The Scriptorium Daily

Category: Theology

  • Whitefield & Wesley on Evangelism & Discipleship

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    Fred Sanders
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    George Whitefield and John Wesley, the two titans of the evangelical awakening of the eighteenth century, are not paired often enough. The people who write about them or quote them tend to be strongly attracted to one and averse to the other. As a result, most assessments of the two men have a tendency to…

  • Gratitude

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    Peter David Gross
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    Gratitude is free. That’s not because it doesn’t cost anything for us to become more grateful people. It does cost us. Nor because we can idly expect it to be handed around by everyone. We can’t (or shouldn’t). No, it’s free because it’s unnecessary. We can’t demand it of each other. It’s superfluous, extraneous, gracious.…

  • Appropriating Deep Things @ETS: Four Papers

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    Fred Sanders
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    Next week at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, four scholars will be presenting papers on my 2010 book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. By the way, the book is now only $2.99 on Kindle. I am just thrilled that the book has drawn the attention of four…

  • How to Give an ETS Conference Paper

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    Fred Sanders
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    The Evangelical Theological Society is having its annual meeting next week. As a veteran of a dozen ETS conferences and a bunch of other scholarly gatherings, I offer here a few tips about how to present a paper. I have heard, and I have delivered, some bad presentations, and have learned from trial and error.…

  • Experiencing the Trinity (with Wesley)

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Wesley only preached one sermon with the word “Trinity” in the title, but don’t let that fool you: he is a great guide to living out the mystery of evangelical trinitarianism. His approach to the Christian life is saturated with the insight that in everything we do, we are surrounded by the work and…

  • Californian Theology @ ETS

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    Fred Sanders
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    The new project called Theological Engagement with California Culture is moving out of the initial planning phase and onto the public stage this November. Since the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society is in California this year, we are holding our first major presentation in conjunction with ETS in San Francisco. You can read…

  • The Sermon on the Mount, According to Wesley

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Wesley is one of the great interpreters of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon plays a central role in Wesley’s own thought. In Wesley’s Standard Sermons, the series of sermons dedicated to expounding Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is the longest series of continuous discourses in the whole volume, running from Sermon #21…

  • Thomas Traherne: Educating the Whole Soul

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    Greg Peters
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    Thomas Traherne was born in England in 1637, educated at Oxford and ordained an Anglican priest. During his short life he served as a parish priest and as a private chaplain. He died in 1674 at only 37 years old. During his lifetime he published only one work, the Roman Forgeries but just after his…

  • A Wedding Homily for Brian and Katie

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    Greg Peters
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    I was privileged this past weekend to give the homily for the wedding of Brian and Katie Manchester. Perhaps it will be of interest to others too. *** Brian and Katie, this day has been a long time in coming. Your parents have been thinking about it for years, your friends have watched it develop…

  • Vatican II

    Vatican II

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (October 11) is the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. Vatican II meant a lot of things to Roman Catholics on the ground (from changes in practices of fasting, to rumors that everything was about to blow wide open), but here is a theological overview of this epochal Roman…

  • Time for Church: Jesus We Look to Thee

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    Fred Sanders
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    Charles Wesley’s hymn “Jesus, We Look to Thee,” a lyric meditation on assembling in Jesus’ name. Jesus, we look to Thee, Thy promised presence claim; Thou in the midst of us shall be, Assembled in Thy Name. Thy Name salvation is, Which here we come to prove; Thy Name is life, and health, and peace,…

  • "And Show Them to Thy Blood"

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    Fred Sanders
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    Psalm 68 is not just a run-of-the-mill imprecatory psalm. It combines “smite my enemy” prayers with the “God is a warrior” motif, and the result is a vision of God’s wrath and judgment that sounds more like Beowulf or Conan the Barbarian than any other part of the Bible. I say this advisedly, because back…