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  • 9 Papers on Locating Atonement for Los Angeles Theology Conference 2015

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    Fred Sanders
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    Locating Atonement, the 2015 Los Angeles Theology Conference, will be held January 15-16 on the campus of Biola University. Convinced that “theories and models” is a tired way of talking about the theology of the atonement, a trope with some limited pedagogical usefulness but not much prospect, we have designed LATC 2015 to do something…

  • Happy Birthday, Cyrus Scofield

    Happy Birthday, Cyrus Scofield

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    Fred Sanders
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    Cyrus Ingerson Scofield was born this day (August 19) in 1843, and died in 1921. A confederate veteran, Scofield had a shameful life (alcoholism, prison for forgery, divorce, etc.) before his conversion and call to pastoral ministry. His fame is linked to his 1909 Reference Bible, the resource that put the first draft of dispensational…