Link: Amazon Length: 99 Difficulty: Medium to Easy, Popular Topic: Theology, Paul Audience: Mainstream Christians Because I am sympathetic to the New Perspective interpretation on Paul’s use of justification I take it upon myself to [ Read More … ]
In book two Calvin addresses the issue of free will. He considers these initially from a philosophical framework through the concepts of moral will and reason. Towards the end of the second section he begins [ Read More … ]
Pastor of The Summit Church draws on Martyn Lloyd-Jones One of the best books on preaching I’ve ever read is Between Two Worlds by John Stott. In it, he shared a metaphor for preaching that [ Read More … ]
Paul in the twentieth century, then, has been used and abused much as in the first. Can we, as the century draws towards its close, listen a bit more closely to him? Can we somehow [ Read More … ]
Recently I was reminded of the typical protestant reaction to a non-Christian claiming they are a ‘good person’. I’m rarely happy with how our teachers seize on the claim. It almost comes across as propaganda [ Read More … ]
Link: Amazon Length: 148 Difficulty: Medium Topic: Justification, Jews and Gentiles Audience: Mainstream Christians Published: 1976 The introspective conscience is a Western development and a Western plague. Once the introspective conscience came into the theological [ Read More … ]
This book was specifically written as an attempted rebuttal to John Dicksons book Hearing Her Voice. Generally I found the book quite disappointing. In addition it’s almost twice the size of Dicksons book. Link: Amazon [ Read More … ]
Calvin continues commenting on the Trinity. In today’s quote he refers to an early church father Gregory Nazianzen. Anyone ever heard of him? This is part of my series on Calvin’s Institutes.
Calvin is discussing the doctrine of the Trinity using an impressive array of passages to prove his arguments. It seems in his time he had to deal with Arians and Sabellians. In today’s quote he [ Read More … ]
Google says nature is ‘the basic or inherent features, character, or qualities of something’. What do the scriptures say about ‘nature’? I found that in the scriptures the noun ‘nature’ is clearly associated with creation. [ Read More … ]