I rarely do this, but I felt Hodge was worth quoting at length (I added paragraph breaks and updated the Scripture reference format): Love in us includes complacency and delight in its object, with the desire of possession and communion. The schoolmen, and often the...
Books
The Theological Messages of the Old Testament Books—Book Signing!
If you’re in Greenville, don’t miss today’s book signing of Dr. Bell’s new book*! How many books in your library are exactly 500 pages?! You need this one! The title of his new book tells you what it’s about: the messages (plural) Dr. Bell delivers are the theological...
What Is the Will? Eight Views
Vernon Bourke's 1964 book Will in Western Thought has become a standard in its field. My roving dissertation eye brought me to it recently, and Inter-Library Loan did the rest. I just read the first chapter, and it was genuinely helpful for a section I'm writing on...
Recommended Books
Not too long ago my pastor decided to recommend to his congregation one book per week for ten weeks. This was the list that resulted: Knowledge of the Holy—A.W. Tozer The Glory of Christ—John Owen The Everlasting Righteousness—Horatius Bonar The Shadow of the...
Seminary Project Lab Workshops and Live Webcast
The following is a promo for Duncan Johnson’s sure-to-be-valuable lectures. I strongly urge guys training for the ministry to go to or watch at least the first two. I use a different system than Zotero, but if you have no system, go to the third one as well! Saturday,...
Billy Graham: His Life and Influence
Billy Graham is an important 20th century man, and David Aikman tells the story of His Life and Influence exceptionally well. The standard stories are all included, the bases are all covered. Aikman is certainly appreciative of Graham, but he is willing to be...
Kindle Investment
A reader writes, I have a question about e-readers. Going into the ministry, and seeing the great number of books that I am already collecting, I am considering making an investment into an e-reader mainly for convenience and a smaller book shelf! My main concern...
Logos for Mac Leaving Beta
Logos for Mac has done a lot to catch up with Logos for Windows in the last few months. I am really liking it. It is now about to leave Beta, and you should check it out (note their cool giveaway, too!). A reminder: BJU students and F/S may use this link to get a...
Congratulations!
My congratulations go to Matt Hoskinson on a very favorable review of his dissertation (published by BJU Press!) by a guy who knows what he’s talking about.
And the Winner Is!
The grand prize winner of my recent drawing, selected by random number generation, is… Drum roll, if you please! C. Howard of G., South Carolina! No, that’s too obvious. Let’s try “Chris H. of Greenville, SC”! Chris gets a Bible and a big collection of theological and...
Marsden on Darwin and Evangelicalism
Prominent historian George Marsden put it insightfully in Fundamentalism and American Culture : When Darwinism brought about the second scientific revolution, evangelicals who had adopted this method of reconciling science and religion were faced with a dilemma. … Religion would no longer be seen as dependent on historical or scientific fact susceptible of objective inquiry; religion had to do with the spiritual, with the heart, with religious experience, and with moral sense or moral action-areas not open to scientific investigation.
Language As a Tool of Theology
John Frame is someone from whom I’ve learned a great deal, and the learning continues. I found his chapter on language in his Doctrine of the Knowledge of God to be so helpful that I wanted to share the material with you. Frame begins the little section I’ll excerpt...