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  • Justification and the New Perspective on Paul (2)

    [Read the first part of this review here] We left off in chapter 3 of Justification and the New Perspective on Paul, so let’s pick back up in chapter 4, which summarizes E.P. Sanders’ research and presentation of Judaism, particularly in the NT context. What is interesting in Waters’ presentation of Sanders’ work is that it…

  • Justification and the New Perspective on Paul

    You may have noticed a recent trend in the direction this blog is going. Namely, one away from expositing Christian philosophy and towards book reviews. There are two reasons for this: I had to do the last two reviews anyway for a class and felt like sharing This one and the next one lined up…

  • The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright

    In writing The Future of Justification, John Piper is making a rather direct response to the writings of N.T. Wright. While it centers on justification, that topic emerges from Dr. Wright’s efforts to generally re-read the Apostle Paul in categories that are largely different from the ones most people use in reading their NT (pg.…

  • Death by Love: Letters From the Cross

    Death by Love is a book essentially written by pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church (in Seattle, not to be confused with the one in Michigan), but contains also help in writing by Dr. Gerry Breshears of Western Theological Seminary. The book is formatted as pastoral letters to people that pastor Mark has worked…

  • Metaphysics 101: Creator A

    Part of the delay in getting this blog together should be apparent from the title. I mean, how daunting is it to try and unpack this facet of reality in 1500-2000 words or less (which is what I’m trying to limit each of these entries to, since let’s be honest, most people don’t read this…

  • Metaphysics 101: Basic Reality

    What we are dealing with in this essay is a Christian theory of being, which is simply another way of designating one’s theory of reality, called more technically, metaphysics. This is opposed to one’s theory of knowledge which is one’s epistemology. We will be taking the stance that one’s epistemology and one’s metaphysic mutually influence…

  • Change: The Beginning and Source

    [This post is part of the Change series] I suppose if we are going to discuss God in formal terms, I could just send you here and you could wade through a rather dense one page “definition” of God. However you want to look at it though, because of the nature of the assignment for…

  • Toward a Trinitarian Worldview: Incarnation

    “Speaking of simplicity,” said a now facetious Martin, “How does this impact your understanding of the Incarnation?” Vasiliy smiled, realizing the absurdity of using “simplicity” and “the Incarnation” in the same sentence, but not missing a beat simply said, “It makes it quite easier to understand actually.” “How so?” “Well since you don’t have anywhere…

  • Toward a Trinitarian Worldview: The Soul

    “Thinking of my personhood being grounded in the Trinity,” said Martin, “How does that establish an understanding of human nature?” Seeing the gears turn like this made Vasiliy smile, “We trace our grounding of humanity in God back to Genesis 1, where God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image,’ so that would…

  • Toward a Trinitarian Worldview: Perichoresis

    “So where we?” said Vasiliy “I think we were about to talk about what concepts are affected by your starting point in explaining the Trinity.” “One step at a time,” said Vasiliy, “First let’s talk about God as Trinity.” “We still both agree that God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,…