Friday, February 26, 2010

All by God

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Justification by faith, then, is a death-and-resurrection experience. Three important theological comments on this contention must be stress...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Death equals life

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Justification “by faith ” is for Paul justification by co-crucifixion . Those described as “hav[ing] come to believe in [ eis ] Christ Jesus...

Where is God in all this

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is the question that Lawson has been asking this week here and here . He is looking at the destruction of Shiloh and wondering why it hap...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Gardening books

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Ever since the beginning of January, I have been checking books on gardening (and cheese making) out of the local library. I don't know ...
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More on co-crucifixion

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We come next to Paul's distinctive understanding of faith— pistis —as the human response to the gospel and the instrument of appropriati...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Co-crucifixion

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I want to suggest that for Paul there is one soteriological model: justification is by crucifixion, specifically co-crucifixion, understood...
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New books

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I just received a new book from Hendrickson Publishers, compliments of Bobby (thanks!). Vines Intertwined A History of Jews and Christian...
Monday, February 22, 2010

cheap grace

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There have always been legitimate theological arguments about justification, as well as less noble but understandable interconfessional squa...

Cheese update

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On Saturday morning, I made yogurt, as usual. But, I also started some colby; the process from start to the beginning of pressing took about...
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Today's thought

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We are all like caged wolves that may escape at any moment—Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics , III/4
Friday, February 19, 2010

Can you separate justification and sanctification?

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Our goal is to show the connection between justification, on the one hand, and co-crucifixion and co-resurrection on the other, arguing that...

Suicide bombings, U.S. style

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Jim West has a comment on the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin: ...amidst all our concern about attacks from Muslim ...

Books

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I saw this post today about books via Andy Unedited . Here's a snippet or two: I agree with the monk in Normandy who, in 1170, wrote ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Another new sale

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I just posted a new sale on the Eisenbrauns web site. Here's the scoop, from BookNews : BookNews from Eisenbrauns For the next 10 day...

More Kenosis

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The counterintuitive God revealed in Christ is kenotic and cruciform, the Eternal vulnerable and self-giving One, the God of power-in-weakne...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Kenosis

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Option two [of a translation of Phil 2:6] would be something like the following: Although Messiah Jesus was in the form of God, a status peo...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The work of the Holy Spirit

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Guy Muse just posted an old tract that you might find interesting. I'm not a big fan of tracts, but this one I liked—maybe because it i...

Imitation of Christ

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When Paul describes himself as an imitator of Christ and calls others to be imitators of him and thus of Christ (I Cor 11:1), he is speaking...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Inhabiting the Cruciform God

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Several—OK, I just checked and it was over 6 months ago!— Nick Norelli mentioned a book, calling it the most quotable book of the year. It ...

Eisenbrauns Valentine's day contest results

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The results of our third annual Valentine's day contest are in! Our judge and webmaster has made his final decisions; it's too late ...