Andy Naselli

Thoughts on Theology

Peter O'Brien

Thank God for Gifted Professors and Students

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There’s almost always at least one person who is more gifted than you are at something.

  • It may tempt you to be sinfully discontent with your gifts and jealous of others.
  • It may fuel godly ambition.
  • It may fuel humility and thankfulness.

Would you believe that this happens in seminary—where people are taking classes about the Bible and theology?

It does. [Read more…] about Thank God for Gifted Professors and Students

Peter O’Brien on Hebrews

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The latest volume in D. A. Carson’s Pillar New Testament Commentary series will be available in about one month, and you can order it from WTS Books for $27.50 (45% off list price) or Amazon for $31.50:

Peter T. O’Brien. The Letter to the Hebrews. Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.

Check out the 77-page PDF that samples the 600-page book.

From Carson’s preface (pp. xi–xii):

With his many years of service as scholar, missionary, and long-time lecturer at Moore Theological College, Peter O’Brien has earned a reputation that is well-nigh unique. It is the combination of virtues that is compelling: great care in handling the Scriptures, fairness in dealing with the views of others, a characteristic understatement combined with a passion for the centrality of the gospel, and, uniting all the rest, a gentleness of spirit that has captured the minds and hearts of colleagues, friends, and several decades of students. In the cutthroat world of scholarship it is difficult to find someone who will say a bad word about Peter O’Brien. [Read more…] about Peter O’Brien on Hebrews