Category Archives: What I’m Reading

…that I have entered into my second year of blogging on alastair.adversaria. I first started blogging on 40Bicycles in the middle of September 2003 and moved to my present blog after moving up to study in the University of St. … Continue reading →

Group dynamics are both enjoyable and troubling to observe. It is interesting to see some groups where each person ends up doing things that they would never do and being a sort of person that they would never be if … Continue reading →

This week I started back into lectures and tutorials again. I am studying Biblical Exegesis and Theological Explorations this semester, both of which I am enjoying so far. Most of my modules this year will be exegesis-based; next semester I … Continue reading →

I recently commented on the parable of the Pharisee and the tax-collector on this blog. I remain convinced that the parable has little or nothing to do with classic legalism at all. Those who read it to prove such a … Continue reading →

John at Confessing Evangelical has a perceptive post comparing certain statements in Lutheran confessional documents with their counterparts in the Heidelberg Catechism. On all of the issues that he list, I am of the opinion that the Lutheran form is … Continue reading →

I spent this morning sorting books in preparation for the annual second-hand book sale in aid of the Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum of Primitive Methodism. Each year tens of thousands of books are sold. I have attended the sale … Continue reading →

A good reminder that general agreement on the principle of human equality actually gives us very little in the way of practical agreement.

This morning I listened to John Piper’s recent sermon on Luke 18. As A.B. Caneday observes, John Piper seems to think that he has N.T. Wright’s view of justification firmly in his crosshairs. Unfortunately, he seems to be seriously off … Continue reading →

You scored as Luther. You are Martin Luther. You’ll stick with the words of Scripture, and defend this with earthy expressions. You believe in an orthodox Christology. You believe that the bread and wine are the Body and Blood of … Continue reading →