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  • Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?

    Editors: James K. Hoffmeier, Dennis R. Magary Title: Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?: A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture Publisher: Crossway (March 1, 2012) Paperback: 544pgs Reading Level: Seminary (or avid Bible School) Audience Appeal: Prophets interested in historical apologetics and doctrinal defense Amazon Westminster [You’re reading this review of Do Historical Matters…

  • The Drama of Doctrine: Introduction

    [This post is part of The Drama of Doctrine review series] Kevin Vanhoozer’s The Drama of Doctrine has been around now for several years. I read through it back in the fall and was amazed primarily at Vanhoozer’s creativity in theological thinking. Creativity of course in the good sense, that is, in expression of doctrine, not in…

  • History, Wisdom, Counseling, and Drama

    Over the past several weeks, we made our way through three review series. One was on Jesus, one the resurrection, and one on justification. By doing a series, I was able to say more about the books in question, but was also better able to process what I had read. I decided that was a…

  • Baptisms, Justification, Resurrection, and History

    My Posts From This Week New post in What We’re up To In Ministry: Baptisms in The Swimming Pool Finished review series: Justification: Conclusion New book review: Historical Theology: An Introduction to Bible Doctrine Finished review series: The Resurrection of The Son of God: Conclusion Book Received RetroChristianity by Michael J. Svigel Top Links From Twitter 7th-graders stop…

  • The Resurrection of The Son of God: Conclusion

    Unlike the conclusion to Jesus and The Victory of God, the last section in The Resurrection of The Son of God is still a section in its own right making up about 50 pages or so. Before getting to the final section, so far we’ve covered the following areas in historical survey: Setting the Scene Resurrection in…

  • Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine

    Back in the fall, I attempted a review series for Gregg R. Allison’s Historical Theology. It didn’t quite go the distance as you can see by this list: Introduction Canonicity and Inspiration of Scripture Authority and Inerrancy of Scripture The reason for the abandonment was not because the book wasn’t stellar. And it wasn’t because I…

  • Justification: Conclusion

    In working through Justification: Five Views, here’s where we’ve been: Justification: History and Contemporary Debate Justification: The Roman Catholic View (Gerald O’Collins and Oliver Rafferty) Justification: The Lutheran Deification View (Veli-Matti Karkkainen) Justification: The New Perspective on Paul View (James D. G. Dunn) Justification: The Traditional Reformed View (Michael S. Horton) Justification: The Progressive Reformed View (Michael F. Bird) Having looked…

  • Holy Week, Atonement, Easter, and Jesus

    My Posts From This Week Salvation Accomplished by The Son: The Work of Christ Justification: The Progressive Reformed View New/Old Series: Atonement Event: SHIFT One Day: Apologetics Seminar Jesus and The Victory of God: Conclusion KONY 2012: Part 2 The Story of Easter Holy Week From Justin Taylor What Happened on Monday of Holy Week?…

  • KONY 2012: Part 2

    There’s now a new video as part of the KONY 2012 campaign.  It is definitely a step moving beyond merely making Joseph Kony famous and toward actually taking action. I think its a step in the right direction, but there’s still a ways to go. KONY 2012 is an interesting project, but not without its…

  • SHIFT One Day: Apologetics Seminar

    [This post is part of the What Are We up to in Ministry? series] This Saturday, I’ll be talking to a group of college students at UCF about evidences for the Christian faith. It’s part of SHIFT Orlando, which is student organization on the campus of UCF (click thru to read more about their ministry!)…