Category: Theology
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What Your Mind Style Says About Your View of God: Randoms
Tuesday, I started explaining how your mind style influences (to some extent at least) how you view God. If nothing else, your mind style should be looked at as a kind of baseline that can either be balanced out with biblical teaching, or taken to an extreme. It doesn’t determine your view of God, but…
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How To Build A Theological Library
There comes a point when you shift from randomly collecting books that catch your eye to intentionally gathering resources to form a working library. For me, this point came during my last semester of seminary. Partly because I didn’t know where I was moving when I graduated, and partly because I knew that being a…
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Did God Really Say?
Overview Did God Really Say? is a collaboration between Reformed, Westminster, and Covenant theological seminaries. As you can imagine, that makes this book a response from leading Reformed authors concerning the inerrancy of Scripture. Though relatively short (under 200 pages), several of the essays are shortened version of full length book treatments. For instance, Michael…
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Stephen Wellum on Systematic Theology and Worldview
Systematic theology, then, inevitably involves theological construction and doctrinal formulation, grounded in biblical theology and done in light of historical theology, but which also involves interacting with all areas of life – history, science, psychology, ethics, and so on. In so doing, systematic theology leads to worldview formation as we seek to set the biblical-theological framework of…
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Charity and Its Fruits: Review and Reading Plan
If it’s alright with you, I’m going to deviate from my review script just a tad on this one. Since I know you’re probably curious, this is for a couple of reasons. First, unlike most of the books I review, this one isn’t technically new. Rather, it’s a new edition of Jonathan Edwards’ classic Charity…
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An Old Testament Theology
Earlier this week, we took a peek at Frank Thielman’s Theology of the New Testament. The companion volume also published by Zondervan is Bruce Waltke’s An Old Testament Theology: A Canonical and Thematic Approach. Much like my experience in seminary with NT Theologies, my reading of an OT Theology did not happen. My class choices…
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40 Ways The Bible Motivates Us To Pursue Holiness
Recently, I’ve been reading my way through Kevin DeYoung’s The Hole In Our Holiness. I think it will prove to be an important book, and it’s already helping me work through some issues. It’s a fairly short book and I think pretty much everybody who cares of the Christian life ought to read it. In…
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Theology of The New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach
While it may come as a surprise to some, I managed to get through an entire four year seminary program without reading a New Testament theology. Granted, I read my share of systematic theology, and I read my share of New Testament material. But, because of my overall focus, I never had a class that…
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Canon Revisited: Establishing The Origins and Authority of The NT Books
While there are many books out there (and more to be published) that deal with new problems, this book is not one of them. In fact, this book may deal with the oldest problem of all. That issue, “at the very center of how biblical authority is established” is the problem of canon (16). Working…
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August Editorial
July is now in the record books, and that means summer is almost over. If you’re keeping score at home, I’ve officially been married now for 3 years today (well, as of 230pm if you’re getting technical). Staff training at school started yesterday, and continues today and tomorrow. A trip Tennessee is on the horizon…