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September 2013

September 30, 2013

Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love

I forgot to make an actual, official announcement here at Scriptorium of the late-summer publication...

September 30, 2013

The Must-read Medieval Authors

This summer I was fortunate to have two chapters that I wrote published in an...

September 30, 2013

Call for Papers on Trinitarian Theology: LATC 2014

Coming up in January is the 2014 Los Angeles Theology Conference. Registration is open, and...

September 22, 2013

Enamel Trinitarianism

The church of St. Servatius in Siegburg, Germany has a treasure room full of medieval...

September 15, 2013

“The Nature of a Living Mirror” (Ebrard on First John)

Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard's 1860 Commentary on First John is a bit florid and romantic in...

September 14, 2013

Light from Light: The Trinity in First John (Sermon)

Here is a sermon I got to preach in chapel at Talbot School of Theology...

September 12, 2013

Imagination: Association of Form and Content

In April 2013 Biola held its third annual Imagination Summit. It was an in-house event...

September 11, 2013

Executive Summary (First John 1:1-5)

(This is the opening section from a sermon I preached on Sept. 10, 2013 in...

September 10, 2013

On the Road with the Noonday Demon

There’s a great deal of gold to be found in the writings of early Christian...

September 05, 2013

The Consummate Consumer (Gray Matters)

Brett McCracken's new book Gray Matters: Navigating the Space Between Legalism & Liberty is a vade...

September 03, 2013

Call for Papers: Los Angeles Theology Conference 2014, Advancing Trinitarian Theology

In mid-January of 2014, Fuller Theological Seminary will host the second annual Los Angeles Theology...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

Who Wants to Know? (The End of Our Exploring)

I'm so glad to see this new book by Matt Anderson: The End of Our...

August 20, 2013

Barth & the Bible in Yosemite

Last week my family got to spend a few days in Yosemite, artfully dodging the...

August 19, 2013

A Mind Curved in on Itself

“So, what are you working on?” she might ask. This is how these grad school...

August 08, 2013

How to Read John Wesley’s Sermons

John Wesley is an author we go out of our way to read In the...

August 06, 2013

“A Needed Doctrinal Synthesis”

The back pages of the June 2013 issue of JETS contain some very helpful book reviews. As...

July 2013

July 27, 2013

Théologal Existence Today

On page one of his 1996 book Christian Faith & the Theological Life, Dominican Romanus...

July 26, 2013

Endorsements for Wesley on the Christian Life

My new book, Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love (Crossway, 2013) is...

July 16, 2013

Spiders, Comics, and Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely recognized as the greatest theologian America has yet produced. He...

July 01, 2013

Charles Stang: Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite

Charles M. Stang, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: "No Longer I" (Oxford: OUP, 2012) (review copy...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

What God Says and Doesn’t Say

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) God has spoken so...

June 18, 2013

“Scripture is Wise Even In Its Silence”

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) God communicates. He speaks...

June 16, 2013

Psssst: Melchizedek!

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here.) The book of Hebrews...

June 15, 2013

God Swears He’s Telling the Truth

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here) Here’s our last baby...

June 14, 2013

The Trinity as Old Testament Book Club

(For the sermon that this is an excerpt from, go here) We can learn to...

June 12, 2013

Hearing God: Start by Overhearing

This is a section from a sermon I preached at my home church, Grace Evangelical Free...

June 10, 2013

Schleiermacher was Wrong

As I celebrated the graduation of the Torrey Honors Institute class of 2013, I took...

June 06, 2013

Eno Snaisehpe (Ephesians One Backwards)

What would it take to lose your salvation? Sometimes I think the fact that we...

June 05, 2013

Nomina Sacra as Theological Claim

In his remarkable book The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity, Kendall Soulen pays very...

June 04, 2013

The Four Causes of Boethius’ Book

In Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Boethius' De Trinitate, Thomas brings his favorite Aristotelian categories to...