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  • On the Value of Modern Biblical Scholarship

    In reading through Frame’s Doctrine of the Word of God, he quotes C. S. Lewis who is responding to some claims of Rudolf Bultmann. Those claims in particular were that Jesus’ personality was of little interest or importance to the apostle John and Paul. Lewis, himself quite the scholar, in his “Modern Theology and Biblical…

  • Billboards and Exegetical Back Flips

    I don’t usually check Google Reader in the afternoons, but since it’s Friday, and I’m procrastinating on finishing a thesis syllabus, I thought I would check it out. Much to my surprise, Denny Burk has an article on a billboard campaign that is happening right here in Dallas. As you can see, this one is…

  • Incarnation: God Comes

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] In many ways, this chapter is a condensation of Driscoll and Breshear’s other book Vintage Jesus. Having read that previously myself, this chapter comes off as a CliffNotes of sorts. That being said though, it is still a very thorough treatment of the subject. The…

  • Tribulation and New Creation

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] I’ll try to keep this post from simply being a junk drawer of ideas that couldn’t be treated in the first 3 parts, but it might be hard. I’d like to move on from talking about my difficulties with dispensationalism, and back into eschatology in general. I…

  • The Overlap of Ages in The Kingdom

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] Venn Diagram Eschatology By the New Creation starting while the old is still present, a significant overlap occurs. This presents a kind of already, though not yet kind of scenario, and is the same issue with the Kingdom of God, which is already inaugurated and a present…

  • Old Creation

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] Having talked about an overall kind of philosophy of eschatology, here is a brief (very!) overview of the drama of redemption. It essentially breaks out into this section on old creation, or creation and fall, followed by a discussion of new creation and redemption. What is then…

  • Dispensationalism

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] If you remember where we left off, it was an exploration of the millennial options. It is unfortunate to say the least, that one’s eschatology is basically categorized by how you interpret Revelation 20. My study of the topic over the course of this semester has helped…

  • Revelation: God Speaks

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] This chapter, much like the last one, and all the ones I’ve read so far, really deserves a much fuller treatment. But again, Doctrine sets out to be concise as it can, and so this chapter probably could not be any shorter without losing something…

  • Trinity: God Is

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] I like that Doctrine starts with the Trinity, as usually systematic theologies will begin with Bibliology, or worldview issues. As I understand, this is covered at a later section in the book, specifically, in the next chapter. This chapter is a pretty good overview, especially…

  • Millennium

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] I realize not only has this blog been somewhat neglected, but this eschatology series has been as well. Some of that, to be honest, is due to lack of interest on my part. The other part of it is the cognitive dissonance that I experienced in trying…