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Frame on Enns
John Frame has an excellent review of Peter Enns's Inspiration and Incarnation that he just posted to his website. (Thanks…
June 12, 2008
My Wedding Vows
Originally my thinking about wedding vows ran like this: The Bible doesn't require a church wedding; it's more the best…
June 6, 2008
Stanley Fish and the Norming Norm
Who gets to define "normal"? Some in the deaf community do not want cochlear implants because giving them hearing would…
June 5, 2008
“Fundamentalist” vs. “Critical”
Some startling headlines are coming out about a major international survey of attitudes toward the Bible. Fundamentalists, it seems, don't…
June 3, 2008
Married, Hitched, Plunged
I am married. I have gotten hitched. I have taken the plunge. It was well worth it. I wish I…
June 3, 2008
Christian Worldliness Skewered by a Secular Jew
This is too good not to pass on immediately—from a newsletter I write for BJU that goes out to churches: Evangelical…
May 20, 2008
The OED on “magic”
This is the section of the OED entry on "magic" relevant to the Prince Caspian discussion: The 'magic' which made…
May 19, 2008
Magic in the Narniad and Righteous Indignation
The release of Prince Caspian occasioned some discussion at my office recently. Some good Christians are—understandably, if they haven't read…
May 19, 2008
Christ and Culture Revisited; General Critiques of Niebuhr
In chapter 2 of Christ and Culture Revisited Carson offers some general critiques of Niebuhr which do not tie themselves…
May 19, 2008
Fundamentalism and “An Evangelical Manifesto”
Os Guinness, Richard Mouw, Tim George, David Neff, and others have released "An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity…
May 12, 2008
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (5)
The final three views in Niebuhr's five-fold taxonomy are all forms of "Christ above culture." 5. Christ the Transformer of…
May 8, 2008
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (4)
The final three views in Niebuhr's five-fold taxonomy are all forms of "Christ above culture." 4. Christ and Culture in…
May 7, 2008
Quick Questions For/About Helm
I just expressed appreciation in my last post for what I felt was a very helpful point on Paul Helm's…
May 2, 2008
Paul Helm on John Piper on N.T. Wright
I'm aiming at an early seminary readership (or its equivalent) on this blog, so let me summarize some fairly difficult…
May 1, 2008
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (3)
The final three views in Niebuhr's five-fold taxonomy are all forms of "Christ above culture." 3. Christ above Culture Summary:…
April 30, 2008
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (2)
2. The Christ of Culture Summary: Christians who take this view "seek to maintain community with all believers. Yet they…
April 30, 2008
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (1)
Here is a summary of Carson's summary of what is, in sum, the most influential taxonomy of relationships Christians take…
April 30, 2008
How Can We Know That We Know What We Know?
Here is a quick summary of some of N.T. Wright's epistemological proposal in his 1992 The New Testament and the…
April 28, 2008
Proverbs 20:11
Legend: "PN:" = "Personal Note" Proverbs 20:11 reads in the KJV, Even a child is known by his doings, whether…
April 24, 2008
Reader’s Hebrew Bible from Zondervan
If you know Hebrew (or are learning), you've got to check this out. I know the author—he's a few feet…
April 22, 2008
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