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Category Archives: Theological
Response to Hannon on Heterosexuality
Over on Mere Orthodoxy, Matthew Lee Anderson has written a helpful response to Michael Hannon’s recent First Things piece ‘Against Heterosexuality’. I read Hannon’s piece over a week ago and had a number of concerns about it when I did … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Sex and Sexuality, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Why We Shouldn’t Trust Our Stories
Earlier today, Derek Rishmawy posted a piece entitled ‘My Evangelical Story Isn’t So Bad (Or, a Ramble on Experience, Biography, & Theology)’. Within it he discusses his generally positive experience of growing up as an evangelical and how this colours … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Priestly Service in Romans 6
A few weeks ago I heard a sermon on Romans 6:15-23, during which a number of questions were raised in my mind about the way that the passage should be read. Seeing the second half of Romans 6 referenced in … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Exodus, NT, NT Theology, OT, OT Theology, Romans, Soteriology, The Sacraments, Theological
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Continuing Discussion of Women, Theology, and Representation
A few days ago, I wrote a lengthy post entitled Women, Theology, and Representation, which discussed the place of female theologians in evangelical theology. The intention of the piece was to raise some issues for discussion and debate, presenting some … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, The Church, Theological
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The Davenant Trust
The Davenant Trust has just been launched. Its mission is described as follows: We aim to equip evangelical and Reformed Christians today for church leadership, civic participation, and faithful discipleship in other vocations as responsible citizens, by encouraging scholarly research … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, On the web, Theological
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Women, Theology, and Representation
Perhaps one of the most striking features of the list of the sixty most influential evangelical theologians that was recently posted here (which I took from Gerald Hiestand, over at the Center for Pastor Theologians) was the virtual absence of … Continue reading
Posted in The Church, Theological, Uncategorized
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Review of K. Scott Oliphint’s ‘Covenantal Apologetics’
Over on The Calvinist International, my friend Joseph Minich has written a long and thoughtful review of K. Scott Oliphint’s recent book, Covenantal Apologetics. Within the review Joseph engages critically with presuppositional apologetics in the Van Tillian tradition. Here is … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, On the web, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Chris Seitz on the Biblical Crisis in the Homosexuality Debates
I have been an appreciative reader of Chris Seitz for several years now. My reading of Seitz has chiefly been driven by my interest in Brevard Childs’ canonical approach, of which Seitz is one of the leading and most articulate … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Controversies, NT, NT Theology, OT, OT Theology, Scripture, Sex and Sexuality, Theological
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The Top Sixty Evangelical Theologians
Over on the Center for Pastor Theologians (well worth following), there has been a discussion of the most influential evangelical theologians and scholars of the past fifty years. Two lists were drawn up by Gerald Hiestand: one an initial list … Continue reading
Posted in The Church, Theological
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Holy Trinity Brompton and the New Form of British Evangelicalism
Andrew Wilson has a fascinating post on his blog on the subject of the ‘new centre of British evangelicalism.’ Within it he argues that, while there are parts of British evangelicalism that are not within the ambit of its direct … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Blogosphere, The Church, Theological
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