A Serious Challenge to the New Perspective on Paul
NPP advocates are facing a new and robust challenge from Lee Irons’ recent volume, The Righteousness of God: A Lexical Examination of the Covenant-Faithfulness Interpretation
One of the major flash points in this debate is the term “righteousness of God.” Paul uses this phrase in a number of places, but it takes center stage particularly in Romans. Indeed, one might suggest that the “righteousness of God” is the theme of the entire book: “For in it [the gospel] the righteousness... Continue Reading
Distraction, Busyness, Diversion (Pascal)
Surely Pascal is right. Busyness and distraction divert us from thinking deeply.
Since God has “put eternity into man’s heart” (Ecc. 3.11), people know there is such a thing as true joy and rest. But since humans are sinful and fallen (Rom. 3), we sinfully think we can find joy and rest in the diversions and distractions of this passing away world. In several different places of his... Continue Reading
Book Review: Shifting Patterns of Reformed Tradition
Reformed authors interacted with one another as they sought theological unity and consensus
“Campi is an internationally respected scholar who is published in English, French, Italian, and German. This volume makes his valuable research accessible to English students of historical theology.” Emidio Campi’s, Shifting Patterns of Reformed Tradition, Reformed Historical Theology vol. 27 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) is an outstanding collection of essays that illustrates unity... Continue Reading
Drunks and Pigs (Luther)
Sadly, some Calvinists think it’s cool to cuss and drink.
To be sure, cussing is neither calvinistic nor is it Christian. A person who really understands Calvinism will seek to keep his tongue from evil (1 Pet. 3:10). And though drinking alcohol is not a sin, 1) it isn’t something to brag about because it has to do with Christian liberty, and 2) drinking too... Continue Reading
Who Was Jesus? On Historical Inquiry
If a person is doing research on a historical person or event he needs to assemble the sources in a right, proper, and honest way.
The next time you read or hear a critic attacking the NT portrait of Christ by quoting other sources (like the ‘Gospel of Thomas’ or Q), remember that they have a certain bias and are not using the sources in a right, proper, or honest way. Don’t let the critics shake your confidence in Christ... Continue Reading
The Grand Design: A Review
It’s time to pay attention to what’s being taught in the name of complementarianism.
I believe that the view of complementarianism taught by Strachan and Peacock in The Grand Design is a dangerous distortion of Biblical truth. They start with a faulty and unorthodox understanding of the Trinity. They build on that foundation a narrow and unhelpfully limited view of the nature of men and women. They elevate their understanding of gender... Continue Reading
Book Review: Trouble I’ve Seen
Hart’s idea of isolating and dismantling overt racialism apart from a plan that includes nonwhite minorities as co-laborers in the multi-ethnic family of Christ is inadequate and destined to fail.
Throughout the book, Hart demonstrates in himself the inherent difficulty of negotiating the condemnation of white Christians for preserving a racialized culture while at the same time desiring to be acknowledged and addressed, racially. To be clear, if it’s wrong for white Christians to engage in racial preservation for divisiveness, it’s also wrong for non-whites... Continue Reading
Most Emphatically Not By Works
Nothing we do before we are converted, during our conversion, or after our conversion counts in our justification.
This isn’t just theological nitpicking. If we muddle this and put our works in the mix of justification, we are 1) saying grace is no longer grace, 2) declaring that Christ’s work isn’t perfectly sufficient, 3) denying clear NT teaching, 4) opening the door to pride, and 5) robbing the Christian’s assurance in Christ (among... Continue Reading
Challenging Darwin
These 40 books show a great intellectual ferment among critics of evolution
“WORLD normally reviews individual books rather than movements, but readers have sent letters asking for coverage of whole fields such as poverty-fighting, religious liberty, and others—and the most requests have been for an overall look at what’s going on in the creation/evolution battle.” Despite decades of urging, most Americans still do not believe Darwinist... Continue Reading
The Real John Knox
Dawson introduces us to Knox as a family man, a Christian brother, and a believer
“What a pleasure, then, to read Jane Dawson’s recent biography, simply titled John Knox, where we meet Knox the man. His life was a remarkable one by any account. He was the key figure not only in the Scottish Reformation, but also a major player in the Reformation in England and on the Continent.” If... Continue Reading
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