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2013-01-10T23:50:20-07:00

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Arius the Libyan: Heretic as Hero

Last updated on: January 10, 2013 at 11:50 pm By Fred Sanders

In 1884 the Appleton publishing company in New York released an anonymous novel with the title Arius the Libyan. Its titular main character is the fourth-century arch-heretic Arius, who is cast as a moral example, a spiritual giant, and a tireless fighter for the simple gospel of the primitive church versus the sinister schemes of Constantine and the sophistry of Athanasius. The author of this novel was Nathan Chapman Kouns (1833-1890s), an opinionated Missouri lawyer and librarian with journalistic ambitions... Read more

Theology

2013-01-04T23:59:12-07:00

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Stewards of the Mysteries (Ordination Sermon)

Last updated on: January 4, 2013 at 11:59 pm By Fred Sanders

(A sermon preached Sunday, Dec 30, 2012, at Tulare Evangelical Free Church, Tulare, California) We are gathered today to ordain Dr. Jason Sexton to Christian ministry. What language shall we borrow to describe this Christian ministry? We could use the word pastor, of course, meaning shepherd. That is a very biblical image, drawing our attention first of all to the work of God (the Shepherd of Israel) and Christ (the Good Shepherd). But precisely by pointing so strongly to the... Read more

Theology

2013-01-01T22:30:47-07:00

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Theology Students, Get to LATC 2013

Last updated on: January 1, 2013 at 10:30 pm By Fred Sanders

Theology students of all sorts, and especially those of you within driving range of southern California, it’s time to register for the first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference (Jan 17 & 18). It’s two days on the doctrine of christology from some of the top scholars in the field: Crisp, Hunsinger, Leithart, Sonderegger, Torrance. And we’ve got nine good parallel papers from folks like Telford Work and Scott Swain. And never mind the presenters, just take a look around the... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:26:22-07:00

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“Theology Comes West”

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:26 am By Fred Sanders

The new issue of Biola Magazine has a sidebar article about the upcoming Los Angeles Theology Conference. In our conversation, the interviewer (Amber Amaya) picked up on the theme of the incongruity of combining “Los Angeles” and “theology.” She quotes me as saying that “everyone has been really positive and very polite, but there’s kind of this sense that L.A. is not really smart, as if we don’t have a cluster of world-class universities here. … We clearly do, and... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:26:23-07:00

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

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:26 am By Fred Sanders

N.T. Wright totally looks like Leonard Maltin. I noticed this while watching some Disney cartoons after reading some New Testament theology. That’s Wright on the bottom with the open hymnal just behind him. No, wait. Dang it, I did it again. Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:26:23-07:00

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Free Stuff at Biola

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:26 am By Fred Sanders

The Winter 2013 issue of Biola Magazine is out (here for the website, here for the pdf), and its cover story is about the university’s new initiative to give away loads of educational content. Check out the Open Biola site to see how much they’ve managed to put online already: lectures, articles, and entire courses. I call Open Biola a “new initiative,” but what’s new is just the university’s recent decision to use the web in a certain way, especially for distributing some... Read more

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Theology

2014-03-18T09:26:24-07:00

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The Wily Work of the Gibeonites

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:26 am By Joe Henderson

Several years ago I preached a sermon on Joshua 9, a chapter my Bible titles, “The Gibeonite Deception.” The story tells how the Israelites, fresh from their initial victories over the Canaanites at Jericho and Ai, were tricked into making covenant with the people from the city of Gibeon. The Gibeonites were Hivites (Josh 9:7), one of the Canaanite people groups God had singled out when he commanded the people of Israel, “You shall make no covenant with them” (Deut... Read more

Theology

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2014-03-18T09:26:24-07:00

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Take a Class on Christology This January

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:26 am By Fred Sanders

This January, we’ll be having the first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, a two-day event which you could think of as an intensive class on christology. We’ve got five major theologians doing plenary sessions in the big room, and then talking things over at a final panel discussion (this panel is the part of the conference that I’m most eagerly anticipating). And then there are electives: three different parallel sessions during which you can choose to hear 3 of the 9... Read more

Theology

2014-03-18T09:26:25-07:00

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Christmas Playlist 2012

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:26 am By Fred Sanders

A Christmas tradition we have in the Sanders family is to make a new mix of music each year, to play in our own house and to give to friends. We’ve posted the playlists here at Scriptorium (see four mixes and four more from previous years). Here’s the 2012 collection: Folk Christmas Mix We’re taking “folk” in a very wide sense, but we wanted a core of early American music, with a chance to reach back into the popular music of the... Read more

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2014-03-18T09:26:25-07:00

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Saying Stuff (about the Lord’s Supper)

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 9:26 am By Fred Sanders

This is the Lord’s Supper meditation I gave at Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada on Dec 2, 2012. Sometimes people stand up in front of a group and just start saying stuff. They just have a microphone, and an audience, and some ideas in their head, and they start talking. And you don’t know if the stuff they’re saying is accurate, or if they’re going to do anything about what they say, or if it has anything to do with what’s... Read more

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