I’m late, I’m late… I was on a professional development trip and I just couldn’t get the last post of the month out. I needed to redeem the time a little better, apparently. So here we go: Redemption. First I’ll just tick off a few reflections: Normally I’m...
Theology
Fish on Augustine
Let Stanley Fish tell you something about your own theological tradition that you should know if you don’t already. This is from Fish’s conversation with Marvin Olasky before an audience of students at King’s College: Those of you who have studied Augustine will...
ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 3, Chapter 3: “Fall”
The chapter on fall shows that the scope of the fall is “not only the whole human race but the whole nonhuman world.” (p. 53) Wolters ticks off some of the domains affected by Adam’s sin: marriage the family the state the environment the arts the academy technology...
ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 2, Chapter 2: “Creation”
It’s hard to write a brief post on this chapter! Don’t feel you have to read the whole summary; it’s here for your use and mine both now and in the future. Just pick out what interests you in the book, scan my post to see if I added anything, and make a comment....
An Insight from C.S. Lewis through Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson: In another of Lewis's books, The Great Divorce, he describes heaven as a place of real solidity and real color compared to the shadowy ghost world down below. We sometimes think that when Jesus rose from the dead, He turned into a kind of ghost. After...
Great Hodge Quote
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...
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...
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...
A Biblical Theology of Garment Tassels
A Jewish man in Israel with tassels on his shirt, a yarmulke, and prominent payot (ringlets of hair). © Mark L. Ward, Jr., 2010. I was just studying Numbers 15 for my church's Sunday School, and I came across this little paragraph: Tassels on Garments The Lord said to...
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...
The Rosary
I read the Sermon on the Mount often as a child—mainly because I thought it was cool that it was the biggest stretch of red letters I could find in the New Testament. But Jesus’ teaching there is so simple and powerful that, despite my inane motivation, Jesus’ famous...