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May 2012

May 14, 2012

How to Teach Salvation: Three Mysteries

There are three great mysteries in Christian theology: the Trinity, the incarnation, and the atonement. These...

May 07, 2012

The Myth of Trinitarian Marginalization

It's a commonplace in contemporary theology to say that the doctrine of the Trinity was...

May 07, 2012

Proving the Resurrection

I’ll admit it. I’m skeptical about attempts to prove the existence of God or, indeed,...

April 2012

April 29, 2012

Catherine of Siena

Today (April 29) is the day Catherine of Siena died in 1380. Catherine was a...

April 27, 2012

Peter Böhler, who Witnessed to Wesley

Peter Böhler (b. 1712) died on this day (April 27) in 1775. Böhler was a...

April 26, 2012

Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation

Today (April 26) in 1518, Martin Luther engaged in a public debate now famous as...

April 26, 2012

Mapping Modern Theology

I'm glad to see that Baker Academic has released Kelly Kapic and Bruce McCormack's Mapping Modern...

April 25, 2012

Happy Birthday, Charles E. Fuller

Today (April 25) is the day when Charles E. Fuller was born in 1887. Fuller...

April 24, 2012

Ames’ Very Concise Theology

Puritan theologian William Ames (1576-1633) wrote the Medulla Theologiae, which is available in English as The...

April 23, 2012

Learning from William Ames

They called him by the Latin name Guilliamus Amesius, but if we talk about...

March 2012

March 07, 2012

Happy Birthday, Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889)

Today (March 7) is the birthday of Alfred Edersheim, the nineteenth-century Bible scholar who really...

March 06, 2012

Paul's Dramatic and Tragic List of Sins

In First Timothy 1:8-11, Paul gives a striking list of the kind of people that...

March 05, 2012

Lenten Asceticism

As most of you know, we are nearly two weeks into Lent, that forty day...

March 04, 2012

The Vision of the Bible Institute (Biola 1912)

In the summer of 1912, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles had been in business...

March 01, 2012

Three Kinds of Sin (Ask Dr. Doctrine)

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Sin Safari

A cartoon tour of the bestiary of sin, exploring the terrible fauna of hamartiology. In...

February 29, 2012

Biola’s Founders (104th Birthday)

Last week Biola celebrated its 104th birthday, and I got to speak in the Founder's...

February 26, 2012

Lent’s Road to Eternity

Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get...

February 22, 2012

Tom Smail (1928-2012): "The Spirit is Given from the Cross"

Tom Smail, evangelical and charismatic British theologian of the Trinity, died last week (Feb 15)....

February 14, 2012

Foreword to Harrower’s Trinitarian Self and Salvation

Scott Harrower of the Melbourne School of Theology has just published a book called Trinitarian...

February 14, 2012

R. T. France (1938-2012), New Testament Scholar

Last week, R. T. France passed away. There are notices of his passing at several...

February 14, 2012

Notes for a Doctrine of Creation

Just a few thoughts here, brief notes on how a doctrine of creation ought to...

February 13, 2012

The Economic Trinity Communicates the Immanent Trinity

When Kevin Vanhoozer intervenes in the recent discussion of the doctrine of God, he does...

February 13, 2012

John Hick (1922-2012), Philosopher of Religion

John Hick, a major philosopher of religion, has died at age 90. Friends and students...

February 08, 2012

Sharing Our Solitude

A piece I wrote, "Sharing Our Solitude," is one of January's three main articles in The...

February 06, 2012

Stick Figure Theology: Annie Vallotton

Imagine being an artist commissioned to illustrate the entire Bible. From the epic stories to...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

The Conversion of St. Paul

Christmas was exactly one month ago, and now, we celebrate another birth, or should I...

January 25, 2012

Not Your Old New Trinitarianism, A New New Trinitarianism

"Remythologizing" is a mouthful of a word, and it may scare people a few away...

January 20, 2012

Close Attention to How God Says What He Says

Vanhoozer says “My wager is that this brief detour into the dispute over the meaning...

January 20, 2012

Whatever God Makes Humans FLIRSH

Reading in modern liberal theology, you begin to notice some recurring themes. Especially when liberal...