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  • 6 Ways To Make Your Ideas Stick

    Of the 270 credit hours of college and graduate level class I amassed over 8 years, the vast majority were conceptually based, and honestly that was what I preferred. I came for content acquisition and I certainly got it. Luckily in my last year of seminary, I learned a rather important lesson. Really it was…

  • Grace Seasoned Rhetoric

    Thanks to Crossway sending along a review copy, I was able to read (and will soon review) Andreas J. Kostenberger’s Excellence: The Character of God and Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue. I mentioned yesterday about the need for clarity and charity in the justification debate. Both of those are best extended beyond that one conversation. In Kostenberger’s book,…

  • A Triperspectival Gospel

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] I’m only a couple of chapters into Peter Jensen’s The Revelation of God, but I’m already noticing triperspectival patterns showing up here and there. In his opening chapter, “The Gospel as Revelation,” he gives three grounds for believing that the gospel is the word of…

  • Warfield and Triperspectival Apologetics

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Up until this year, I hadn’t really done any kind of lengthy interaction with B. B. Warfield. As much you can envision such a thing, I’ve metaphorically danced around his ideas (go ahead and picture that) but haven’t really read much of his writings. This…

  • Where The Conflict Really Lies

    Continuing the trend this week, I’m looking forward to reading Alvin Plantinga’s Where the Conflict Really Lies. Although I haven’t too much of Plantinga’s work, I’m probably at least indirectly influenced by him. My philosophy professor at Dallas, who also was my thesis adviser, did his Ph.D work at Notre Dame, and so was not…

  • John Frame’s Advice For Young Theologians #21-30

    As I explained in the original post, these pieces of advice come from “Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian” in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame. Reflecting back on his career in teaching and his life of ministry, he offers off the cuff in an interview 30 nuggets of advice. Here’s…

  • Book of the Week: The Evolution of Adam

    Conveniently, the book this week is Peter Enns newest one, The Evolution of Adam. It provides a nice follow up to last week’s book (which is far more rigorous when it comes to Genesis) and will no doubt probably prove to be as much if not more controversial than his Inspiration and Incarnation (at least…

  • A Triperspectival Map of DKG

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, we’re reading through John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (DKG) in the reading for The Marturo Collective. We’re reading through chapters 2 and 3 this week, and it’s at that point that Frame first introduces his notion of perspectivalism.…

  • John Frame’s Advice For Young Theologians #11-20

    As I explained in the original post, these pieces of advice come from “Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian” in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame. Reflecting back on his career in teaching and his life of ministry, he offers off the cuff in an interview 30 nuggets of advice. Here’s the next…

  • Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology

    This may not happen every week, but since I’d like to read on average a book a week (in addition to the 12 bigger books to plod through) there will be a “book of the week.” In many cases, they won’t be books for review, but hey, maybe if there’s enough interest I might review…