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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Who Would I Have Dinner with Given the Chance?
My pastor wanted to make a point last night about how people would act if we were having the celebrity of their choice over for dinner but how in comparison we don’t treat God with the same enthusiasm or respect. … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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God is the Measure of All Things
In his recent World Upside Down Reading: Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) C. Kavin Rowe said: With few exceptions, New Testament scholars are not accustomed to reading Karl Barth for help with their historical … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
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On Calvinism
Marc Cortez asked why non-Calvinists hate Calvinism so much and it’s drawn a lot of discussion which has ended up where all conversations on the topic end up: in a debate about Calvinism and Arminianism. Here was my (one and … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
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Book Notice
Peter Leithart just announced his new book Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom (IVP Academic, 2010). I, for one, love anything that Leithart writes so I’ll be sure to pick this up. That’s it’s … Continue reading
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eScholarship@McGill
I was reading David Guretzki’s Karl Barth on the Filioque (Barth Studies; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009) and he mentioned that he wrote his dissertation in 2006 on the subject at McGill University. So naturally I went to see if McGill, … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Theology
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Tuesdays with Torrance: Praise for Torrance
Today’s post is a bit different from previous posts in that I won’t be quoting Torrance and opining about the quotation; rather I wanted to reproduce the opening paragraph of Paul Molnar’s recent volume Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the … Continue reading
Posted in Theology, Tuesdays with Torrance
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Are All Vivas Like This?
In a preface entitled “Gnostic Letters from Bilthoven” in Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica Collected Essays of Gilles Quispel (NHMS 55; ed. Johannes Van Oort; Leiden, Brill, 2008) April DeConick opens: Early in December 1993, Professor Gilles Quispel flew from the Netherlands … Continue reading
Posted in Random Thoughts
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Quote of the Day
Fish in The Rocker: Lucky charm. Some people carry a rabbit’s foot; I like to rock a pocket of puke. B”H
Posted in Humor, Movies, Quotes
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In the Mail
Andrew Rogers sent along a sampler of chapters from W. P. Campbell’s Turning Controversy Into Church Ministry: A Christ-Like Response to Homosexuality. For those interested these sample chapters can be read below. There will be a blog tour for the … Continue reading
Posted in Church Stuff, Theology
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LePort on Pacifism
I was just reading through the comments to one of Brian’s recent posts and he defined pacifism like this: Pacifism is not anti-violence for the sake of anti-violence (at least not for everyone) but rather the acknowledgment of God as … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Theology
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