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Mark Ward
Review: Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism
Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism by R.C. Sproul Sproul begins his book with utter clarity: in the debate between Roman Catholicism and evangelical, Reformation Protestantism, the gospel itself is at stake. It takes him just a page and half to...
Top 50 Biblioblogs for November 2012
I just checked out again the Biblioblog top 50—the 50 biblical studies-related blogs that had the most hits in the past month. That includes a pretty big bunch of blogs, nearly 600 from across the theological (and even atheistical) spectrum. So why are there...
Review: A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts
A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts by Dwight Gustafson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love Dr. Gustafson's choral (and other) compositions. I've sung them in German in Germany and in Polish in Poland. I've sung under Dr. Gus' baton as the great...
The New Media
Facebook, Twitter, and Google ... have inadvertently created an electorate able, should it choose—and apparently it does—to read only the news that confirms its political instincts. This, too, has contributed to polarization and ignorance. —Claire Berlinski in City...
Review: Why Do We Baptize Infants?
Why Do We Baptize Infants? by Bryan Chapell My rating: 2 of 5 stars A Baptist can't give three stars to a book, even a good one, arguing for infant baptism. But if all I were evaluating was clarity and brevity, Chapell might actually get four stars. His thesis is...
Beautiful
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Read more[John] Milbank’s fundamental double claim: first, that if God is who Christians say he is and if he has done what Christians say he has done, then theology, the science of God, presents the “metanarrative” of history, the organizing logic of all knowledge, with the right and responsibility to intervene to correct all other sciences; and, second, that modern theology has steadily ceded its terrain to secular thought, so that instead of positioning other sciences theology has been positioned by them and rendered itself superfluous.
Leithart on Milbank
[John] Milbank’s fundamental double claim: first, that if God is who Christians say he is and if he has done what Christians say he has done, then theology, the science of God, presents the “metanarrative” of history, the organizing logic of all knowledge, with the...
The Naked Public Square
The public square, like nature, abhors a vacuum. If it is not filled with the lively expression of the most deeply held convictions of the people, including their convictions grounded in religion, it will be filled by the quasi-religious beliefs of secularism’ as...
Black Friday Deal for Bloggers
I use the Standard theme for my blog (as do Brian Collins and Andy Naselli, FWIW). It’s very well done. I ponied up $100 for the Support License so I could install it on other people’s sites. But till Monday, that license is only $69.30. And the basic, one-site...