It’s possible to get all sentimental and misty-eyed about suffering and forget the real pain, tragedy, and injustice involved. “The fact of suffering undoubtedly constitutes the greatest single challenge to the Christian faith,” John Stott
Austin Fischer narrates this journey—into and out of Calvinism—in his newly published book Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed. Fischer’s journey will engage readers of all theological persuasions, but it is his theological arguments for leaving Calvinism woven throughout his narration that will force readers to set the book down after each chapter and ponder the questions, “Who is God?” and “How do I know?”
No matter how much we believe the other’s position is wrong or just plain bad theology, it is not OK to attack one another. Nothing stands to undermine our mission more than this kind of bearing toward one another. So let us debate and write books and dig deeper into the truth as we understand it, but let us do so with the holy love of God for one another.
Are humans unique among all living things? Are we special? The two extremes here are fairly obvious, I suppose: Yes! Humans certainly are special; unique among all living creatures. Secular version: Rationalism, Enlightenment—humans’ superior wisdom.
Ignoring Genesis 9 in covenant theology is like ignoring John 1 in Jesus theology. Skipping God’s earth covenant in soteriology is like skipping the incarnation in Christology. Yet as I noted in my January 3
1. Interpret the gospel primarily through Romans. Biblical writers, including Paul, tell us to study the whole of Scripture and interpret it through that wholeness. But the persistent tendency to see Romans as the key
God’s exquisite and puzzling timing in his acts in history suggest his determination to work in harmony with those who are willing to work in harmony with him. A form of sovereign synergy.
The paperback edition of The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology has just been released by Oxford University Press (524 pp.). The original hardback was published in 2010. This is a marvelous book, and I am
I’m reading a remarkable little book, Images or Shadows of Divine Things, by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). It was edited by the noted Harvard historian Perry Miller, and was one of Miller’s earlier books (Yale University
For a radical gospel (the biblical kind) we need a radical church (the biblical kind). What would a denomination do that really wanted to become a church with New Testament dynamic? Let us suppose .
The rapid increase of those who identify as “young, restless, and Reformed” is bringing fresh attention to the doctrine of election, which is one of the definitive issues that marks the sides in the ongoing
My visits to Haiti (2009, pre-earthquake, and again this year) have prompted me to think more deeply about the relationship between the gospel and economics. Most of Haiti’s problems are economic. True also in many
