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March 2017

March 20, 2017

The Oddest Question Theologians Ask

There are good questions -- How can a good God permit suffering? There are bad...

March 06, 2017

Faith as Allegiance

We believe in salvation by faith alone. But what does "faith" mean? Matthew Bates throws...

September 2016

September 07, 2016

A Word-y People

St Francis never said it so far as we know, but many have attributed it...

May 2016

May 09, 2016

Gospel vs. Caricature

He's done it again. Josh Butler has a second book: The Pursuing God: A Reckless, Irrational,...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

One More Time, What kind of literature is a Gospel?

You can imagine yourself -- as I have done in a lecture more than once...

February 17, 2016

In which he makes the Case for Jesus

If you were educated in a less-than-orthodox or just slightly-less-than-orthodox or in an orthodox-but-let's-leave-that-to-the-side context,...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

From Jesus Traditions to the Gospels themselves

There was a period, perhaps as long as a generation (e.g., 30-40 years), between Jesus'...

December 2015

December 15, 2015

What Happened to Jesus?

The intent of James D.G. Dunn's 3-volume set is to take us from Jesus to...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

The Gospel of Holistic Mission (C. René Padilla)

Very few evangelicals in Latin America are respected as much and none more than René...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

Heaven Promise Livestream Event

Missed Scot's LIVE Q&A on The Heaven Promise? Not to worry...you can watch it...

September 22, 2015

Transformation: How Vital to the NT Gospel?

Martin Luther is famous for arguing -- in the presence of observable realities in his...

April 2015

April 03, 2015

A Gospel that Sets Us Free! The Apocalyptic Gospel

In a previous post I grabbed Douglas Campbell's detailed, analytical outline of what he calls...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

An Old Idea Returns

I was talking with a pastor not that long ago who told me the most...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Paul’s Big Gospel (by John Frye)

I have not seen Romans 2:16 quoted in any of the popular soterian gospels that...

January 22, 2015

NT Wright’s Holy Impatience

When it comes to the meaning of biblical terms -- like gospel, kingdom, heaven --...

January 15, 2015

Surprised by King Jesus

Maybe N.T Wright's best title yet is Surprised by Hope, that word "surprise" giving Wright...

January 12, 2015

Simply Good News: NT Wright’s New Book

C.S. Lewis sketched "mere" Christianity in those famous radio talks after World War 2 and...

November 2014

November 04, 2014

Jesus as the Means, the “Good Fairy”

In a letter from Franz Ernst Pfisterer to his former seminary professor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pfisterer...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

The Gospel and Global Warming (RJS)

Jonathan Moo and Robert White in Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis turn...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Repairing the World: Tikkun Olam

What if we take this sentence in its full force: "Jesus is the Savior of...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

The Gospel and the Nones

Here is a fact: the median church size in America is now at 108 (down...

February 2014

February 19, 2014

From the Other Angle

The Onion's piece of how a person thinks about the soterian-gospel-in-brief strikes the person hearing...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

14 Gospel Distortions (Howard Snyder)

A very good set of observations by Howard Snyder, and if you go to the...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

The Boring Word in Theology

That word is "prolegomena" and it bores readers to begin a book with pages and...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

The Gospels of Sin Management and Their Empty Allegiance

American evangelicalism is what it is because of its gospel. Dallas Willard calls its gospel...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

Chew It Through Afresh (RJS)

Fairly often in the discussion of issues surrounding the intersection of science and faith some...

July 01, 2013

What Kuyper Said

What Abraham Kuyper said about religion can be said about the gospel. Here's Kuyper: Of...

June 2013

June 22, 2013

King Jesus — in Japanese

Ever since Sachi Nakamura (Twitter) contacted me about translating King Jesus Gospel into Japanese I've...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

From the Shepherd’s Nook, by John Frye

Soterian “Destination Gospel” The soterian gospel boils down the biblical Story of the King Jesus...

April 24, 2013

You might have a soterian gospel if you…

The soterian gospel is a rhetorical bundle of lines about the doctrine of salvation that...