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First Links—10.30.14
Speed Kills Mark C. Taylor, The Chronicle of Higher Education Inside Twitter’s Ambitious Plan to Kill the…
Francis and Science
With all the pomp of an intrepid investigative reporter who has uncovered the next Watergate, Jerry Coyne announces that…
When Faith Comes
Douglas Campbell argues convincingly that pistis in Galatians 3 has a christological sense (Deliverance of God, 867-75).…
Prayer Army
In the first phase of the sixth trumpet, a voice instructs the trumpet angel to release the…
Old Marcionism Writ Large?
More than one scholar has asked whether the new “apocalyptic” Paul is a Marcionite Paul. Douglas Moo…
Misreading Scripture Alone
A new survey on American Evangelical beliefs reports grim news, according to an article published yesterday by…
First Links—10.29.14
Between Magisterium and Magistrate: Notre Dame’s Choice on Marriage’s Meaning Michael Bradley, The Public Discourse ISIS’s War…
Aqedah and Atonement
Douglas Campbell (Deliverance of God, 640-656) solves a number of issues at a stroke with his complex,…
Circumcision and Promise
Douglas Campbell suggests (Deliverance of God, 739-40) that Genesis 17:5 creates a problem for Paul. There, God…
Righteousness in Person
Douglas Campbell (Deliverance of God, 749) convincingly suggests that the promise to Abraham is specifically embodied in…
Climbing the Altar
When John first enters heaven, no altar is visible. He sees an altar for the first time…
The Coming Methodist Revival?
These days, when outsiders consider Methodism, they tend to quickly assume that it is just withering away…
First Links – 10.28.14
How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times Look…
Ingratitude and Justice
Polybius wrote, “when a man who has been helped when in danger by another does not show gratitude…
Promiscuous Disgust
Richard Beck points out in Unclean that disgust is “promiscuous”: It “has a degree of plasticity; it is molded…
