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  • Readings in Luther and Calvin

    Readings in Luther and Calvin

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    October 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation’s symbolic beginning: Luther’s posting of his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg castle church. To celebrate, three Torrey theologians are co-teaching an upper-division elective seminar on the Reformation. Matt Jenson, Greg Peters and I have gathered a group of students and we will spend…

  • The Distinct God of the Book of Job

    The Distinct God of the Book of Job

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    Robert Sokolowski has said that The Christian God is presented as being so transcendent to the world that he could be, in undiminished goodness and greatness, even if the world were not. The Christian God can be distinguished from the world in this radical way. … In contrast, the gods of pagan religion and the…

  • When Bad Books do Good Things

    When Bad Books do Good Things

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    Fred Sanders
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    It was while he was a student at Yale that R.A. Torrey (1856-1928) became a Christian. He describes it as a time when he was “leading a very reckless life” which involved, among other things, drinking heavily as a seventeen-year-old college kid. By his own testimony, he was driven to the brink of suicide, and…

  • Eusebius on Christ: “The Great Martyr”

    Eusebius on Christ: “The Great Martyr”

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    Adam Johnson
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    Martyrdom Martyrdom is a matter of finding oneself caught between an absolute and unyielding monotheism on the one hand (15, 39, 100), and an absolute and demonic claim to the contrary on the other. It is where we find ourselves forced to confess God at pain of death, or reject God to embrace a life…

  • Authority in Mentoring

    Authority in Mentoring

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    A concerned student recently asked me to use my authority over a friend of theirs (also a student and mentee of mine) to help get them on the right track, for this friend was involved in quite destructive behavior. As we were talking, I was growing increasingly uncomfortable, but when this request finally emerged, something…

  • Friends with Aristotle and Each Other

    Friends with Aristotle and Each Other

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    Fred Sanders
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    Here’s an episode of The Common Room, the periodic vidcast of the Torrey Honors Institute, made possible by OpenBiola. What we try to capture and share in Common Room conversations is a little bit of the ongoing dialogue that makes up the daily life of Torrey. Usually we do that by gathering a few tutors…

  • Doctrine Leaping Out of Its Chains: Review of Young’s “Construing the Cross”

    Doctrine Leaping Out of Its Chains: Review of Young’s “Construing the Cross”

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    Adam Johnson
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    Young, Frances M. Construing the Cross: Type, Sign, Symbol, Word, Action. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2015. Frances M. Young’s Construing the Cross is no mere exercise by a young scholar with an idea, research leave and a bibliography. Rather, this is the product of a mature and measured lifetime of study, a small window looking…

  • Love the Perpetrator as the Survivor? Correspondence with a Friend about Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself

    Love the Perpetrator as the Survivor? Correspondence with a Friend about Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself

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    Adam Johnson
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    A friend and I had a conversation about a situation of systemic and personal abuse she was suffering, which turned into correspondence between us. With permission, I have polished up my exchange with Lori (a pseudonym), as a reflection on what it means for a victim to properly love a perpetrator—a excruciatingly difficult challenge. Lori:…

  • Silent No More: CS Lewis’ Cosmological Theory of the Atonement

    Silent No More: CS Lewis’ Cosmological Theory of the Atonement

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    Adam Johnson
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    According to C.S. Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy, our home is “Thulcandra—the silent planet,” for “it alone is outside the heaven, and no message comes from it.” That is to say, no message came from our planet, until Ransom was kidnapped, and brought to Malacandra (or Mars). At a certain point in the story, Ransom learns that Oyarsa,…

  • The Hunting Grounds

    The Hunting Grounds

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    A recent documentary, The Hunting Ground, explores the tragedy of sexual assault on university and college campuses across the nation. Directed by Oscar-nominated Kirby Dick, maker of The Invisible War, which discusses the epidemic of rape within the military, The Hunting Ground serves as Dick’s startling follow-up into the world of sexual assault. The problem…

  • Black Lives Matter at Biola, 1957

    Black Lives Matter at Biola, 1957

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    Fred Sanders
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    I recently learned that the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, through its monthly magazine The King’s Business, took a stand against racial segregation in 1957. This 1957 broadcasting of Biola’s institutional position was neither so early as to be cutting-edge, nor so late as to be irrelevant. Here’s the story. Biola’s magazine stated its view publicly…