Archive for May 2012
Evangelical Free Will
In the recent issue of the Sixteenth Century Journal (XLIII, no. 1; Spring 2012), Credo blogger and executive editor Matthew Barrett contributed a book review of Evangelical Free Will: Philipp Melanchthon’s Journey on the Origins of Faith, by Gregory Graybill. Here is one of Barrett’s concluding paragraphs: Graybill’s treatment of Melanchthon is impressive not just for…
Read MoreD.A. Carson: “Jesus, the Son of God”
Recently D. A. Carson spoke at the fifth annual Gaffin Lecture on Theology, Culture, and Mission at Westminster Theological Seminary. His lecture is entitled, A Christological Title Often Overlooked, Sometimes Misconstrued, and Currently Disputed: Jesus, the Son of God. These are lectures in biblical or systematic theology, in honor of Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., professor of Biblical…
Read MoreConsternation over Ben Carson, Evolution, and Morality
By Richard Weikart– Yesterday, May 14th, almost 500 Emory University faculty and students expressed their dismay that their commencement speaker did not toe the ideological line when it came to evolutionary biology. Yes, gasp, the renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson does not believe in evolutionary theory. Not only that, but biology professors at Emory…
Read MoreTen Baptists Everyone Should Know: John Gill
By Steve Weaver— When John Gill (1697-1771) died he was widely recognized as the greatest Baptist theologian of the eighteenth century. While pastoring the same congregation for nearly fifty-two years, Gill more than earned the nickname, “Dr. Voluminous,” by publishing more than ten thousand pages during his lifetime! Gill holds the distinction of being the…
Read MoreWhat is the Bible all about?
By Fred Zaspel– photo source What is the Bible all about? What is its primary purpose in writing and its leading theme? We find the answer to our question when we examine the beginning and the end of Scripture. At the beginning God creates the world and all that is in it. We may be…
Read MoreNew Books You Should Know About
By Matthew Barrett– The Explicit Gospel. By Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson. Crossway, 2012. Chandler and Wilson have teamed up to write a book on the gospel directed at those who have been in church but have not been exposed to the gospel explicitly. Here is what Carson and Dever have to say about the…
Read MoreDeus Absconditus and Deus Incognito
By Matthew Claridge– photo source When the Roman general Pompey conquered Jerusalem in 63 BC, he entered the Holy of Holies expecting to find, if not a great deal of loot, at least a dazzling image of the deity worshiped there. He was astonished to find absolutely nothing at all, indeed, nothing but a bare…
Read MoreOn the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament
This is part 1 of a short series on the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament with Credo blogger (!) and New Testament scholar Ardel Caneday, Professor of New Testament Studies and Biblical Studies at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Why is the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament one of the…
Read MoreThe Name of Jesus is Food
By Luke Stamps— One of the caricatures of the Reformation doctrine of Sola Scriptura is that it entails a devaluing of tradition in favor of individualistic biblicism. But even a cursory reading of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion reveals the fact that the Genevan Reformer was heavily indebted to the great tradition of…
Read MoreComing soon! “Chosen by Grace”
[Cover photo: By Benson Kua]
Read MoreParade of Faith
[This review is from the March issue of Credo Magazine, “Make Disciples of All Nations.”] Tucker, Ruth A. Parade of Faith: A Biographical History of the Christian Church. Zondervan, 2011. Review by Aaron Menikoff Just go to your nearest bookstore—if there are, in fact, any standing shops near you—and you will quickly discover that history is not dead. Popular…
Read MoreTen Baptists Everyone Should Know: Benjamin Keach
By Steve Weaver— Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) has been identified by historian Michael Mullet “as the leading Baptist theologian of his era, similar in importance for his denomination as Richard Baxter was for the English Presbyterians, John Owen for the Congregationalists and Robert Barclay … for the Quakers.”[1] Keach’s theological pilgrimage took him from his baptism…
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