Let us conclude with an introduction. Let us finish up Christology with an approach to Christology. If Christ is a particular man, and He is also the universal man, then it follows that we have to know how to keep it simple and how, at the same time, to prevent it from being the wrong …
Chesterton Himself
Chesterton once said, speaking of those who accommodate themselves to the trend of the times, that “at its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there.” It is not that hard to spook a herd. The trend is that things are trending. The buffalo …
Second Temple Piracy
N.T. Wright takes the famous “den of robbers” statement made by Jesus in the cleansing of the Temple as referring to revolutionaries, which the word lestes can mean. But Peter Leithart, citing Nicholas Perrin, takes it in the more straightforward sense of “thieves.” Here are a couple reasons why Leithart’s reading is much to be …
More to Theology Than Admiring the Cape
I have made a great theological discovery. It’s a really hot one, worthy, it seems to me, of an honorary Th.D. or something like that. We have many worthy seminaries in a position to grant this honor, and so once I have published it here in just a few minutes, I will wait a couple …
The TSA of the Reformed World
Justin Taylor posts a helpful summary by Andrew Cowan of the N.T. Wright word-flurry at ETS this year. You can read about that here. This seems a quite reasonable summary to me, and it means that Wright is not a stalking horse for some kind of Romanist self-righteousness. But this means, in its turn, that …
Ecumenical Polemics
This morning Trinity Reformed Church and Christ Church held a joint service, which we do every year on Reformation Sunday. Peter Leithart preached from Galatians 2 and 3, on Trinitarian justification, and while he was preaching, several of the premises he laid out on the way to his conclusion had an additional benefit of helping …
Very Little Stones
So I have said more than once that secularism is on its last legs. Where do I get off saying that? Why that pronouncement? There are a number of ways this argument can be made, but allow me to point to just a couple. These indicators are not my own private claim to be able …
Uber-Post of All Time
As I have been playing around with this new website, fooling about with techie analyses and such, I am reminded of an experience I had once in the Navy. I was on the USS Tusk, a vintage diesel submarine, and we were headed over to the Med. We were making that transit on the surface …
Splashed Around in the Village Pond for a Bit
In an earlier post, I wrote about American exceptionalism with something less than enthusiasm. But this kind of point, however simple it is at the center, still needs to be nuanced around the edges. Some of this is a summary of what I have written elsewhere, so bear with me and here goes anyway. American …
A Really Little Cabinet
Burk Parsons is the editor of Tabletalk, and he wrote a very brief introduction explaining why the magazine was tackling the subject of N.T. Wright at all. In that intro, he included a quote from John Piper designed to put all the critical assessment in context. That comment is worth quoting in full. “Nicholas Thomas …