Let the review begin! And let it begin with the easy stuff. I begin by looking over the blurbs, and those represented here include well-respected theologians — a respect well-deserved, I might add — but then there are some blurbs from some folks right off the emergent fruit farm. I conclude from all this that …
Taking the High Road, That’s Me
I just picked up the new book on justification by N.T. Wright, his response to John Piper’s book. A friend recommended that I review it now, before reading it, in order to remain fully objective. As tempting as that suggestion sounds, I will aim for higher, nobler book review, with actual citations and page numbers.
Time for a Reset
Christopher Dawson once said that the Christian church lives in the light of eternity, and can afford to be patient. In a nation filled with men and women pursuing the gods of envy, mammon, malice, bloodshed and theft, this is important for us to remember. They are all caught up in the tyranny of the …
Angels and Gods
Book 1/Chapter 14 Vain Discussion of Angels (section 4) 1. What is our one rule in discussions of angels, according to Calvin? 2. What is the content of such empty speculations? 3. What does the fellow called Dionysus contribute to our knowledge of angels? 4. What is a theologians task? Scriptural Discussion of Angels (section …
800 Billion Big Ones
So then, agreement appears to have been reached on the $800 billion 2009 Economic Illiteracy Advancement Act. In times to come, I will be writing in a bit more detail about economics, but let me say a little brief something now. In order to “invest” 800 billion into our troubled economy, the gummint must find …
Open Throttle Abortion Policies
I read about this choice one at BaylyBlog, and commend to you the observations made there. At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama said this: “There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know.” This is chutzpah on stilts and steroids. The fact that President Obama …
The Cow With Some Evangelistic Liturature
We arrived in Oxford yesterday, and appear to have brought some Idaho winter with us. It was snowing again here this morning, which is apparently somewhat remarkable here. And of course, whenever it snows in some remarkable fashion, in any kind of proximity to me, I rise to say a few words on the important …
Six Day Calvinism
Book 1/Chapter 14 Creation of the World and Man (section 1) 1. Should men try to “get behind” God’s act of creation? 2. Why did God give us an account of the creation? 3. Why did God tell us how old the world is? 4. Any other reason? 5. How old does Calvin believe the …
The Early Fathers and the Trinity
Book 1/Chapter 13 The Essence of God (section 25) 1. Is the essence of “Godness” shared by all three persons? 2. If the Father only is the essence of God, what does this do to the other two persons? The Subordination of Christ(section 26) 1. In what sense is the Son not subordinate to the …
Papers Please
Whenever I travel I am reminded of how clearly and inexorably we are losing our practical freedoms, under Democans and Republicrats both. Even though airplane travel is routine for millions of Americans (at any given moment, 60,000 citizens are in the air somewhere over our country), we, docile sheep all, put up with indignities that …