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The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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[Common Places] Engaging with Kate Sonderegger: Interview (Part 2)
The release of a book within a multi-volume systematic theology project makes for a momentous occasion in the world of systematic theology. ...
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[Common Places] Engaging with Kate Sonderegger: Interview (Part 1)
The release of a book within a multi-volume systematic theology project makes for a momentous occasion in the world of systematic theology. ...
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[Common Places] Engaging with Kate Sonderegger: The One and the Many
The arrival of a new contribution to a multi-volume systematic theology marks a major moment in the discipline. All the more so when the aut...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: The Divine Names
The perfections of the triune God may be treated profitably under various aspects. Under the aspect of “divine attributes,” God’s perfection...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: Sanctification
Writing invariably involves paths both foreseen and surprising. Preparing this volume on sanctification has involved both experiences.
Previ...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: Election
When thinking about the doctrine of election is it impossible not to stand in the shadow of great thinkers that have gone before. Aside from...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: The Holy Spirit
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will p...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: Christology
Christology is an area of particular dogmatic weakness for evangelical theology. So, when I signed up to write the Christology volume for N...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: The Triune God
When I was invited to write The Triune God for the New Studies in Dogmatics series, I knew what my basic approach to the doctrine would be, ...
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[Common Places] Introduction to New Studies in Dogmatics
Over the next few weeks and months, Common Places will be introducing a new series to be published by Zondervan Academic entitled New Studie...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Taylor Ruiz-Jones’s “From Siesta to Sabbath”
In a world of contemporary systematic theologies so often dominated by approaches committed to retrieval, Taylor Ruiz-Jones steps into the f...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Jonathan Linebaugh’s God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Good theology has a shape, a structure: a way of connecting its various themes and motifs via one or more anchor points that fix the framewo...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Michael Legaspi’s The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies
A conventional account of the history of modern biblical scholarship will often begin by looking at some of the great Medieval pashtanim—tha...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Wesley Hill’s "Paul and the Trinity"
Taking the long view of things, the Christian doctrine of God has had a strange career.
It took its classic, trinitarian form as the early ...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Jeremy R. Treat’s "The Crucified King"
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
—William B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Yeats probably did not have the academy and church in...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Stephen T. Pardue’s "The Mind of Christ"
May the mind of Christ my Savior
Live in me from day to day,
By his love and pow’r controlling
All I do and say.
So many of us have sung—but...
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