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

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    Fred Sanders
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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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    Fred Sanders
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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…

  • The Wily Work of the Gibeonites

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    Joe Henderson
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    Several years ago I preached a sermon on Joshua 9, a chapter my Bible titles, “The Gibeonite Deception.” The story tells how the Israelites, fresh from their initial victories over the Canaanites at Jericho and Ai, were tricked into making covenant with the people from the city of Gibeon. The Gibeonites were Hivites (Josh 9:7),…

  • Take a Class on Christology This January

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    Fred Sanders
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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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    Fred Sanders
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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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    Fred Sanders
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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…

  • Doing Theology with Monteverdi

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    Greg Peters
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    Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer whose music, both secular and sacred, was influential in the transition from Renaissance forms of music to the Baroque period. He is well known for his use and development of two different styles of composition: Renaissance polyphony and the Baroque basso continuo technique (i.e., musical parts that provide…

  • 9 Papers on Christology: LATC 2013

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    Fred Sanders
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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,…

  • Giles of Viterbo: The Humanist Scholastic

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    Robert Llizo
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    The Commentary on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus, by Giles of Viterbo.   Giles of Viterbo (1469-1532) was the most active and creative theologians who tried to bring together two worlds: the Renaissance and its call to return to the sources of classical antiquity, and the medieval scholastic tradition. Nothing brings out this creative syncretic…

  • The Difficulty of Ecumenism

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    Matt Jenson
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    Every Christian must be ecumenical. That is, every Christian must devote herself to the unity of Christ’s church–a unity that witnesses in the world to the love of the Father for the Son and to their love for those sealed by the Spirit of adoption. Ecumenism is part and parcel of the church’s mission, and…

  • God's Conduct

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    Fred Sanders
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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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    Fred Sanders
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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…