history, and in this…

  • Carl Trueman’s Problem With The New Left

    Most of us have come across those evangelicals who, in reaction to the Religious Right, like to parade the fact they they vote Democratic in a kind of schoolboyish “Aren’t I naughty?” kind of way. It’s often an empty gesture, a kind of theological vegetarianism; vegetarians do something that costs them nothing, but my, oh…

  • 5 Kinds of Biblical Theology

    Last week, I told you about Graeme Goldsworthy’s Christ-Centered Biblical Theology. Over this past week though, I’ve been reading more on the subject and have dove into Edward Klink and Darian Lockett’s Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice. You can look forward to a full review early next month, but in the…