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August 2004

August 16, 2004
Paul Rahe has a fascinating article in the Summer 2004 issue of the Wilson Quarterly...
August 15, 2004
1 Kings 1:25 This morning?s sermon text contrasts two rival princes, both vying for the...
August 15, 2004
Slavery is back in the local news, and it?s a good time once again to...
August 14, 2004
In most Reformation theology, imputation is a distinct act from justification. God Christ’s righteousness to...
August 14, 2004
Many Protestants today, perhaps most in the Reformed churches, believe that justification by faith is...
August 14, 2004
We tend to think of desire as the antithesis of submission to authority. Saying “I...
August 14, 2004
We tend to think of desire as the antithesis of submission to authority. Saying “I...
August 13, 2004
Here is a very rough, very wooden and literal, translation of 1 Kings 1. Now...
August 13, 2004
Descartes is often credited with being the fountainhead of modern philosophy, but Robert Solomon suggess...
August 13, 2004
I continue to be very impressed with Victor Wilson’s Divine Symmetries . Here are a...
August 13, 2004
INTRODUCTION 1 Kings 1 moves from ?King David?E(first phrase of v 1) to ?King Solomon?E(vv...
August 08, 2004
2 Kings 25:27-30 Kings, as we?ve seen, is not only a book about the unfaithfulness...
August 08, 2004
Roman Catholics and Protestants have both appealed to Kings to explore the significance of their...
August 06, 2004
Von Balthasar argues that Jesus is the archetypal child, who lives in constant dependence on...
August 06, 2004
One of the most stimulating works on infant baptism that I’ve found is Kurt Stasiak’s...
August 06, 2004
INTRODUCTION No area of sacramental theology exposes assumptions concerning sacraments, and indeed concerning the Christian...
August 05, 2004
INTRODUCTION Underlying much of what I have said in the previous lecture is a conviction...
August 05, 2004
INTRODUCTION The Eucharist has often been expounded upon in categories drawn from Aristotelian philosophy, modern...
August 05, 2004
This and the following two posts are lecture notes for lectures on sacramental theology that...
August 05, 2004
Here is a story written by my son, Christian, age 14. Tramps, as you probably...
August 05, 2004
Here is a story written by my son, Christian, age 14. Tramps, as you probably...
August 03, 2004
Acts 2:23 is often cited as a central text in understanding the doctrine of foreordination;...
August 03, 2004
An Eternal Kingdom, 1 Kings 16:8-34 INTRODUCTION Reading 1-2 Kings from beginning to end might...
August 03, 2004
Alessandro Baricco, Without Blood . Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A....
August 02, 2004
Donald A. Norman, Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things (Basic Books, 2004),...
August 01, 2004
Psalm 107:22 We saw in the sermon that song accompanies the ascension offering in the...
August 01, 2004
God created a world with three environments. At the center of the world was a...
August 01, 2004
Luke 14:21-24 The parable of the wedding feast is a parable about the kingdom, where...

July 2004

July 30, 2004
INTRODUCTION Antony and Cleopatra is set in the 30s BC, during the period of the...
July 30, 2004
One Thomas Merriam has a very intriguing article on “Parallel Ironies: Henry VIII (All Is...
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