Regeneration secures right knowledge as well as right feeling; and right feeling is not the effect of right knowledge, nor is right knowledge the effect of right feeling. The two are inseparable effects of a work which affects the whole soul." —Cornelius Van Til...
Books
ACPADI Book Club
Would you like to join the All the Cool People Are Doing It (ACPADI) Book Club? Our subtitular name is the Blogape Book Consortium (BBC) if you don’t like ACPADI. There are only two members so far, but we are willing to grant that more cool people exist, and we have...
Blogape vs. C.S. Lewis? Joyfully, No.
My dissertation chapter on joy argues that the article on joy from the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible is mistaken about much of the following. Joy. Positive human condition that can be either feeling or action. The Bible uses joy in both senses. Joy as Feeling. Joy...
The New BestCommentaries.com
BestCommentaries.com has gotten a nice redesign—and it added the one feature I most consistently missed. You can now look up a particular commentary set and see how high its individual volumes are ranked. That means you can quickly get an idea how valuable a given set...
Can Anyone Tell Me What Calvin Wrote?
In the commandments of the Law [Matt 22:34–40, the Great Commandments], God does not look at what men can do, but at what they ought to do; since in this infirmity of the flesh it is impossible that perfect love can obtain dominion, for we know how strongly all the...
Top Five Reasons Why the BibleWorks 9 Upgrade is Worth $159
You should get the brand new BibleWorks 9. Let me give a count-down of the reasons: 5. Barry Beitzel’s Moody Atlas of the Bible. This is a quality resource. 4. The Use tab. BW9 automatically looks up all the occurrences of any word you have highlighted. Handy, because...
The Western Creed
A new friend gave me a nice gift upon the successful defense of my dissertation, Horton’s new systematic theology. Horton makes some artful statements in the intro. See if you can catch the ironic theme: For over three centuries now, atheists and skeptics have...
Evangelicals Are Top Highlighters in Kindle Books
Evangelicals are the top highlighters of Kindle books. Five of the top ten highlighted books are Bibles or Christian books (Radical by David Platt is no. 9): Three self-help books, one debauched fiction title (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and one crazy piece of...
A Truly Good Deal on an Exceptionally Good Series of Books
The New Studies in Biblical Theology series has the equivalent of a conservative Protestant imprimatur: “Edited by D.A. Carson.” (A J.I. Packer blurb was the going imprimatur, but he became a little too profligate with it [see no. 7 here] and we had to pick a new...
ST vs BT
I saved this little quote in my draft folder for some time, and when I pulled it out again I forgot where I got it. It sounded like John Frame, and I did a Google Books search for it fully expecting to see Frame’s Doctrine of the Word of God come up. But no, it was...
A Sword that Cuts Off Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Heads
Sometimes the principled reasons people give for taking a position are just window dressing, good for public display but only incidental to the heart of the matter, which is the state of their hearts. —Stanley Fish, The Trouble with Principle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard...
Tips and Links for Studying Jewish Documents
David Instone-Brewer of Tyndale House offers some resources for studying Jewish documents. I have found it frustrating a few times to locate and translate Jewish documents relevant to NT study. Looks like this page will be a help. Be sure to submit your e-mail address...