"Prior to the fall, the state of humanity and of the earth as a whole was a provisional one that could not remain as it was. It was such that it could be raised to a higher glory but in the event of human transgression could also be subjected to futility and decay" (Dogmatics …
F.F. Bruce and N.T. Wright on Paul’s Gospel
What is the heart of Paul's gospel, or good news? Wright: "If you start with the popular [i.e. Reformed/protestant!!] view of justification, you may actually lose sight of the heart of the Pauline gospel; whereas if you start with the Pauline gospel itself you will get justification in all its glory thrown in as well" …
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John’s Gospel, Trial, and Metaphor
Andrew T. Lincoln has written an excellent book on the Gospel of John. In this book, Truth on Trial, he explores a major theme in John, lawsuit. He also discusses many key discourses in John, as well as the OT/LXX background, namely Isaiah 40-55 and the cosmic trials that happen there. No doubt working off Ricoeur, he …
Luther, Suffering, and Cross
Recently, I was involved in consoling close friends as they faced the terrible suffering and death of their son. After Scripture, the first book I picked up was Forde's On Being a Theologian of the Cross (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997). In this book, the great Lutheran theologian Gerhard Forde discusses the Heidelberg …
Accounting for the Reality of Non-Physical Realities
Here's a great apologetics quote by Ken Samples who is on the adult education staff at Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim (URCNA), and whose latest book on worldviews (entitled A World of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test) is hot off the presses at Baker. Ahhhh, the transcendental argument hard at work! God …
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