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Author: Fred Sanders

  • Theology Students, Get to LATC 2013

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    Theology students of all sorts, and especially those of you within driving range of southern California, it’s time to register for the first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference (Jan 17 & 18). It’s two days on the doctrine of christology from some of the top scholars in the field: Crisp, Hunsinger, Leithart, Sonderegger, Torrance. And…

  • "Theology Comes West"

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    The new issue of Biola Magazine has a sidebar article about the upcoming Los Angeles Theology Conference. In our conversation, the interviewer (Amber Amaya) picked up on the theme of the incongruity of combining “Los Angeles” and “theology.” She quotes me as saying that “everyone has been really positive and very polite, but there’s kind…

  • I'm Just Saying I've Never Seen Them Together

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    N.T. Wright totally looks like Leonard Maltin. I noticed this while watching some Disney cartoons after reading some New Testament theology.  That’s Wright on the bottom with the open hymnal just behind him. No, wait. Dang it, I did it again.

  • Free Stuff at Biola

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    The Winter 2013 issue of Biola Magazine is out (here for the website, here for the pdf), and its cover story is about the university’s new initiative to give away loads of educational content. Check out the Open Biola site to see how much they’ve managed to put online already: lectures, articles, and entire courses. I call Open…

  • Take a Class on Christology This January

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    This January, we’ll be having the first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, a two-day event which you could think of as an intensive class on christology. We’ve got five major theologians doing plenary sessions in the big room, and then talking things over at a final panel discussion (this panel is the part of the conference…

  • Christmas Playlist 2012

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    A Christmas tradition we have in the Sanders family is to make a new mix of music each year, to play in our own house and to give to friends. We’ve posted the playlists here at Scriptorium (see four mixes and four more from previous years). Here’s the 2012 collection: Folk Christmas Mix  We’re taking “folk” in…

  • Saying Stuff (about the Lord's Supper)

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    This is the Lord’s Supper meditation I gave at Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada on Dec 2, 2012. Sometimes people stand up in front of a group and just start saying stuff. They just have a microphone, and an audience, and some ideas in their head, and they start talking. And you don’t know if the…

  • 9 Papers on Christology: LATC 2013

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    I finally get to announce the papers that are going to be presented in the parallel sessions at the Los Angeles Theology Conference on January 17 and 18, 2013. We issued a call for papers and got dozens of proposals. We narrowed it all the way down to the nine papers that work best together,…

  • God's Conduct

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    Romans 12, at first glance, can seem like a sudden change of subject from the high theologizing of the first 11 chapters. As Paul turns from explaining the gospel, to exhorting his Roman readers, even his writing style shifts from longer sentences and complex arguments to brief commands in a more straightforward diction. But he…

  • Owl Land

    Owl Land

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    C.S. Lewis once wrote a poem with the title Impenitence. What did he refuse to repent of? Man-like beasts. Anthropomorphic animals, especially the homey civilized ones from Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame. Here are the first two stanzas of his poem: All the world’s wiseacres in arms against them Shan’t detach my heart for a…

  • Newman, Benedict, and Torrey

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    Over at the blog of the American Society of Church History, Torrey’s Dr. Greg Peters reflects on some lesser-known writings of John Henry Newman. Newman’s most famous book about learning was his Idea of a University, but he also explored the ideals of Benedictine monasticism as a model for meaningful education. Peters reports on some…

  • The Trinity in Gender Debates

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    Trinity and Gender Roles: A Nice and Hot Dispute The evangelical debate about gender roles may seem like an unlikely venue for hashing out trinitarian theology, but that is what has been going on in the last few years. Everybody knows that evangelical complementarians and evangelical egalitarians have competing views of the relationship between men…