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  • Jesus and The Victory of God: Conclusion

    At this point, I’ve already done the survey of the three main parts of the book: Introduction Profile of a Prophet The Aims and Beliefs of Jesus Since Wright’s conclusion spans 5 pages and does what a good conclusion should (doesn’t introduce radically new information) there is really not much to comment on there. Instead,…

  • Atonement

    A couple of years ago at this time, I worked through a series of posts on the atonement. I need to probably go back and revisit some of the content for my Second Thoughts series, but first I needed to unify the posts onto a series landing page. So, here are my two year old…

  • Justification: The Progressive Reformed View

    [This is part of the Justification: Five Views mini-series] Over the past few weeks, thanks to IVP Academic, we’ve been journeying through Justification: Five Views. Today is the last formal view, and we’ll wrap up with a summary post next week. Michael F. Bird represents a progressive Reformed view on justification, which he differentiates from a traditional…

  • Salvation Accomplished By The Son: The Work of Christ

    A few weeks back, I told you I was working my way through this book for lent. There I mentioned that Robert Peterson divides his study on the work of Christ into two sections: Events Pictures As Peterson himself says, there is really only one work of Christ, but that work accomplishes our salvation through nine Events:…

  • Resurrection in Early Christianity

    [This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Two weeks ago, thanks to Fortress Press we were able to start into a review series through N. T. Wright’s The Resurrection of The Son of God with a look at the first century background context. Last week we were able to survey the writings of Paul for…

  • The Aims and Beliefs of Jesus

    [This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Two weeks ago we started working through Jesus and The Victory of God thanks to Fortress Press sending me a review copy. Last week we covered the biggest chunk of the book. Now that we’ve seen Jesus’ profile as a prophet, we can examine the conclusions N.…

  • Excellence: The Character of God and The Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue

    Every now and then I’ll read a book that feels like it came at just the right time. Working my way through Andreas Kostenberger’s recent book Excellence, was just one of the those times. Post-seminary, I’m finding myself in a kind of no-man’s land. I went to seminary to train for the academy, but I’m…

  • Justification: The Traditional Reformed View

    [This is part of the Justification: Five Views mini-series] We’ve now come to the second to last view in Justification: Five Views. Thanks to IVP Academic, we’ve been working through a view a week as we move closer to Easter. Though separate views, both this view and the next fall into a broadly construed “Reformed” context. The difference…

  • Resurrection in Paul

    [This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Last Friday, thanks to Fortress Press we were able to start into a review series through N. T. Wright’s The Resurrection of The Son of God with a look at the first century background context. Today we’ll continue on to the next part and see what…

  • Jesus and The Victory God: The Profile of a Prophet

    [This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Last week we had our first look at Jesus and The Victory of God thanks to Fortress Press. Today we’ll dig in a little more and getting into Part II of the book. This section spans the better part of the book and is more less…