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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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Extracurricular Activities 11.8.15 — The 153 Fish, Strong vs. Weak Christians, & Making Papyrus
Fred Sanders Engages Wainwright on the Trinity in the New Testament
In 1962, Arthur W. Wainwright published The Trinity in the New Testament...
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Extracurricular Activities 11.01.14 — Favorite Heresies, Luther's 95 Theses, Ross Douthat's Catholicism
New Poll Finds Evangelicals’ Favorite Heresies
Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important co...
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Extracurricular Activities 10.25.14—J.I. Packer's Conversion, A Softer Calvinism, & The Parish's Death
Justin Taylor Reflects on J. I. Packer's Conversion — 70 Years Ago
On Sunday, October 22, 1944—seventy years ago today—it is doubtful that a...
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Extracurricular Activities 10.18.14 — Canonical & Non-Canonical Gospels, Bonhoeffer, A Rule for Reading
Simon Gathercole on the Canonical and Non-Canonical Gospels
A highlight of the British New Testament Conference this year was Dr Simon Gathe...
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Extracurricular Activities 10.11.14 — The Trinity, New Testament Texts, & Catholic Reformers
Fred Sanders: The Trinity's Irrelevance & Relevance to the Christian Life
I was excited when Kyle Strobel and Kent Eilers invited me to ...
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Extracurricular Activities 10.4.14 — Bible Translations, Jesus's Parables, & Theological Education's Mission
Scot McKnight on the Politics of Bible Translations
The Bible you carry is a political act. By “Bible” I mean the Translation of the Bible y...
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Extracurricular Activities 9.27.14 — Greco-Roman Jesus, Charles Hodge, and the Christian Masculinity Complex
Roger Olson on Charles Hodge as "Gold Standard" Reformed Theologian
Tucked away inside my copy of Volume 1 of his Systematic Theology (Eerdm...
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Extracurricular Activities 9.20.14 — Divine Simplicity, European Christianity, & New Testament Ethics
Adam Johnson on Boethius and Divine Simplicity
Perhaps you have heard of the term “divine simplicity.” The basic meaning is that God is one ...
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Extracurricular Activities 9.13.14 —Pannenberg, The New Evangelization, & D. L. Moody
Michael Root on The Achievements of Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014)
Some theologians are mirrors of their time. The mid-twentieth century ri...
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Extracurricular Activities 9.6.14 — Erasmus & Ephesians, Repetition in the Bible, and John Owen's "Mortification"
Fred Sanders on Erasmus "Milking" Ephesians
Erasmus of Rotterdam taught the Renaissance world how to take a thought and expand it, expound i...
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Extracurricular Activities 8.30.14 — Kinship-Terms, Rabbinic Judaism, & Academic Freedom
Larry Hurtado Shares Important Studies of Kinship-terms and Forms of Address
Through reading the recently-published thesis of one of our PhD...
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Extracurricular Activities 8.23.14 — 2nd-Temple Divine Names, Mistreating Creation, & Feeling African-American Pain
Joel Willitts Shares a Solution to the Problem of the Historical Origins of the Bible and Jesus
I found this very interesting passage in Mar...
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Extracurricular Activities 8.15.14 — Cultural Disintegration, Mike Bird's Inerrancy, and Septuagint Explained
Tim Gombis Reflects on Salvation as Gift and Obligation
Many Christians have trouble with the paradox in Paul whereby salvation is both a gi...
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Extracurricular Activities 8.9.14 — John Owen's Wisdom, The Elder's Vow, and Tolkien & Lewis
Was Adam a Historical Person? Asks Guy Walters
In the modern world, skeptics have long questioned or denied the historicity of Adam. Neo-or...
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Extracurricular Activities 8.2.14 — McKnight & Science, Enns & Inerrancy, and James Montgomery Boice
Larry Hurtado Asks, "Was Early Christianity Secretive?"
In an interview with a TV producer a week or so ago, the question came up...
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Extracurricular Activities 7.26.14 — Inerrancy, Immortality of the Soul, & Vanishing Middle-Class Clergy
Andrew Wilson on "Why I Don't Hate the Word 'Inerrancy'"
In ten years of teaching, writing, and researching theology,...
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