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January 2013

January 09, 2013

Nathan Chapman Kouns, Author of Arius the Libyan

Arius the Libyan: An Idyll of the Early Church (NY: Appleton, 1884) was a work...

January 08, 2013

Intellectual Appetite: Studious or Curious?

Paul J. Griffith's 2009 book Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar is a fascinating work. I've...

January 08, 2013

From Nomos to Oikonomos

The vocabulary of Ephesians is is rich in "house" and "building" words. Most of them...

January 07, 2013

Arius the Libyan: Heretic as Hero

In 1884 the Appleton publishing company in New York released an anonymous novel with the...

January 03, 2013

Stewards of the Mysteries (Ordination Sermon)

(A sermon preached Sunday, Dec 30, 2012, at Tulare Evangelical Free Church, Tulare, California) We...

January 01, 2013

Theology Students, Get to LATC 2013

Theology students of all sorts, and especially those of you within driving range of southern...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

“Theology Comes West”

The new issue of Biola Magazine has a sidebar article about the upcoming Los Angeles...

December 27, 2012

I’m Just Saying I’ve Never Seen Them Together

N.T. Wright totally looks like Leonard Maltin. I noticed this while watching some Disney cartoons...

December 27, 2012

Free Stuff at Biola

The Winter 2013 issue of Biola Magazine is out (here for the website, here for the...

December 10, 2012

The Wily Work of the Gibeonites

Several years ago I preached a sermon on Joshua 9, a chapter my Bible titles,...

December 06, 2012

Take a Class on Christology This January

This January, we'll be having the first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, a two-day event which...

December 05, 2012

Christmas Playlist 2012

A Christmas tradition we have in the Sanders family is to make a new mix...

December 03, 2012

Saying Stuff (about the Lord’s Supper)

This is the Lord's Supper meditation I gave at Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada on...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

9 Papers on Christology: LATC 2013

I finally get to announce the papers that are going to be presented in the...

November 27, 2012

Giles of Viterbo: The Humanist Scholastic

The Commentary on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus, by Giles of Viterbo. Giles of...

November 26, 2012

The Difficulty of Ecumenism

Every Christian must be ecumenical. That is, every Christian must devote herself to the unity...

November 20, 2012

God’s Conduct

Romans 12, at first glance, can seem like a sudden change of subject from the...

November 11, 2012

Owl Land

C.S. Lewis once wrote a poem with the title Impenitence. What did he refuse to...

November 08, 2012

Newman, Benedict, and Torrey

Over at the blog of the American Society of Church History, Torrey's Dr. Greg Peters...

November 05, 2012

In Defense of Cinderella: The Dress

I have a near-three-year-old girl...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

The Trinity in Gender Debates

Trinity and Gender Roles: A Nice and Hot Dispute The evangelical debate about gender roles...

October 26, 2012

Not Forsaken: McCall Responds

For the past week and a half, Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson have been discussing...

October 25, 2012

General Honors 1920 and Torrey Honors 2012

In the Torrey Honors Institute we read Western classics; then we sit in a circle...

October 25, 2012

Does It Make a Difference? (Forsaken pt. 4)

In our final installment talking through Tom McCall's Forsaken (here are the other ones), we consider...

October 23, 2012

Reconnecting with the Christian Tradition

Dr. Peters recently did an interview for the Aqueduct Project on the nature of the...

October 23, 2012

Progress for the Sake of…

As I was driving around LA the other day listening to NPR, two stories run...

October 19, 2012

Victory, not Tragedy (Forsaken pt 3)

Further reflections on Tom McCall's Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters,...

October 17, 2012

Wrath of the Trinity (Forsaken pt. 2)

More discussion of Tom McCall's book Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it...

October 15, 2012

The Broken Trinity (Forsaken pt. 1)

Tom McCall's recent Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters (IVP, 2012--thanks...

October 09, 2012

Call for Papers: Christology at Los Angeles Theology Conference

This Friday October 12 is the deadline for submitting a paper proposal for the inaugural...