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Ussher’s Soteriology
A recent addition to Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Richard Snoddy’s Soteriology of James Ussher offers a detailed…
Not the Foundation
Jeremy Treat’s The Crucified King is a salutary attempt to heal the breach in biblical and systematic…
No Place To Hide
As legal affairs correspondent for the Nation, David Cole is no apologist for the NSA. But he…
The Cross in History
Theodore Jennings doesn’t think that traditional notions of atonement speak to the contemporary world. We are “no…
Piketty and the New Economy
Larry Summers has a fine review in Democracy of the hot new book by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the…
First Links — 5.14.14
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Double-Bind of Muslim Women’s Rights Rochelle Terman, the Feminist Wire What Marilynne…
Double Imputation
For some today, double imputation alone grounds the gospel. If Christ’s passive obedience (death on the cross)…
Holy War and Secularization
Philip Jenkins’s latest, The Great and Holy War, examines the religious dimensions of World War I. On all…
Creative Delay
It’s now possible to watch an entire season of a TV show in a couple of nights.…
Reconsecrating the Sanctuary
The day of atonement (or “day of coverings”) involved a re-investiture of the priest. At the beginning…
Spirit Realized By Matter
J.R. Illingworth explains in Divine Immanence that consciousness, mind, and the human spirit are realized only materially. He…
Serious Entertainment
D. Brent Laytham suggests that entertainment falls into the biblical category of a “power,” a good aspect…
Glory and Unity
Pastor Rich Bledsoe explores the connections of glory and unity at the Trinity House site.
Autonomy’s Triumph in Canada
The late Canadian philosopher, George Parkin Grant (1918-1988), argued that, while the American experiment south of the…
Goodnight, Blood Moon
Prominent pastor John Hagee’s “blood moon prophecy,” the claim that eclipses track with significant events in the…
