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The Undramatic Universe: Jason Bourne and God

After watching The Bourne Ultimatum again (this time with my wife), I am even more convinced and intrigued by Mere-O reader Nobody's analysis of it: But after

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Quotable: Michael Bird Edition

Michael Bird, the prolific NT scholar and one of two bloggers at Euangelion, points out that the disagreement about the so called "New Perspective on Paul" can be

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A question for discussion

Which is more important, to know reality or to know yourself? This distinction keeps coming up in the sources I have been reading (or listening to) and I'd

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What is the Good News?

I spent my morning with a wonderful friend (who is now also my boss) inviting some high school-aged young people to attend Wheatstone Academy this summer. Our "marketing

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The Analogy of Jesus: The Hypostatic Union of Scripture

Modern evangelicals have often formulated their doctrines of Scripture in dialogue with German higher criticism, which called into question the inerrancy of Scripture. As a result, evangelical views of Scripture

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The Inspired Word: Bavinck against the Historical Critics

Herman Bavinck (I have no idea how his last name is pronounced, but what fun it is to emphasize the final syllable!), along with Abraham Kuyper, was one of the

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Ordo Inspirat: Warfield on Inspiration

Doctrine, it seems, always moves into clarity under duress.  And just as the Christological heresies of the early Church forced the Church to articulate exactly what it thought abou t

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The Key to the Gospel of John: Final Installment

In my previous post on the Gospel of John, I suggested that John speaks to us through his Gospel as Jesus does to the people in the Gospel. "Greater

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The Community of the Word: Ecclesiology and the Perfection of God (Part Two)

In the first essay, I attempted to summarize John Webster's essay where he locates evangelical ecclesiology under the perfection of God. His moves, of course, raise questions about

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The Community of the Word: Ecclesiology and the Perfection of God (Part One)

As discussions about the nature of evangelicalism have been prevalent around Mere Orthodoxy in the last few years (see here, here, and here), I turned to The Community of the

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With Andrew Murray in Christ's School of Prayer

I recently began to read Andrew Murray's spiritual classic, With Christ in the School of Prayer. The missionary to Africa bids his fellow disciples in Christ to beg

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Evangelical Theologizing 2: The Trinity and Gender

One of the highlights of the Evangelical Theological Society meeting for me was seeing two of my intellectual heroes of Middlebrow fame, Dr. Fred Sanders and Dr. John Mark Reynolds,