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2019-04-17T23:30:02-04:00

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Jesus the Priest?

Last updated on: April 17, 2019 at 11:30 pm By Michael F. Bird

Nicholas Perrin Jesus the Priest Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2019. Available at Baker Academic. Nicholas Perrin (Wheaton College) has completed the second volume of his trilogy of books about Jesus. The tirst one was Jesus the Temple and the next one will be Jesus the Sacrifice. In Jesus the Priest, Perrin offers a new paradigm for understanding the historical Jesus as a self-consciously priestly figure. Perrin challenges the standard anti-cultic and anti-clerical reading of classic texts (e.g. the Lord’s Prayer, Parable of the Sower, the... Read more

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2019-08-02T02:47:48-04:00

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Asian Christian Theology

Last updated on: August 2, 2019 at 2:47 am By Michael F. Bird

Okay folks, one of the top theology books for 2019, a major publishing event for sure, is this one: Timoteo D Gener and Stephen T Pardue (eds), Asian Christian Theology: Evangelical Perspectives (London: Langham, 2019). TIMOTEO D. GENER (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA) is Chancellor and Professor of Theology at Asian Theological Seminary, Quezon City, Philippines. He is Moderator of the Theological Commission of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches and a member of the World Evangelical Alliance Task Force on Ecumenical Affairs. An Asian theologian and pastor-teacher,... Read more

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2019-04-16T01:48:25-04:00

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Loving Your Enemies in an Era of Tribal Politics

Last updated on: April 16, 2019 at 1:48 am By Michael F. Bird

Arthur C. Brooks (US social scientist) has a book out called Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt which looks like a scintillating read. Here’s the blurb: America has developed a “culture of contempt.” We increasingly view people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect or misguided, but as worthless. This is warping political discourse, tearing us apart as people, and even wrecking our health. But we can fight back. Drawing on ancient wisdom,... Read more

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2019-07-28T20:40:01-04:00

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Mondays with Moo – Rom 1:18-32

Last updated on: July 28, 2019 at 8:40 pm By Michael F. Bird

More from Douglas Moo’s second edition of Romans, this time on Rom 1:18-32. Every person is ‘without excuse’ because every person – whether a first-century pagan or a twenty-first-century materialist – has been given a knowledge of God and has spurned that knowledge in favor of idolatry, in all its varied manifestation. All therefore stand under the awful reality of the wrath of God, and all are in desperate need of the justifying power of the gospel of Christ. We... Read more

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2019-04-25T19:32:53-04:00

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A Taxonomy of Today’s Fake Gospels

Last updated on: April 25, 2019 at 7:32 pm By Michael F. Bird

I read that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came second. The judges could not tell the true Chaplain from the fake Chaplin. Sadly, many Christians cannot tell a true gospel from a fake one. The danger is that if someone proclaims a false gospel then you will get a false Christian or a false sense of assurance or reinforced religiosity. If you preach a gospelette you get a Christianette. An incoherent gospel yields an incoherent... Read more

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2019-04-08T23:52:51-04:00

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Submission in Philippians 2:5-11

Last updated on: April 8, 2019 at 11:52 pm By Michael F. Bird

Great quote from M. Sydney Park about submission in the Christ Hymn of Philippians 2: “Submission, as portrayed in Philippians, is not the consequence of oppression or coercion. Rather, it is offered freely, and reflects the self-giving character of God in the salvation events (2.6-11). Moreover, as the recipients of that grace, believers are exhorted to demonstrate a similar self-kenotic behaviour/mindset in their mutual relations. Regardless of the context of social order, gender and status, each believer is called to... Read more

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2019-07-21T22:24:41-04:00

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Morna Hooker on Mark’s Syro-Phoenician Woman

Last updated on: July 21, 2019 at 10:24 pm By Michael F. Bird

Great quote from Morna D. Hooker: “The Gentile woman [Syro-Phoenician] requests a cure outside the context of Jesus’ call to Israel; she seems to be asking for a cure which is detached from the inbreaking of God’s Kingdom, merely taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the presence of a miracle worker. This is perhaps the reason for Jesus’ stern answer; his healings are part of something greater and cannot be torn out of that context. Mark does not interpret... Read more

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2019-07-21T22:18:42-04:00

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Mondays with Moo on Romans

Last updated on: July 21, 2019 at 10:18 pm By Michael F. Bird

I’m teaching Romans again this semester, so I’m going to gradually read through the second edition of Douglas Moo’s The Letter to the Romans, second edition (2018) every Monday as preparation. So far I can say that this is a great update to an already terrific volume! What emerges as especially significant from this sketch of Paul’s own situation is that he writes his letter to the Romans at an important transition point in his missionary career. For almost twenty-five years,... Read more

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2019-07-18T17:36:15-04:00

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The Rhythm of the Christian Life

Last updated on: July 18, 2019 at 5:36 pm By Michael F. Bird

Brian J. Wright The Rhythm of the Christian Life: Recapturing the Joy of Life Together Abilene: Leafwood Publishers, 2019. Available at Amazon.com. This book by my former PhD student Dr. Brian Wright resources Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together for a pattern of modern discipleship. The foreword is by Timothy George! Blurb: Most of us think that if we could simply balance our lives better, we would be happier. But what we actually need is to rediscover the rhythm. As Christians, our whole life... Read more

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2019-04-05T06:08:48-04:00

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Nympha, the Laodicean House Church, and the Household Codes

Last updated on: April 5, 2019 at 6:08 am By Michael F. Bird

Very interesting remark from Margaret MacDonald about Colossians 4, Nympha, the church that meets in her house, and negotiating the household codes: “According to the author of Colossians, the house of Nympha offered the perfect space for the performance of this text (4:15-16). Colossians 4:16 calls for a public reading of Paul’s letter in the church of Laodicea that in all likelihood met in Nympha’s house. Here it is the modern interpreter who encounters irony. We are to imagine patriarchal... Read more

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