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5 Classes You Must Take at DTS
What’s a blog without an idiosyncratic count-down list? Oh well. Bearing in mind this is just one person’s perspective, I hope it will help someone with their future course selections. Good dollars deserve good teaching, and good teaching deserves good … Continue reading
The (Continued) Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
The scandal of the evangelical mind, as an influential book by Mark Noll pointed out, is that “there is not much of one.” Noll indeed got at a very real issue: many evangelicals (including famous pastors and influential seminary professors … Continue reading
More Mumford: “Babel”
In honor of Mumford & Sons winning the Grammy for “Best Album” last night for Babel (2012), I thought it might be worthwhile to consider the biblical allusions in the title track “Babel.” Babel is, in our English Bibles, the name for … Continue reading
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Should Christians Sell Everything?
Some popular-level Christian writers have recently argued that modern-day Christians should emulate the early church in selling all of their possessions and giving to the poor. This is based in part on their interpretation of the description of the nascent … Continue reading
Making Peace with the Bible
Ever been concerned about inconsistencies or discrepancies in the Bible? I’ve recently come across a memorable quotation from Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376-444). Interesting how he connects the ethic of the Sermon on the Mount to the hermeneutics of biblical … Continue reading
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Wirkungsgeschichte (3): Mumford & Sons!
One of my favorite bands is Mumford & Sons, the English folk rockers whose new album Babel (2012) has recently set sales records here in the US. As is well known, Mumford’s lyrics are filled with biblical allusions – nearly … Continue reading
Evaluating N. T. Wright
My master’s thesis, “History and the Victory of God: The Contribution of N. T. Wright to the Study of the Historical Jesus,” is finished. Over the course of the last year I’ve spent working on this, I’ve gotten to dig … Continue reading
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Are You God’s Money?
And have you wandered away from the treasury? Those are the questions Augustine wants us to think about in his reflections on Mark 12:13-17. Mark 12:13-17 and parallels record a controversy between Jesus and the Pharisees and Herodians, in which … Continue reading →