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Category: Theology

  • Arius the Libyan: Heretic as Hero

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    Fred Sanders
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    In 1884 the Appleton publishing company in New York released an anonymous novel with the title Arius the Libyan.  Its titular main character is the fourth-century arch-heretic Arius, who is cast as a moral example, a spiritual giant, and a tireless fighter for the simple gospel of the primitive church versus the sinister schemes of…

  • Stewards of the Mysteries (Ordination Sermon)

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    Fred Sanders
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    (A sermon preached Sunday, Dec 30, 2012, at Tulare Evangelical Free Church, Tulare, California) We are gathered today to ordain Dr. Jason Sexton to Christian ministry. What language shall we borrow to describe this Christian ministry? We could use the word pastor, of course, meaning shepherd. That is a very biblical image, drawing our attention…

  • Theology Students, Get to LATC 2013

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    Fred Sanders
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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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    Fred Sanders
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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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    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…

  • 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…