"Our study has shown that the scriptural meaning of blessing and remembrance converge at the Last Supper and point forward to ongoing transformational encounters with God at the Feast. Such encounters include many specific blessings which can be summarized by the themes of freedom and formation... "Ultimately, the blessing of the Feast is encountering God
A week ago, Ken Ham, the voice of Answers in Genesis, participated in a broadcast debate with Bill Nye, a science popularizer. Without digressing extensively on a dialogue which broke no new ground, listeners would have seen the biological continuity versus discontinuity issue raised again. In this case, though, the issue was raised between the Christian
Just published in the Autumn 2013 edition of the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology (http://j.mp/SBET2013Autumn). The PDF of the article is at the "Publications" page on this blog here, and is available by gracious permission of SBET.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette continued reporting today about a police dog killed in the line of duty as he went forward on command into a dark basement to confront a knife wielding criminal. “The district judge who set a $1 million bond Monday for the man accused of killing a police dog last week said that he set the amount
I apologize for the delay. A combination of illness, pressing church matters, and technological difficulties has kept me from the blog in the last few weeks. Thank you for your patience. The next installment in the series of posts reviewing Fesko's book, Beyond Calvin, is coming soon, d.v.
Alan Jacobs, currently at Baylor University, was a long-time professor of English at Wheaton College. As someone with a professional interest in words and language, it is not surprising that he has given careful attention to technologies of knowledge. In 2011, he published, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a wise and
In this post we complete our review of this first essay in Fesko's Beyond Calvin by looking at the Conclusion (pp. 50-52). For the most part, I will take each of the sentences or points of the Conclusion under consideration seriatim, assessing each with a view to the question whether or not the author has demonstrated what he
On p. 46 of this essay, Fesko arrives at his main thesis which, as I have noted repeatedly, has the unfortunate distinction of demonstrating the equivalent of "there is a lot of water in the Pacific Ocean." I submit that Fesko's thesis that both Reformed and Lutheran theologians employed the language of causation is without
After Zanchi, Fesko turns to brief remarks on Trelcatius (d. 1607), Bucanus (d. 1603), Alsted (d. 1638), the Leiden Synopsis, Ames (d. 1633), Wollebius (d. 1629), Junius (d. 1602), and Polyander (d. 1646). (Before going any further, do read these authors if you ever have the opportunity. It's part of a sound and substantial education
There are a handful of anecdotes or canonical passages that get repeatedly invoked by critics and pundits writing about technology. My guess would be that Socrates’ critique of writing in Plato’s Phaedrus is the most common of these frequently cited vignettes. Among other things, Socrates worried about the effects of writing on memory. Contemporary critics