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2019-09-13T22:11:24-04:00

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John Locke on the Toleration of Catholics

Last updated on: September 13, 2019 at 10:11 pm By Michael F. Bird

You might be familiar with John Locke’s famous treatise A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), but a new manuscript has been discovered by Locke on The Toleration of Catholics (1667-68) which allegedly precedes his famous work on toleration. See J. C. WALMSLEY and FELIX WALDMANN, “JOHN LOCKE AND THE TOLERATION OF CATHOLICS: A NEW MANUSCRIPT,” The Historical Journal (2019). The following Communication presents a newly discovered manuscript by John Locke. The manuscript dates from 1667–8 and it deserves notice as the most significant example of Locke’s thought on the... Read more

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2020-01-08T19:02:02-04:00

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Is Nothing Sacred? The Contemporary Practice of Revising Hymns

Last updated on: January 8, 2020 at 7:02 pm By Michael F. Bird

By Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton We recently finished reading our way through and conversing about an ancient meditation on God’s redemption of humanity. We’ve both read it before, several times in fact. It’s housed in a beautiful, slender volume—the kind that has that great old book smell and can profit the soul just by looking at it on the bookshelf.[1] Its foxed pages contain the kind of soul-food that nourishes ones enjoyment of God and provokes thoughts like,... Read more

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2020-01-18T00:41:12-04:00

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N.T. Wright, History, Anglicanism, and Prayer

Last updated on: January 18, 2020 at 12:41 am By Michael F. Bird

As part of the promotion for The New Testament in its World, N.T. Wright did a great talk at The Rock Church in San Diego (see below) and a terrific podcast with Russell Moore on The Signposts Podcast. Terrific stuff about kingdom of God, heaven, worldwide Anglicanism, how Tom reads the Bible, and prayer. Read more

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2019-09-13T20:19:36-04:00

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F. Scott Spencer on the Gospel of Luke

Last updated on: September 13, 2019 at 8:19 pm By Michael F. Bird

F. Scott Spencer Luke (THNTC); ed. J. B. Green. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019. Available at Eerdmans and Koorong. This is easily one of best written and “edgy” Luke commentaries I’ve read for a while – and I read a lot. I have several favourites in Luke commentaries: Green (NICNT), Bock (BECNT), Tannehill (Fortress) and this is definitely up there with them. F. Scott Spencer has spent a career in Luke-Acts and it shows in this Luke commentary, one of... Read more

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2019-09-20T19:55:23-04:00

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How Theological is New Testament Theology?

Last updated on: September 20, 2019 at 7:55 pm By Michael F. Bird

William Wrede declared that “New Testament theology has its goal simply in itself, and is totally indifferent to all dogma and systematic theology” and he sneered, “How the systematic theologian gets on with its results and deals with them – that is his own affair.” Wrede wants a “pure” (German: rein) descriptive historical investigation, but this is simply naïve if not outright impossible. The presuppositions of the interpreter are unavoidable and the implications of one’s findings are inescapable. Let us... Read more

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2020-01-12T01:48:11-04:00

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What Happens in the Lord’s Supper and Why it’s a Big Deal

Last updated on: January 12, 2020 at 1:48 am By Michael F. Bird

Francis Chan recently preached a sermon where he said that we’ve replaced the Lord’s Supper with “one guy and his pulpit” and he also decried the mere memorialism of such evangelical practice of the Lord’s Supper and the marginalization of the Lord’s Supper to elevate the role of preaching. “For 1500 years there was never one guy and his pulpit being the center of the church. It was the body and blood of Christ, and even the leaders just saw themselves... Read more

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2020-01-16T15:05:09-04:00

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Can We Apply the New Testament Household Codes Today?

Last updated on: January 16, 2020 at 3:05 pm By Michael F. Bird

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd once appeared on the talk show Q&A where he was asked by a member of the audience why he, as a Christian, doesn’t believe what Jesus says in the Bible about marriage being a divinely sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. His reply was curt and forceful version of a reductio absurdum argument: “Well mate, if I was gonna have that view, the Bible says that slavery is a natural condition. Because... Read more

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2019-09-13T07:34:44-04:00

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Isaiah and Early Christian Mission Theology

Last updated on: September 13, 2019 at 7:34 am By Michael F. Bird

The Isaianic theme of Israel being called to be a “light to the Gentiles” (42:6; 49:6) finds expression in the mission theology of Luke-Acts. In the Lucan infancy narrative, Simeon announces that in the baby Jesus he has seen ‘a light for revelation to the Gentiles’ (Lk 2:32; echoing Ps 98:3; Isa 52:10; 49:6). This motif is also paradigmatic in Acts where Jews and Gentile alike are co-recipients of the salvation through Jesus. Walter Kaiser suggests that Acts 1:8 is... Read more

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2019-09-13T06:55:54-04:00

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The Ecclesiology of Thomas Torrance

Last updated on: September 13, 2019 at 6:55 am By Michael F. Bird

Here is a guest article by Dr. Kate Tyler about her PhD Thesis now published as The Ecclesiology of Thomas F. Torrance (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2019). In the early days of trying to define a research topic in order to apply to a PhD programme, I had grand plans to combine the narrative approach of biblical theology, a fulsome systematic engagement with ecclesiology, and various missiological insights. If I had been allowed to take that path, I would probably still be working on... Read more

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2019-12-20T22:41:06-04:00

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Council of Nicaea Rap Battle Video

Last updated on: December 20, 2019 at 10:41 pm By Michael F. Bird

A few years ago I wrote the lyrics for a rap battle that took place at the council of Nicaea. Now, I’m glad to say that Rev. Andrew Court of Life Anglican Church in Sydney has recorded it and put it on You.Tube. Informative and amusing! See below: Read more

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