The Scriptorium Daily

Month: February 2012

  • Sin Safari

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    Fred Sanders
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    A cartoon tour of the bestiary of sin, exploring the terrible fauna of hamartiology. In issue 4 of Dr. Doctrine’s Christian Comix (InterVarsity Press, 1999), I did my best Dr. Seuss imitation to explore the doctrine of sin. You may need to click through to a larger image to read the text well.

  • Biola's Founders (104th Birthday)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Last week Biola celebrated its 104th birthday, and I got to speak in the Founder’s Day chapel service about the three most important founders: Lyman Stewart, T.C. Horton, and R. A. Torrey. Thirty minutes is not enough time to do them justice! But the audience was good, and spirits were high, and I shared as…

  • 5 Things I Learned at Torrey From John Mark Reynolds

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    Peter David Gross
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    In the previous post, John Mark announced that he was leaving the honors program he founded to become the new head of academics at Houston Baptist University. He’s continuing, of course, to be an essential member of the team at Wheatstone Ministries through insight at board meetings, speeches at conferences and events, his kind and…

  • The Old Order Changes

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    John Mark Reynolds
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    Outside my family, Torrey Honors is the best thing to happen to me so far. The chance to start Torrey and work with the chums has been the greatest honor of my life. Jesus built Torrey and it was a miracle that I could be involved. I am so thankful to Biola University for taking…

  • Lent’s Road to Eternity

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    Robert Llizo
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    Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?—J.R.R. Tolkien, from his lecture titled “On Fairy Stories,” given in 1939. As a pre-adolescent kid growing up in…

  • Tom Smail (1928-2012): "The Spirit is Given from the Cross"

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    Fred Sanders
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    Tom Smail, evangelical and charismatic British theologian of the Trinity, died last week (Feb 15). A few obituaries have appeared from those who knew him or studied with him. I knew him only from his remarkable books, which were always exquisitely balanced between tradition and creativity. As something of an evangelical-charismatic statesman, Smail tended to…

  • Foreword to Harrower's Trinitarian Self and Salvation

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    Fred Sanders
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    Scott Harrower of the Melbourne School of Theology has just published a book called Trinitarian Self and Salvation: An Evangelical Engagement with Rahner’s Rule (Wipf & Stock, 2012). About a decade ago, I wrote my own “evangelical engagement with Rahner’s Rule,” so Scott asked me to write the foreword for his project. I really appreciated…

  • R. T. France (1938-2012), New Testament Scholar

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    Fred Sanders
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    Last week, R. T. France passed away. There are notices of his passing at several Bible blogs, including this one at the Evangelical Textual Criticism site. France taught in numerous places over the years, and wrote many helpful works. Evangelical Bible scholars can testify to his substantive contribution to the field. I want to praise…

  • Notes for a Doctrine of Creation

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    Fred Sanders
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    Just a few thoughts here, brief notes on how a doctrine of creation ought to be handled in systematic theology. I state them as theses, as if I am declaring how every theologian ought to handle the doctrine. But really I’m talking to myself in public. 1. Work backwards. The doctrine of creation occurs early…

  • The Economic Trinity Communicates the Immanent Trinity

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    Fred Sanders
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    When Kevin Vanhoozer intervenes in the recent discussion of the doctrine of God, he does so by making several strategic moves. But the move behind them all is his insistence that we’ve got to get the doctrine of the Trinity right. And “getting it right” means describing the relationship between the economic and immanent Trinity…

  • John Hick (1922-2012), Philosopher of Religion

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Hick, a major philosopher of religion, has died at age 90. Friends and students had just brought out a festschrift in his honor weeks before his death. Hick’s theological conclusions were decidedly on the liberal side of the spectrum, and his intellectual legacy will be the greatest among those who are least concerned about…

  • Sharing Our Solitude

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    Peter David Gross
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    A piece I wrote, “Sharing Our Solitude,” is one of January’s three main articles in The Examined Life.  The issue is all about ‘enduring through suffering,’ and, among others, it includes an article on interacting with suffering in a classroom setting, an apology for watching sad films, and an artistic and symbolic exploration of the color…