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April 17, 2016
Review of Morgan Guyton, Part 2
Chapter 7 of How Jesus Saves the World from Us, "Communion, not Correctness," deals with the...
April 12, 2016
Review of Morgan Guyton, How Jesus Saves the World from Us (part 1)
Christianity does not have a good reputation among non-Christians in contemporary America and Western Europe....
March 2016
March 21, 2016
Is the falsifiability of Christian claims a conclusive argument for Christianity?
This article argues that it is, but I think the argument is pretty much bunk....
March 20, 2016
Further thoughts on Isaiah
I have now finished reading through Isaiah in Hebrew (I did this quite a while...
March 12, 2016
Shaped by a Tangle of Stories
I haven't posted for a while because I've been working on articles on the Reformation...
January 2016
January 29, 2016
James Payton, Part 2
Chapter 7 of Payton's Getting the Reformation Wrong focuses on the Anabaptists and other radical groups....
January 23, 2016
Review of James Payton, Getting the Reformation Wrong, part 1
James Payton's 2010 book Getting the Reformation Wrong has a provocative title (one I would love...
January 23, 2016
Letter of Melanchthon to Brenz, May 1531
I translated this letter some years ago for Dave Armstrong, who had cited parts of...
January 20, 2016
Isaiah, chaos, and idolatry (with a concluding peroration about Muslims)
I've been reading through the Bible in Hebrew for many years now, and I'm just...
January 02, 2016
Progressive revelation in the OT: A response to Jonathan Huddleston
Jonathan Huddleston, an old and dear friend of mine who is an OT scholar, has...
January 01, 2016
Why the Incarnation requires us to believe that Muslims worship the true God
So the Internet has been buzzing these past few weeks--my corner of it at least--with...
December 2015
December 17, 2015
In memoriam magistri Latomi dilecti
I first met David Steinmetz in April 1995, more than twenty years ago. I was...
November 2015
November 29, 2015
The Remarkable Career of a Young Academic (to the tune of “The Vicar of Bray”)
When I got out of graduate school,I applied to a Christian college,Where I found it...
September 2015
September 18, 2015
Patheos blog on Pope Francis
I was invited to participate in a panel of responses to Pope Francis' upcoming visit...
September 07, 2015
Kim Davis and the ethics of workplace resistance
I hadn't planned to write a formal blog post about Kim Davis. I've gotten involved...
September 03, 2015
Wolf Hall and the myth of the Moral Pragmatist
The BBC/PBS miniseries Wolf Hall is six hours of some of the most absorbing television...
September 03, 2015
Acton blog series
This summer, I wrote a series of blogs on my experiences at the "Acton Institute"...
June 2015
June 14, 2015
Canon and authority–a common Catholic argument analyzed
One of the strongest Catholic arguments against Protestantism is the challenge, "how do you explain...
May 2015
May 16, 2015
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 7–final thoughts
When I began this series, I made it clear that I approached Boyd's theology with...
April 2015
April 19, 2015
Letter to the board of trustees of Northwest Nazarene University with regard to the firing of Tom Oord
I did not originally intend this as an open letter, but my wife urged me...
April 14, 2015
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 6–how it all fits together
Boyd's "warfare theology" is a comprehensive account of how God relates to the world in...
March 2015
March 15, 2015
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 5–open theism
As I said in my first post in this series, my knowledge of open theism...
February 2015
February 02, 2015
The Two Messengers
Perhaps to the clear-eyed angelThere was nothing in the word he brought but glory:Infinite splendor...
January 2015
January 15, 2015
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 4–the “blueprint model”
Boyd's antagonist throughout his two volumes of "warfare theology" is something he calls the "blueprint...
December 2014
December 08, 2014
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 3–Creation
Boyd's "warfare theology" rests on a doctrine of creation as an act whereby God gives...
December 04, 2014
Immanentizing the eschaton
Conservatives are fond of saying that one shouldn't "immanentize the eschaton." What else, I ask,...
November 2014
November 13, 2014
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 2–God at war in Scripture
The first of Boyd's two books on "warfare theology," God at War, focuses primarily on the...
November 13, 2014
Thoughts on Isaiah, ISIS, and the Peaceable Kingdom
A few things that jump out at me from reading Isaiah in Hebrew (I'm on...
October 2014
October 21, 2014
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology, part 1
One of the major theological controversies in the evangelical world in the past couple of...
August 2014
August 23, 2014
The Victory of Reason–a review
Rodney Stark is one of the foremost living sociologists of religion. His 2000 book Acts...
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