Category: Theology
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Reverse Systematic Theology: A Proposal
Something I don’t do as often anymore, but would like to change, is offer you thoughts in process. I think that’s kind of a big part of blogging. I used to use the blog to think out loud more frequently, but that was in its MySpace and Xanga iterations. I think in seminary I felt…
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Recovering Classic Evangelicalism
Usually, I work off of a loose queue line for my review oriented reading. Big volumes are an exception, but in general, I try to work in a loose order of arrival. However, I always try to give each book a good initial perusal when it first comes in the mail. This involves judging the…
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God’s Not Dead: Evidence For God in An Age of Uncertainty
Rice Broocks is the co-founder of the Every Nation family of churches, and is senior minister of Bethel World Outreach Church in Nashville. He did his masters work at RTS and has a doctorate in missiology from Fuller. In God’s Not Dead: Evidence For God in An Age of Uncertainty Broocks is writing to three types of…
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Doctrine: Resurrection
Had we had class last night, we would have finished covering the resurrection. If you missed the PDF from the post on the cross, here it is again. Here also are my thoughts from the actual book chapter in Doctrine. I mentioned on The City that I have plenty of posts on the resurrection to…
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The Unfolding Mystery of The Divine Name
Michael P. Knowles is professor and George F. Hurlburt Chair of Preaching at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario. He’s written a couple books on preaching, and now this book, The Unfolding Mystery of The Divine Name: The God of Sinai in Our Midst, which explores how the name of God revealed in Exodus has been understood…
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Doctrine: Cross
Though not originally scheduled, because I was in town we had Doctrine class last night. What I went through in PowerPoint form was adapted from a PDF I made last year called The Person and Work of Christ. That itself was a condensed and rearranged form of Robert Peterson’s book Salvation Accomplished by The Son: The Work…
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Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of The Church
When I was in seminary, we used Bruce Demarest’s The Cross and Salvation as our textbook in soteriology. That was my introduction to the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series, and I liked it so much I picked up another volume, To Know and Love God, which proved very useful for theological method. When I was…
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Doctrine: Incarnation
Last night, we continued on with Doctrine class. I would give you a PDF of the PPT slide, but here is a link to more or less the same content in blog post form. In the slides (and post) I mention this book several times and would highly commend it to you on issues related…
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Doctrine: The Image, Fall, and Homosexuality
If you’re interested in my thoughts on the two chapters in Doctrine, you can read them here and here. In the latter link, you can also read an interesting dialogue I had with an atheist. It is probably the most respectful internet comment thread you will ever read, and if anyone was kind of jerk,…
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Doctrine: Scripture
Last night we continued in Doctrine class, finishing out our section on revelation by focusing specifically on the doctrine of Scripture. We mostly walked through my position paper, which you can download in PDF here: Doctrinal Statement on Scripture. Since I made that statement, I’ve read, and sometimes reviewed, several very helpful books on the doctrine…