Author Archives: Alastair Roberts

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About Alastair Roberts

Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham University) writes in the areas of biblical theology and ethics, but frequently trespasses beyond these bounds. He participates in the weekly Mere Fidelity podcast, blogs at Alastair’s Adversaria, and tweets at @zugzwanged.

Influential Blogs

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

Tim Challies discusses the question of how the influence of a particular blog/blogger is to be measured. It is quite an interesting discussion. I agree with Challies that traffic and inbound links are poor indicators of the influence of a … Continue reading →

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China Video

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

During our time in China I made a number of short videos of Mark dancing in front of some of the places that we visited. They were made into one longer video this evening. Please excuse the gratuitous silliness. The … Continue reading →

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Ax A Pirate

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

If you prefer pirates to ninjas (aarrrghh!!) this website is for you — AxAPirate.com (the guys at askaninja.com showed a degree of foresight in getting askapirate.com to redirect to their site). Some of the old videos are actually quite funny.

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David Bentley Hart on the Discipline of Theology

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

David Bentley Hart writes:— Now, as it happens, theology is actually a pitilessly demanding discipline concerning an immense, profoundly sophisticated legacy of hermeneutics, dialectics, and logic; it deals in minute detail with a vast variety of concrete historical data; over … Continue reading →

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Pirates of the Caribbean II

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

I watched it yesterday and feel that the Ninja‘s assessment is not too far from the truth.

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Back from China

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

Mark and I returned from China in the early hours yesterday. We had a tremendously enjoyable time, made many great friends and renewed fellowship with a number of others. I will probably post at length about it some time in … Continue reading →

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So What is the Federal Vision?

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

Joel asks. Does anyone have any good answers? Stephen?

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A Century of Centuries

Posted on June 24, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

Graeme Hick was my childhood sporting hero. I was born in the city of Worcester and, although I only lived there for a couple of months, my identification with my county of origin was kept strong, in large part through … Continue reading →

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Going Dark

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

Whilst I had intended to post a lengthy post on the subject of election and limited atonement, I have been feeling unwell over the last few days and never managed to do it. I have been working less and less … Continue reading →

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Surname Profiler

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Alastair Roberts

This site is a lot of fun for anyone living in or coming from the UK. It will tell you how high status your surname is (click on ‘Geographical Location’ over the map), and all sorts of other pieces of … Continue reading →

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