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A Theology of the Church with a Sound Theological Method

October 30, 2014 by Andy Naselli

churchI just reviewed this book for 9Marks:

Christopher W. Morgan and Kendell H. Easley, eds. The Community of Jesus: A Theology of the Church. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2013. 288 pp. 10-page sample PDF.

Excerpt:

When you have a solid grasp of how a theme develops across the Bible’s storyline in Scripture, you are able to trace that theme from a number of starting points. For example, you may be preaching or teaching through the Gospel of John and come to John 2:19: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” You may then zoom out so that you can trace the trajectory of the temple theme across the Bible’s storyline—from Eden, to the tabernacle, to Solomon’s temple, to Ezekiel’s temple, to Zerubbabel’s temple, to Jesus as the temple, to the tearing of the temple’s curtain, to the church as the temple, to the individual Christian’s body as the temple, to the heavenly temple, and all the way to its culmination in Rev 21:22: “I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” Then you could zoom back in to John 2 and reflect on the significance of that passage in light of how it fits in the trajectory from Eden to the new heavens and new earth.

Filed Under: Systematic Theology Tagged With: Chris Morgan

Logos 6 Releases Today

October 27, 2014 by Andy Naselli

Here’s what’s new in Logos 6:

I’ve been using Logos 6 each day for the last few weeks, and it’s a beautiful design. It has some new bells and whistles, but by far my favorite new feature is that you can hide all the chapter and verse numbers in Bibles—whether Hebrew, Greek, or English. I love this feature! (I explain why here and here.)

You can learn more about Logos 6 here (note the coupon code for 15% off) and here.

Filed Under: Exegesis Tagged With: Logos Bible Software

Free PDFs of Dissertations at Southern Seminary

October 21, 2014 by Andy Naselli

libraryI recently discovered that Southern Seminary makes available free PDFs of many of the PhD dissertations (and some ThM theses) that students have successfully defended there.

These students have spent years working on these treatises, and some of the theses are outstanding (e.g., David Schrock’s on definite atonement).

I wish more schools did this. I just added over 70 of these PDFs to my Zotero library.

Filed Under: Other

The Center for New Testament Textual Studies NT Critical Apparatus

October 14, 2014 by Andy Naselli

CNTTSI just happily added The Center for New Testament Textual Studies NT Critical Apparatus to my Logos library.

From the resource’s introduction: [Read more…] about The Center for New Testament Textual Studies NT Critical Apparatus

Filed Under: Exegesis Tagged With: Greek

Flesh and Spirit

October 7, 2014 by Andy Naselli

ttThe latest issue of Tabletalk is on biblical dichotomies. I contributed an article on the dichotomy of flesh and Spirit/spirit, and I distinguish ten different contrasts:

“Flesh and Spirit.” Tabletalk 38, no. 10 (October 2014): 22–24.

Web version | PDF

Related: Let Go and Let God? A Survey and Analysis of Keswick Theology

Update on 8/23/2017: My latest book attempts to survey and analyze “let go and let God” theology more accessibly:

No Quick Fix

Filed Under: Exegesis

The Real Problem with Gambling

September 23, 2014 by Andy Naselli

gamblingThat’s the title of a short appendix in this book:

Vern S. Poythress. Chance and the Sovereignty of God: A God-Centered Approach to Probability and Random Events. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014.

Here’s what Poythress calls “The Real Problem with Gambling” (pp. 279–81):

The preceding appendix has analyzed a number of gambling systems by which gamblers hope to “beat the odds” and make a killing. We could consider still more systems. In each case, careful calculations of the probabilities show that the gambler will not win in the long run. In fact, in casino games the probabilities are always stacked against the customer, so that in the long run the casino consistently takes in money from every form of gambling that it offers on its premises. [Read more…] about The Real Problem with Gambling

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: money

The Book of Daniel in Biblical Theology

September 16, 2014 by Andy Naselli

danielHere’s how the latest volume in Don Carson’s NSBT series concludes:

James M. Hamilton Jr. With the Clouds of Heaven: The Book of Daniel in Biblical Theology. New Studies in Biblical Theology 32. Downers Grove: IVP, 2014.

Conclusion

The book of Daniel contributes to the Bible’s unfolding redemptive-historical storyline. [Read more…] about The Book of Daniel in Biblical Theology

Filed Under: Biblical Theology Tagged With: Jim Hamilton

How Do You Know If You’re Qualified to Serve As an Elder?

September 9, 2014 by Andy Naselli

RinneMy responsibility as a professor at Bethlehem College & Seminary includes training elder-qualified men in our seminary. What does it mean to be elder-qualified?

Jeramie Rinne answers that question with six statements in Church Elders: How to Shepherd God’s People Like Jesus (9Marks; Wheaton: Crossway, 2014), 19–29.

You know you’re qualified to serve as an elder if . . . [Read more…] about How Do You Know If You’re Qualified to Serve As an Elder?

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: church

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