Earlier this week, the Gospel Coalition blog featured a post on the Incarnation and God’s immutability, which caught my attention. An individual asked, How do we hold together the idea that God doesn’t change with what happened at the incarnation and resurrection—where Jesus was united to a human nature and took on an earthly body and […]
Theology
Carl Trueman, Hero Worship, and God’s Gifts
Carl Trueman wrote several provocative posts critiquing conservative evangelicalism in America and its purportedly unhealthy promotion of its prominent preachers and teachers—particularly as it relates to conferences like The Gospel Coalition. Here they are: Home Thoughts from Abroad What hath Jerusalem to do with Hollywood? Thoughts on Marketing and Conferences Not guilty! The Lady Doth Protest Too […]
How Do the Father, Son, and Spirit Differ?
In recent debates about the Trinity—particularly the ones that stem from the gender debate—the question of the differences among the persons of the Trinity comes to the forefront. How do the Father, Son, and Spirit differ from each other? John Brown of Haddington answers this way:1 By their names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Mt […]
What Is the Most Convincing Proof of the Deity of Christ?
My immediate response would probably be God’s special revelation in His authoritative and inerrant Word. Here’s what B. B. Warfield had to say in “The Deity of Christ”: The Scriptures give us evidence enough, then, that Christ is God. But the Scriptures are far from giving us all the evidence we have. There is, for example, […]
What Is the Gospel?
Here’s a helpful new video from Knox Theological Seminary featuring Tullian Tchividjian and Warren Gage on how they’ve come to understand what the gospel is and how it relates to the everyday experience of Christians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S3YFcTaNjQ HT: Kendell Stellfox
Announcing the Best Book of 2011
I haven’t gotten my copy of The Christian Faith yet, but I’m pretty confident that it’s great based on the feedback it’s getting. However, it seems a tad premature to announce it as the best book of 2011 not even two months into the year, does it not? It’s kind of like announcing the winner of […]
Michael Horton’s New Systematic Theology
Michael Horton’s long-awaited systematic theology, The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way (Amazon | WTS Books), is due out very soon. Zondervan’s website says it’s “coming January 2011.” Amazon says “January 25, 2011.” WTS Books says “February 2011.” Systematic theologies are one of my favorite categories of books, so I’m really looking forward to […]
Doug Wilson on the Morality of Technology
Doug Wilson has some good, balanced reflections on technology in a post entitled “Calvinism, Eschatology, and the New Media.” He opens this way: Jesus is the Lord of history, and this is why we don’t need to be afraid of Twitter. Or Facebook. Or teenagers typing with their thumbs. Jesus is the Lord of history, […]