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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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Four Lessons Learned From Jewish-Christian Dialogue
In his brilliant primer on the Christian faith, C.S. Lewis set out to distill the essence of Christianity down to its mereness. His celebrat...
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[Common Places] Pro-Nicene Theology: Simplicity in Scripture
Our current series, Pro-Nicene Theology, offers doctrinal and exegetical entries to the key tenets of basic Trinitarian orthodoxy as develop...
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Did Jesus Claim to Be God? Muslims Say “No”
In No God but One: Allah or Jesus?, Nabeel Qureshi investigates the evidence for Islam and Christianity as a former Muslim. One of the most ...
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Do You Know These 7 Differences Between the Bible and Quran?
While nearly every religion has a text which it considers sacred, not every sacred text is equal in nature, composition, transmission, a...
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[Common Places] Pro-Nicene Theology: Divine Simplicity
Our current series, Pro-Nicene Theology, offers doctrinal and exegetical entries to the key tenets of basic Trinitarian orthodoxy as develo...
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How Do Islam and Christianity Define Our Problem and Solution?
Earlier this year my family moved to a diverse neighborhood in the suburbs of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The next day, we discovered we moved n...
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Should Christians Defend Jesus’ Virgin Birth?
“The notion that Jesus was born to a young Galilean girl who was still a virgin has proven to be one of the most objectionable and mocked be...
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[Common Places] Pro-Nicene Theology: Ineffability in Scripture
Our current series, Pro-Nicene Theology, offers doctrinal and exegetical entries to the key tenets of basic Trinitarian orthodoxy as develop...
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5 Things I Learned About Kierkegaard’s Work from Stephen Backhouse
“Whatever your take on modern life, there are two things that can be said about [Søren] Kierkegaard: his influence on our various modes of t...
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5 Things I Learned About Kierkegaard’s Life from Stephen Backhouse
I hate to admit it, but not only did I skimp on Kierkegaard during my ThM in historical theology, Robert Bretall’s anthology of Kierkegaard’...
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What is Historical Theology?
What is historical theology?
Historical theology is the discipline that studies the interpretation of Scripture and the theological formulat...
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[Common Places] Pro-Nicene Theology: Entryways and Ineffability (Part 2)
Our current series, Pro-Nicene Theology, offers doctrinal and exegetical entries to the key tenets of basic Trinitarian orthodoxy as develo...
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[Common Places] Pro-Nicene Theology: Entryways and Ineffability (Part 1)
The doctrine of the Trinity serves as the fundamental lodestar of all Christian belief, the shining center of all Christian truth and the fo...
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Who Has God Made You to Be? Visually Explore a Theology of Vocation
How do you discover who God has made you to be, what gifts and skills he’s given you, and what responsibilities he’s entrusted to you?
Tim C...
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Karl Barth on Mind, Body, and a Christological Anthropology
What does it mean to be human?
Two theories have generally explained our ontological construction: one argues we are dually composed of sepa...
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[Common Places] Reading Notes: The Soul
While Christianity is by no means the only faith—nor theology the only discipline—concerned to know the soul, it is because the Christian c...
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