2011-11-08T23:43:05-04:00

Earlier I posted on Al Mohler and Norman Geisler’s accusations that Michael Licona purportedly violates “inerrancy” in his superb book in defense of the historicity of the resurrection where Licona argued that the story of the raising of the holy men from ancient times in Matthew 27 was perhaps “poetic”. Well, over at Christianity Today, there is a good write up on that dust-up. Notable is this quote which provides Craig Blomberg’s view on the debate: In comments to Christianity Today,... Read more

2011-11-09T01:39:27-04:00

Bruce  W. Longenecker Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty , and the Greco-Roman World Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010 Available at Amazon.com. It is a common adage that Jesus preached good news to the poor, while Paul preached the good news of Jesus. Paul was, well, not really into all that socialist, marxist, commy crud about helping the poor.  In this volume, Bruce Longnecker (Baylor University) challenges the popular and academic consensus. Longnecker’s theses are (pp. 298-99): (more…) Read more

2011-11-07T20:25:55-04:00

Late October saw N.T. Wright’s inaugural professorial lecture at St. Andrews University on “Imagining the Kingdom: Mission and Theology in Early Christianity” (see PDF here). Here is how it starts: The four gospels stand magisterially at the head of the canon and the centre of early Christianity. They are remarkable documents. If they had been lost for centuries, and then dug up last year in the sands of Egypt, they would be hailed as among the most extraordinary writings from antiquity. Despite the... Read more

2011-11-07T00:27:09-04:00

I have just noticed that there are about 700 hundred papers being delivered at ETS this year and only eight of them will be delivered by women. What is more, I think I actually know half of the women presenters. Now maybe there are more, I looked up the index in the ETS book and some names like “Leslie” can be unisex, and I don’t know the gender of most Asian names. But even give or take a few, this... Read more

2011-11-07T00:19:46-04:00

I’m glad to provide a guest post by Dr. Myrto Theocharous (M.A. Wheaton College. Ph.D Cambridge Uni ), Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Greek Bible College in Athens. She provides some reflections from Habakkuk on the Greek economic crisis from the vantage point of a Greek evangelical. A Greek Evangelical View of the Greek Economic Crisis The Greek debt crisis, while tragic, affords the opportunity to face hitherto hidden dilemmas for evangelicals. Parallel to the prophet Habakkuk’s... Read more

2011-11-06T15:34:38-04:00

This weekend Tom Wright was the guest teacher at Willow Creek Community Church. Tom is on a book tour for his new book Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters. Tomorrow he’ll be speaking at an event at Moody Bible Institute. I heard it was an impromptu invitation from a Moody student. See story here. The Moody event takes place at 8 AM, most likely in the Torrey Auditorium I’m told. Read more

2011-11-06T00:53:55-04:00

Over at The Christian Leadership Center, Nick Perrin (Wheaton College) has a good little article on preaching the Gospel of Mark. Perrin concludes: Mark tells us about this new movement, this new messiah, and this new mission. This has all kinds of implications for how we live, the one we live for, and the cause for which we live. Perhaps the most important thing to remember in preaching Mark is that this gospel really is not an action movie of... Read more

2011-11-18T11:51:11-04:00

This brief series of posts is not so much a direct critique of DeYoung and Gilbert’s argument in their chapter on the kingdom of God in What’s the Mission of the Church?. While it is the starting point, this post is my attempt to sketch how I define the kingdom. My definition of the kingdom, as I noted in the last post, will inform both my understanding of the gospel and the mission of the church. Here’s my opinion about... Read more

2011-11-04T23:59:22-04:00

Over at the White Horse Inn, Michael Horton interviews Scot McKnight about The King Jesus Gospel in an audio program (here’s the link). Read more

2011-11-04T15:48:42-04:00

Last week Al Mohler (Southern Seminary) and Jim Wallis (Sojourners) debated whether social justice is an essential part of the church’s mission. This of course is relevant to the discussion DeYoung and Gilbert’s book. Matthew Lee Anderson was present and wrote a review of the debate on the Gospel Coalition blog. In this excerpt, at the conclusion of the review, Anderson critically reflects on the terms “integral” and “implication”. Is social justice integral to the gospel or is it an... Read more




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