Peter seeks for ethical guidelines for both wives (3:1-6) and husbands (3:7) when it comes to how this small group of Christians were learning how to live (and survive) in the Roman Empire. Wives are exhorted to live with their non-Christian husbands in such a way to “gain them” for the gospel. What about husbands? |inline Read more
Here’s the article by Alan Jacobs about Wheaton’s decision to fire Joshua Hochschild. This appeared in First Things. This is a serious piece and I support Alan Jacobs. Nice to hear his voice in this matter, and it a voice that we are in a new day, one in which Catholics and Evangelicals can be much more cooperative. Jacobs could have said this more forcefully, so be careful because his hope for a greater unity might be missed. But, he’s... Read more
Joe Thorn gets my top billing this week: excellent post on how to talk about one another. The Ninth Commandment. (HT: Steve McCoy) |inline Read more
I’m BAAAAAAAAACK! |inline Read more
How do evangelical feminists and traditionalists look at 1 Peter 3:1-7? If the feminist approach is basically one of a hermeneutic of suspicion and repudiation/retrieval, how do evangelical feminists approach such texts — text asking women to be “submissive”? |inline Read more
Laura, our daughter, turns 29 today (I had to ask Kris how old Laura was — but that’s another story). She was our first child. I was in seminary (taking Murray Harris’ Advanced Exegesis class and writing a midterm that day) at the time, and we lived up near Waukegan, and the oddity is that she was born in Libertyville, and we now live there. |inline Read more
I read the volume, well not each and every page, edited by Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier, both at Wheaton, called Justification: What’s at Stake in the Debates? — don’t you just love artistic titles? Well, scholarly books rarely get cool titles. This is mostly a robust, scholarly defense of the Reformation’s understanding of justification. And that means imputation — what do you think of double imputation? Necessary or is this a mystery too? |inline Read more
Peter is explaining to his powerless readers, who are resident aliens and temporary residents, how to live as Christians within the Roman Empire. The principle that shapes his thinking is found in 2:11-12, and that principle is to avoid sin and to do good. This, he says, will make the maximum impact. First, he addresses how to relate to the State, and then how household slaves are to relate to their masters, and then he turns to wives and husbands.... Read more
Some of you may know that I played a little basketball in my day. Well, my brothers-in-law were stars. Ron Norman, the oldest, played at Iowa with Sammy Williams and Freddy Brown, and his coach was the legendary Ralph Miller. Then Tom played with Ronnie Lester at Iowa, and he played against Magic Johnson, and his coach was Lute Olsen (now at Arizona). |inline Read more
In the third section of Alan Mann’s book, Atonement for a ‘Sinless’ Society, Mann deals with the Passion narrative of the Gospels as a narrative that invites the postmodern self into the text in order to find ontological coherence through Jesus’ own coherence. I think the book deserves reading by pastor groups, seminaries, and advanced college classes. And, of course, I think the emerging movement as a whole ought to spend some time with this book. |inline Read more
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