Phil Gons just announced that he is now working for the makers of Logos Bible Software! (He also writes, “Some of you may want to check out the Logos resources that I’m selling.”)
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by Andy Naselli
Phil Gons just announced that he is now working for the makers of Logos Bible Software! (He also writes, “Some of you may want to check out the Logos resources that I’m selling.”)
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by Andy Naselli
Collin Hansen writes a bi-weekly “theology in the news” column for Christianity Today, and his article published today highlights fundamentalism: “The Crisis of Modern Fundamentalism: Defections threaten a proud movement.” Hansen concludes:
“The difference between evangelicals and fundamentalists hasn’t been theology, though some fundamentalists would refuse to compromise on dispensationalism, for example. Fundamentalists have a strategy problem: Do they clamp down on these youngsters, risking a deeper generation gap? Or do they reconsider strict separation and cultural isolation? By choosing the latter, they may save their youth and lose their cause.”
Update: Cf. Michael Bird’s reaction to Hansen’s article, which begins, “All I can say is that if you think that John Piper is a dubious or dangerous character then your theology is about as messed up as can be imagined.”
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by Andy Naselli
[I prepared the following book review for D. A. Carson‘s Ph.D. seminar “The Old Testament in the New” in fall 2006 at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. I chose to review this book last year partially because its author, Barnabas Lindars, was Carson’s “doctoral father” or mentor for his Ph.D. at Cambridge University. Willem VanGemeren, the director of the Ph.D. program for theological studies at TEDS, had encouraged Ph.D. students to get to know the professor whom they would like to be their mentor for the Ph.D. program. One important way to do that, he suggested, is to read and become very familiar with that professor’s works as well as the works of that professor’s mentor.]
Lindars, Barnabas. New Testament Apologetic: The Doctrinal Significance of the Old Testament Quotations. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1961. 303 pp. Out of print.
New Testament Apologetic (henceforth NTA) was the first major published work by Barnabas Lindars (1923–91). It was the published version of his B.D. thesis submitted to Cambridge University, where he would later serve as an assistant lecturer (1961–66). (F. F. Bruce adds that Lindars’s B.D. “is not as other B.D.s are; at Cambridge it takes precedence over Ph.D.!” [Review of Barnabas Lindars, New Testament Apologetic, Modern Churchman, n.s., 5 (1962): 170.])
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Robert V. McCabe presented “An Overview of Ecclesiastes” (a twelve-page article) last week at the 2007 Mid-America Conference on Preaching at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to providing an annotated outline of Ecclesiastes, he fills out the following outline of the book’s message:
A. Life in a sin-cursed world cannot be fully comprehended by man.
- The subject of the book is found in the recurring theme emphasizing the enigmatic nature of life in a sin-cursed world.
- The subject of the book is also found in its polarity of themes reflecting the enigmatic nature of life in a sin-cursed world.
B. Life in a sin-cursed world can be judiciously enjoyed by man.
- The significance of the exhortation to judiciously enjoy life is demonstrated by its repetition.
- The foundation of the exhortation to judiciously enjoy life is one’s relationship to God.
- The motivation for the exhortation to judiciously enjoy life is the judgment of God.
Related: Check out Dr. McCabe’s blog, “Fearing God in a Hebel World.”
by Andy Naselli
In William W. Combs‘s “The Meaning of Fellowship in 1 John” (a twelve-page article that he presented last week at the 2007 Mid-America Conference on Preaching at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary), he reaches two conclusions: [Read more…] about Bill Combs on Fellowship in 1 John
by Andy Naselli
There’s a lot of wisdom in William F. Buckley Jr.‘s famous rule of thumb for voting: “the rightward-most viable candidate.”
HT: my Dad (who has repeatedly explained this strategy to me over the last couple decades!)
by Andy Naselli
Today Wayne Grudem published an article and participated in an interview in which he makes a strong case that conservative evangelicals should back Mitt Romney.
Related: “Mitt Romney vs. Rudy Giuliani” and “Bob Jones Endorses Mitt Romney“
by Andy Naselli
This morning Christianity Today posted Collin Hansen’s article on The Gospel Coalition: “Tethered to the Center: The Gospel Coalition is committed to core evangelical beliefs and wide-ranging cultural engagement.”
Related links (listed in the “theological writings” section of my recommended resources):
The Gospel Coalition (D. A. Carson, Tim Keller): articles, audio/video (plenary talks, interviews, workshops, and a panel discussion), foundational documents