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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New RBL review of Paul and the Resurrected Body
Reviews are starting to come in for Paul and the Resurrected Body: Social Identity and Ethical Practice (SBL Press). In particular, Chris...
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Paul and the Cultivation of Multi-Ethnic Churches
Paul's hope for future bodily resurrection functions to cultivate a shared identity among the recipients that is ethnically inclusive.
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Severed from Christ: Falling Away in 1 Corinthians 6
Can Christians lose their salvation? Here's why 1 Corinthians 6 indicates that they can.
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No Redemption without Resurrection
God Loses If there is no bodily resurrection, sin wins and God loses. God did not design human beings to die. All through scripture death...
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Heaven Is Not Enough
Dissatisfied with Heaven So what are they waiting for? To answer that question we need to look more closely at their appeal. Their...
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New Post: Resurrection Makes Us Holy (@OfficialSeedbed)
During my recent trip to Wilmore, Kentucky, I had the opportunity to film another episode for Seedbed‘s growing Seven Minute Seminary...
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The Resurrection and Christian Identity (@sowhat_podcast)
The newest episode of the SoWhat? Podcast aired earlier this week. This one is part 2 of a discussion about the resurrection of Jesus in...
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The Resurrection in the Creed, Part 1 @sowhat_podcast
The newest episode of the So What? Podcast went live today. This one is in two parts, and the topic is one of my favorites. That’s right:...
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Moltmann on the Immortal Soul vs. Bodily Resurrection
From The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology: The immortality of the soul is an opinion – the resurrection of the dead is a hope. The...
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Easter Means Mission
Our celebrations of Christ’s resurrection at Easter tend to be narrowly focused. The focus, all too often, drills down onto the...
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Here’s My New Seven Minute Seminary: Resurrection and the Christian Afterlife (@OfficialSeedbe
Here’s the latest installment of Seedbed’s Seven Minute Seminary series in which I discuss several questions related to life after death,...
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Athanasius on the Resurrection
Today is Easter Sunday. Where better to turn than On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius? This is one of those books that I keep coming...
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Resurrection is Everything (@OfficialSeedbed)
My latest guest post for Seedbed went live this morning. Here’s the intro: “Why celebrate Easter?” That’s an honest question that was put...
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Will God Destroy Our Bodies?
That’s what several standard Bible translations would have you think. The verse in question is 1 Corinthians 6:13a, and it turns out that...
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Review: Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction
The first two chapters introduce the reader to the various attitudes toward death and afterlife in the Old Testament and other ancient...
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The Dual Focus of the Resurrection
For Paul, the historicity of the resurrection of Christ and its “bodily” character are crucial. The historicity of the resurrection...
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Imagining Resurrection
These questions and more have abounded for centuries; indeed, such questions are anticipated by the scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 15:35,...
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Catching a Fresh Vision of Faith
Read the rest of this post offering four brief reflections on faith at Seedbed. _____ Image: Janaka Dharmasena/FreeDigitalPhotos.net...
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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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Incarnation and Incorruption
“Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death in...
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