An absolute must-read article, from the now-dying author of a book I purchased when I'd gotten about a third of the way through.
Theology
Did Jephthah Sacrifice His Daughter—Yes or No?
A post of mine at the Logos Talk Blog regarding Jephthah has generated a great deal of interesting discussion from readers. I'm getting a little cross-section of evangelical hermeneutics in action. I urge my personal blog readers to go and take the vote in the middle...
JA! In Which I Answer the Top Biblioblogger
Doug Wilson wrote a post asking a provocative question about Bible translations. I wrote a post for the Logos Talk Blog answering that question. One of the top bibliobloggers out there just flatly contradicted my answer—the title of his is a (Barth-like) "NEIN!" I...
Edwards Manuscripts
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, assisted by the Jonathan Edwards Center, recently completed a high-resolution scan of the entire Edwards Collections at both Yale University and Andover Newton Theological School. To view and use the scans, click...
Conversion and Sanctification in Young Children in Christian Homes
From: J (used by permission) Sent: Thursday To: Mark L. Ward, Jr. I had a specific question that I wanted to ask you. Feel free to answer this at any time and to any extent that you are able. You mentioned to me once that [one of our respected mutual friends] had told...
Ross Douthat Vs. Liberal Catholicism
Sometimes even I, Protestant though my bones be, wish for a pope—someone to solve all our hermeneutical difficulties and differences. In my favor, of course. But in exchange for the perfect unity a magisterial teaching authority would give us all, I would be willing...
Excellent, Positive, Constructive Comment on what Conservatism Is
Roger Scruton: There is a kind of conservatism that sees all political questions as reducible to economics, with the free market as the ruling principle and the expansion of consumer choice as the only coherent political program. This way of looking at things can be...
Robert Gagnon vs. J. Daniel Kirk on Homosexuality
Note: You can download a 279MB audio version here. Valley Presbyterian Church of Phoenix, Arizona, a congregation of the Presybterian Church (USA) is having a formal, church-wide discussion regarding whether or not active homosexual persons will be permitted to serve...
Colin Gunton on Frameworks of Belief
All interpretation is shaped by the frameworks of belief which we bring to it; the hope is that the text—or rather the Holy Spirit’s opening up of the text—will enable us both to use and to transcend those frameworks with ever new insights into the truth of the...
Review: J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life
J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life by Leland Ryken My rating: 4 of 5 stars One of my favorite evangelical jokes showed up in a Christianity Today a number of years ago. It was an ad for a (fake) new book called The Collected Blurbs of J. I. Packer. The joke, if you...
Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption Promo Video
Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption now has a promo page on bjupress.com. If you haven't yet purchased a copy, you will want to do so now that there is a promo page. Bryan Smith, the presenter on the video there, is the one whose vision I was trying to live...
Absolute Must Read
I have been swept away. This article by Allen Guelzo (whose dissertation benefited my own, and whose work on Lincoln and the Civil War is waiting for me on my Kindle) is a must-read for every Christian academic. If there's anything in the world wrong with it, I can't...