Are you an "almost" Christian? John Wesley's crucial question
Are you an almost Christian? What exactly is an almost Christian? How is an almost Christian different from an altogether Christian?...
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3 Books to Understand Revelation
Revelation is the hardest book in the New Testament. With all the numbers, symbols, and images, it’s intimidating (and even scary!) to...
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Objectivity Redivivus? Holloway vs. N.T. Wright
If you live in the world of biblioblogs, you’ve heard about Paul Holloway’s criticism of N.T. Wright and (Holloway’s own) Sewanee, the...
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Connecting the Pauline Dots: Not Whether but What Sort of Imputation? #PFG
The following is from David I. Starling and seems to me remarkably clear and thoroughly Pauline: At this point in the discussion, the...
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Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Your sweetest notes employ The Paschal victory to hymn In strains of holy joy. How Judah’s Lion burst his...
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A Meditation for Holy Saturday
Here’s the opening chorus from N.T. Wright’s Easter Oratorio, a meditation of hope for this Holy Saturday. On the seventh day God rested...
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Easter Hymn
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Your sweetest notes employ The Paschal victory to hymn In strains of holy joy. How Judah’s Lion burst his...
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Judas: Friend of Jesus?
Well-known preacher and teacher Thomas G. Long suggests that Jesus is speaking ironically and argues that “friend”, in the Gospel of...
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Purgatory Now?
In fact, Paul makes it clear here (Rom 8) and elsewhere that it’s the present life that is meant to function as purgatory. The sufferings...
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St. Andrews on the Rise in New Testament Studies
With the recent addition of N.T. Wright to their faculty and now Hafemann, St. Andrews is quickly becoming a top-notch place to study the...
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An Easter Hymn by N.T. Wright
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Your sweetest notes employ The Paschal victory to hymn In strains of holy joy. How Judah’s Lion burst his...
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A Meditation for Holy Saturday by N.T. Wright
I mentioned in yesterday’s post that N.T. Wright is a prolific writer of books. It turns out that he is something of a poet as well....
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N.T. Wright on Biblical Universalism
The article is called Towards a Biblical View of Universalism, and Wright’s aim is twofold. He intends first to dismantle universalistic...
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Through Faith & to Faith: Pistis Christou & Redundancy in Romans 3:22?
Readers familiar with the field of Pauline studies will know that the Greek phrase pistis Christou has been hotly contested. Throughout...
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What About Imputation? More on N.T. Wright at ETS
In a recent post, I said that N.T. Wright’s presentation at ETS surprised me with regard to two areas: his clarification regarding final...
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The Role of Works: Further Reflection on N.T. Wright at ETS
As indicated previously, I was quite pleased with Wright’s statement that he affirmed the language of final justification “according to...
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Belated ETS & SBL Reflections
I’m a bit behind most in the blogosphere who have already posted reflections on the recent annual gatherings of the Evangelical...
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N. T. Wright Returning to Academic Life
The news this morning is that the very well-known and distinguished Anglican Bishop of Durham, N. T. Wright, is retiring from his...
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PTR Review of Surprised by Hope
My review of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (HarperOne, 2008) in...
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N.T. Wright Visits Asbury
Grace and peace, Matt #Asbury #NTWright
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Colluding With Death
In his recent debate with Alister McGrath, Christopher Hitchens lumped Christianity in with other religions as seeing death as the way...
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