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I’m cleaning off my desk from another semester of teaching at Los Angeles Bible Training School (the best Bible Institute in Los Angeles), putting some books back on the shelf and returning others to the library. Here are some quick thoughts on the commentaries that proved most helpful to me this semester. Don’t confuse this…

Biola–An Inoculation Against Intellectual Engagement?

Apr 22, 2015

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in Education

In a recent book (following C.S. Lewis, we might call it the “Green Book”), the acknowledgments read as follows: “Ignoring the guidance of my fundamentalist Christian community by making Karl Barth the focus of my doctoral studies was one of the most pivotal decisions of my young adult life. After being inoculated to intellectual engagement…

Father & Son, with Verbs & Predicates

Apr 2, 2015

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WGT Shedd’s discussion of the Trinity in his Dogmatic Theology (Gomes edition, of course!) is vigorous and pointed. Shedd drops a few locutions odd and angular enough to blanch a scholastic. Try this one: “Divine nature energizes internally from eternity to eternity in two distinct manners….” But those are fairly rare, and are an acceptable byproduct…

Persons Human & Divine (Ussher)

Mar 30, 2015

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The discussion of personhood in James Ussher’s 1648 systematic theology (A Body of Divinity: The Sum and Substance of the Christian Religion) is brief, and interesting on several counts. Ussher divides the discussion into two parts: Persons in general, “and then what a Person in the Trinity is.” Along the way he picks up some…

The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant (Book Review)

Mar 28, 2015

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in Misc., Theology

Michael Gorman’s new book, “The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant: A (Not So) New Model of the Atonement,” is a big-picture account of the work of Christ as a covenantal reality. The movement begins with the biblical interweaving of (new) covenant language and accounts of Christ’s death and resurrection,…

HCG Moule’s Outlines: Christology (2)

Mar 12, 2015

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More good stuff from HCG Moule’s Outlines of Christian Doctrine. Moule read the 39 Articles as a straightforwardly Reformed document, and although he was calm and never feisty about his brand of Anglican Calvinism, it had solid edges. Here he is in his “why I am not an Arminian” mode, explaining what he found lacking…

Moule’s Outlines of Christian Doctrine (1)

Mar 11, 2015

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H.C.G. Moule (1841-1920) was a great expositor who served as bishop of Durham for 19 years. I would be hard pressed to name my favorite book from among the many that he wrote, but there’s something special about the brief systematic theology he published in 1889 (revised edition by Hodder and Stoughton, 1902). It began as…

Moral Beauty in the Pastoral Epistles

Mar 9, 2015

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Chapter 5 of Ceslaus Spicq’s 1963 The Trinity and our Moral Life is entitled “The Beauty of the Moral Life,” and in ten little pages it draws together not only some of the key ideas of the book but some of Spicq’s deep immersion in the peculiar vocabulary of the pastoral epistles. I don’t think…

Designing a Course on the Atonement

Mar 5, 2015

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There is more than one way to skin a cat (or so I’m told), and the same holds true for teaching a doctrine. This fall I am teaching a seminar on the doctrine of the Atonement, and I am working through different ways of approaching it. All methods presume extensive interaction with Scripture, but variously…

Wuthering Adoption: Emily Brontë, Christ’s Atonement and Adoption

Mar 4, 2015

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in Literature, Theology

The families in Wuthering Heights only recover from the adoption of Heathcliff when, like the Israelites after their refusal to enter the Promised Land, everyone of that generation was dead (Num. 14:20-23). But adoption is a beautiful representation of the work of Christ—or even better, it IS the work of Christ—that which God does in…

“These Things Presuppose the Eternity of the Son of God.” -Bengel

Jan 28, 2015

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