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  • Pictographic Catechism from the Andes

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    Fred Sanders
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    It’s not exactly a comic book, but there is an old catechism that certainly makes an interesting use of sequential images for the purposes of teaching Christian doctrine. The Huntington Free Library in the Bronx published a facsimile edition of a “pictographic Quechua catechism” that is a wonderful and engaging little booklet. Here is the page…

  • "Behold Your God!" LABTS Men's Conference Saturday

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    Fred Sanders
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    This Saturday there’s a great conference for men in Los Angeles. It’s organized by the Los Angeles Bible Training School, which I believe is the best Bible Institute in Los Angeles. The conference theme is “Behold Your God!” because all the teaching will be about the character and attributes of God.  Often, a conference for…

  • LATC 2014: Advancing Trinitarian Theology

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    Fred Sanders
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    The first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference was a big success, and now we are moving forward with plans for future LATC meetings. Here are our topics for the next four years: 2014: Trinity 2015: Atonement 2016: Pneumatology 2017: Dogmatics I’ll announce more details about each of those themes in due course. But we can…

  • Justification by Faith in Matthew (with an Assist from Hilary)

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    Fred Sanders
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    I recently described how I read the Gospel of Matthew looking for an understanding of salvation: by keeping Paul in the back of my mind, but not letting him get in the front of my mind. I wasn’t claiming to be original, just describing and recommending the kind of Bible reading that I think is…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Not Forsaken: McCall Responds

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    Fred Sanders
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    For the past week and a half, Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson have been discussing Thomas H. McCall’s new book Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters. See parts 1, 2, 3, & 4 if you missed our little cartoon theology-heads talking back and forth about this commendable book. As our discussion…

  • Does It Make a Difference? (Forsaken pt. 4)

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    Matt Jenson
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. In our final installment talking through Tom McCall’s Forsaken, we consider McCall’s fourth chapter and conclusion, in which he takes two looks at the question of “why it matters”. Jenson: Continuing on from the last post, where Fred pointed out…

  • Victory, not Tragedy (Forsaken pt 3)

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    Fred Sanders
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Further reflections on Tom McCall’s Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters, as Sanders and Jenson do a conversational review-but-not-a-review type blog thing. Our offices are right down the hall from each other, so you’d think…

  • Theology for the Great City: Los Angeles Theology Conference

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    Fred Sanders
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    I’ve lived in California for more than fifteen years now, working as a professional theologian and flying off every year to academic conferences here and there. But mostly there: we west coast theologians have to head east to tap into any significant academic theological culture. Much as I enjoy travelling, I have often wondered why…

  • Thousands of Pages of New Trinitarian Theology

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    Fred Sanders
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    There are always books about the Trinity coming out, because it’s a perennially important doctrine. All roads in Christian theology lead to it in one way or another, and from this doctrine you can get to any other doctrine without taking too many steps. But in any given year, the two or three new Trinity…