Archive for October 2011
The Living Word
In case you were not with us last week, you will not want to miss the October issue of Credo Magazine, “The Living Word.” [issuu width=420 height=231 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=111004125903-7a9245a15ca1450ba2e83e5f97a58fd5 name=the_living_word-oct_2011 username=credomagazine tag=evangelicals unit=px id=a9f431c1-edfa-8fbd-5a02-49600bf61ac9 v=2] To view the publication click here The October issue, “The Living Word,” is now available! Is Scripture inspired by God…
Read MoreThomas Schreiner reviews “Justification: Five Views”
Justification: Five Views. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2011. Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy. With contributions by Michael S. Horton, Michael F. Bird, James D. G. Dunn, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Gerald O’Collins S.J. and Oliver P. Rafferty. (Intervarsity Press). With the rise of the ecumenical movement and the new perspective on Paul…
Read MoreThis Week’s Winner is…
Scott, at Smacd1978@yahoo.com, you are this week’s winner! You have won: Perspectives on the Sabbath: Four Views. Contributors include: Christopher John Donato, Charles P. Arand, Craig L. Blomberg and Skip MacCart. Moral Apologetics for Contemporary Christians: Pushing Back Against Cultural and Religious Critics. By Mark Coppenger. The World and the Word: An Introduction…
Read MoreInspiration, Inerrancy, and the Trustworthiness of God
By Matthew Barrett “The notion of an inerrant text is inappropriately idolatrous.” Such a provocative statement comes from John Polkinghorne in his recent book, Testing Scripture. I don’t know about you, but I never considered evangelicals to be either inappropriate or idolatrous when it comes to affirming inerrancy. But nonetheless, this is the charge leveled…
Read MoreFred Zaspel Reviews Christian Smith’s “The Bible Made Impossible”
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture. By Christian Smith. Brazos Press, 2011. Review by Fred Zaspel Many Christians have puzzled over the fact that interpretations of Scripture differ so widely among equally devoted Christians, but few have pursued the question with the tenacity of Christian Smith in…
Read MoreOnly Two More Days for this Week’s Book Giveaway!
Only two more days for this week’s book giveaway! To find out what three B&H books we are giving away and to enter to win go here.
Read MoreToday’s Battle for the Bible: The Enns-Beale Debate
By Robert Saucy For some sixteen centuries the church believed (with few exceptions) that the Bible was the inspired Word of God—not simply the “witness” to God’s Word, or the Word of God in its “theological truth,” but totally God’s Word in all matters that it affirmed. They recognized, of course, that God didn’t write…
Read MoreThe First Issue of Credo Magazine is Now Here!
The Living Word – October 2011 [issuu width=420 height=231 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=111004125903-7a9245a15ca1450ba2e83e5f97a58fd5 name=the_living_word-oct_2011 username=credomagazine tag=evangelicals unit=px id=a9f431c1-edfa-8fbd-5a02-49600bf61ac9 v=2] To view the publication click here The October issue, “The Living Word,” is now available! Is Scripture inspired by God or is it merely the work of man? Peter writes, “For no prophecy was ever produced by the…
Read MoreWhat is Revival? Two Options
By Nathan A. Finn Most evangelical Christians are in favor of revival. This is in part because of the many ways evangelicals in the English-speaking world have been shaped (for better and worse) by the history and theology of spiritual awakenings. Nevertheless, despite a generally pro-revival posture, it seems to me that evangelicals don’t agree…
Read More“The Books of the Platonists”
By Paul Helm Book VII of the Confessions recounts how Augustine was leant certain books of the platonists i.e. of the Neoplatonists (such as Plotinus), and the impact they had on his search for the way to think of the immutability of God. What the books of the Platonists were to provide Augustine with, among other things,…
Read MoreThis Week’s Book Package Giveaway: B&H Academic
The first issue of Credo Magazine, “The Living Word,” will release sometime this week, featuring articles and interviews with theologians like Timothy George, John Frame, Bruce Ware, Gregg Allison, Robert Saucy, Owen Strachan, Fred Zaspel, Tim Challies, Matthew Barrett, Tony Merida, Michael A.G. Haykin, Thomas Schreiner, and many others. View the Table of Contents here. …
Read MoreGospel Wakefulness -Reviewed by Trevin Wax
On Credo’s “Reviews and Interviews” page, author and blogger Trevin Wax has written an insightful review of Jared Wilson’s new book Gospel Wakefulness. Jared Wilson’s new book Gospel Wakefulness made me think. In a good way. In the “thinking that leads to worship” kind of way. That’s why, despite a couple of concerns, I endorsed Gospel Wakefulness and I…
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