On April 20–21, Bethlehem College & Seminary (my school) and Crossway (my favorite publisher) cohosted the Theologians on the Christian Life Conference.
Steve Nichols and Justin Taylor edit the Theologians on the Christian Life series that Crossway has published since 2012. The series is historically informed and warmly devotional.
Here are eight videos from the conference:
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One of my wife’s best friends calls this her favorite book on marriage:
Elisabeth D. Dodds. Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards. Laurel, MN: Audubon, 2003. [Read more…] about The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards
The title of this book’s final chapter is “Four Criticisms”:
Dane C. Ortlund. Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God. Theologians on the Christian Life. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014.
Ortlund qualifies,
Jonathan Edwards is way out ahead of me, and probably you, both in living and in theologizing on the Christian life. But the student, standing on the teacher’s shoulders, may on occasion glimpse something the teacher doesn’t. Cautiously, we proceed. (p. 178)
Ortlund unpacks four criticisms (my paraphrases): [Read more…] about A Model of How to Critique a Theological Giant: Ortlund on Edwards
In C. S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 
, Lucy reads a spell to make hidden things visible.
To her surprise, Aslan appears in the doorway:
“Oh, Aslan,” said she, “it was kind of you to come.”
“I have been here all the time,” said he, “but you have just made me visible.”
“Aslan!” said Lucy almost a little reproachfully. “Don’t make fun of me. As if anything I could do would make you visible!” [Read more…] about Do You Think I Wouldn’t Obey My Own Rules?
Details at James Grant’s blog.
In March I highlighted Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney’s Essential Edwards Collection. WTS Books is offering it from July 27 to August 2 for just $22.50 (50% off the cover price).
This weekend I listened to the audiobook of George Marsden’s 160-page A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Amazon | WTS Books). It’s considerably shorter than Marsden’s 640-page Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Amazon | WTS Books).
Marsden is a good writer and superb historian. Edwards is a remarkable man and God-intoxicated theologian. Good combination. Time well spent.
The 5-volume Essential Edwards Collection by Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney is now available. (The images below are missing some text: each should say that John Piper writes the foreword.)
Check out endorsements by D. A. Carson, Mark Dever, C. J. Mahaney, Al Mohler, Carl Trueman, and Justin Taylor.