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2014-10-22T09:04:34-04:00

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How I Met Your Vanhoozer (HIMYV)

Last updated on: October 22, 2014 at 9:04 am By Paul C. Maxwell

Irony of ironies: I was skipping my Systematic Theology II class to have a coffee meeting with Kevin Vanhoozer (Marcus Johnson understood). No big deal. I was nineteen years old. A sophomore at Moody Bible Institute. Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible and Drama of Doctrine were barely a couple years old. I was meeting the emperor of evangelicalism. Epic. Meeting at a Starbucks, what would I say to Kevin Vanhoozer? I bought a coffee before he got there. He arrived with willing cheer.... Read more

2014-10-02T08:55:07-04:00

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Jealousy on Desiring God

Last updated on: October 2, 2014 at 8:55 am By Paul C. Maxwell

(Summary: Read my recent piece “Hey, Jealousy” on Desiring God) Once again, I am thankful for Desiring God‘s great willingness to help me think through different issues – hard issues. Emotional, circumstantial, life, and not-in-the-bible issues. That’s what I love about DG. They don’t back down from difficult topics. They also don’t back down from complexity. This is a rare, rare balance. So, it’s a privilege to write there. I’m playing catch-up, but after “Talking About Man-Boys,” the next article to be... Read more

Theology

2014-09-09T15:58:37-04:00

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Christian Blogs on Suffering

Last updated on: September 9, 2014 at 3:58 pm By Paul C. Maxwell

Many Christian blogs on suffering can be boiled down to a single phrase: “Jesus juke.” Oh, you’ve got a problem? Jesus. Worship him. Praise him. Trust him. Yet, in making this move, we empty the relevance of Jesus on the floor. We say, “This is the best Christianity has to offer. Nothing, essentially.” What is so tragic on both sides of the equation is that (1) There is so much more wisdom to be had in the Christian tradition than “trust... Read more

Theology

2014-08-28T14:57:53-04:00

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How to Let Jesus into Your Fantasy League

Last updated on: August 28, 2014 at 2:57 pm By Paul C. Maxwell

Have you accepted Jesus into your fantasy football league? Here's how. Read more

Theology

2014-08-16T16:14:56-04:00

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“Man-Boys” on Desiring God

Last updated on: August 16, 2014 at 4:14 pm By Paul C. Maxwell

I wanted my recent Desiring God Post “Talking About ‘Man-Boys'” to be the beginning of a new kind of conversation between men and women about male immaturity. It’s easy to pass the buck from gender to gender, playing hot potato with responsibility. I wanted to escape that cycle – that relational feedback loop. If men admit responsibility, then that means they have to face their fears and avoidances, which is obviously scary. If women stop attacking their male counterparts (i.e., “telling it... Read more

Theology

2014-07-30T10:40:35-04:00

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The Rustic Aesthetic on The Curator

Last updated on: July 30, 2014 at 10:40 am By Paul C. Maxwell

There is this really amazing web magazine called The Curator, a publication of International Arts Movement. It’s devoted to thinking through the intersection of art and faith. And I am all about intersections. It’s practically the only way to be original anymore. Anyway, they published a piece of mine called “Anxiety and the Rustic Aesthetic.” Everything I write, I try to write out of personal experience. Dating. Cynicism. Self-hatred. Anxiety, of course, is a universal human condition. But that’s not what’s personal to me... Read more

Theology

2014-07-28T09:12:22-04:00

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Self-Patience on Desiring God

Last updated on: July 28, 2014 at 9:12 am By Paul C. Maxwell

I have a new little piece on Desiring God, called “Autocorrect and Indwelling Sin.” It’s experimental in a couple of ways. (1) It’s kind of clickbait. I don’t like Christian blogging clickbait. I’m sick of it. This blog was hilarious. And so, I don’t like bringing two concepts together in a blog just for the sake of click-worthy novelty. But I saw a genuine common theme between the unfiltered and passionate animosity we pour out against our phones when things go wrong and... Read more

Biblical Counseling

2014-06-19T11:56:14-04:00

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Thomas Aquinas on Divine Simplicity

Last updated on: June 19, 2014 at 11:56 am By Paul C. Maxwell

Summary: Read my new article on Thomas Aquinas here. The Journal of the Evangelical Society has published a piece of mine on Thomistic simplicity. This article was produced out of a confusion in the conversation about God’s essence between competing models of God. Why do certain Christians locate simplicity as the lynchpin of orthodoxy? Historically and conceptually, it is bound up in Thomas’s amalgamation of Aristotle and Christian orthodoxy. I hope that readers will enjoy the article as a technical explanatory piece... Read more

2014-04-22T09:26:13-04:00

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Ben Dunson on Romans and Psychology

Last updated on: April 22, 2014 at 9:26 am By Paul C. Maxwell

*Short version: read my recent review here* Ben Dunson (Ph.D., University of Durham) offers the academy and the church an outstanding book on the Apostle Paul’s native psychology: Individual and Community in Paul’s Letter to the Romans WUNT 2, Reihe 332 (Mohr Siebeck, 2012). I think you should read everything you can from Dunson. The Westminster Theological Journal has posted a recent article of his online: “Do Bible Words Have Meaning? Distinguishing Between Imputation as Word and Doctrine” WTJ 75 (2013): 239-60. It is a breath... Read more

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2014-03-19T17:05:47-04:00

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Wright on the Psychology of Pauline Authorship

Last updated on: March 19, 2014 at 5:05 pm By Paul C. Maxwell

N.T. Wright suggests that behind Paul’s theology in Philemon, there lies a greater story of reconciled slaves – the exodus event. As an aside to this observation, he takes the opportunity to make an insightful hermeneutical comment about coordinating the context and the psychology of the human authors of Scripture. He argues that, in order to yield fruitful exegetical (and even systematic) results, we need to be willing to take interpretative risks with the author’s intention. He comments, “No doubt... Read more

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