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November 2013

November 27, 2013

What We Believe about “Last Things”

Christians have distinct views of the "last things" -- in fact, their view of the...

November 20, 2013

The God of the Gospel

Mike Bird contends, rightly I would say, that the heart of Christian theology is the...

November 13, 2013

The Boring Word in Theology

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

November 08, 2013

A Theology: What do we need?

What is needed to write an adequate and responsible and biblical "theology," a systematics if...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Spirituality: Calvin vs. Wesley

It could be argued that Wesleyan theology, with its emphasis on "free grace" or free...

October 23, 2013

John Piper vs. Don Thorsen

This recent post at John Piper's site (by Jonathan Parnell, but repeating what I've heard from Piper...

October 16, 2013

Where Calvin Went Wrong

Do you think meticulous sovereignty denies human's capacity to choose (for and against) something?

October 09, 2013

Grace, and the God of that Grace

A rock-solid agreement on which Christians of all stripes -- and I mean all stripes --...

October 04, 2013

The Big One in Calvin vs. Wesley

Though Don Thorsen does not say so, his study of "Humanity: More Freedom than Predestination"...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Calvinist in Thinking, Wesleyan in Living

Don Thorsen, observing over his years many of his Reformed friends, has concluded this: "Although...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Theological Showdown — The Big One

What was the biggest showdown in church history? One could make an argument for the...

June 04, 2013

The Orthodox Heretic

The unusual pairing of these two terms - orthodox and heretic - is not meant...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Getting Jesus Right

People make the goofiest claims about Jesus and often they do so in trying to...

May 26, 2013

Where was God? There, upon the cross

Theodicy is an attempt to justify God or the ways of God before the bar...

May 21, 2013

Orthodoxy was a Process

Some -- and probably far more than "some" -- believe Christian orthodoxy is a simple,...

May 13, 2013

Where Christian Theology — All of It — Begins

In the beginning was the gospel (lower case "gospel") so that all early Christian teaching...

May 08, 2013

The Case for Christian Doctrine

One of my favorite Christians of all time is Charles Sheldon, the one who lived...

April 2013

April 17, 2013

Relational Theology: Roger Olson

Roger Olson, of Truett Theological Seminary, gave a talk at Missio Alliance on "relational theology,"...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Was Karl Barth a Universalist? Roger Olson

From Roger Olson's blog-published article, the conclusion: We are coming, then, to the conclusion that...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

An Old Question Not Yet Settled

An issue for conversation, an issue I find arising more and more often in New...

February 18, 2013

What is a Progressive Anyway?

This post is by Bo Sanders, a self-confessed progressive who will sketch how he distinguishes...

February 11, 2013

What is a Liberal anyway?

Roger Olson speaks: Roger lists paradigmatic theological liberals as Schleiermacher and Marcus Borg, I'd add...

January 2013

January 15, 2013

Is God Just? (RJS)

The first of three cycles of speeches in the debate between Job and his friends...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

What About the Virgin Birth? (RJS)

Not quite a year ago I wrote about the relationship of science and virgin birth...

December 04, 2012

Restoring Theology to Biblical Theology

The problem is that Old and New Testament scholars, almost uniformly, ignore (systematic) theology in...

December 03, 2012

Biblical Theology and Canon

In the late 80s and early 90s perhaps no Old Testament scholar had built around...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

NT Wright’s “Worldview-Story” as Biblical Theology

In a spectrum from history to systematic theology, where does someone like NT Wright fit?...

November 28, 2012

Biblical Theology as Salvation History

How does one read the Bible "biblically," that is how does one read it right?...

November 26, 2012

When is Theology Truly “Biblical”

Everyone claims their theology is biblical. Which means "biblical" is used by everyone and so...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

Why is the Universe Unfathomably Large? (RJS)

I wrote a post a while back Why would God use 4.6 Billion years? This...