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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 — December 28, 2013
Collin Hansen's Top 10 Theology Stories for 2013
The only thing I know about your reaction to this list of top 10 theology stories is t...
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Reflecting on the Incarnation with Sanctuary Christology in John — Excerpt from "Christology, Ancient and Modern"
On this day after Christmas we continue our reflection on the incarnation this week with an excerpt from the new book, Christology, Ancient...
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A Christmas Eve Reflection on the Incarnation from "Christology, Ancient and Modern"
Amazingly, the Church has cycled through another year of the liturgical calendar, arriving at the moment where we celebrate the coming of t...
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Why Do Translations Use Antiquated Terms Like "Gospel"?
Someone just sent me the following.
I'm particularly interested in communicating Scripture in terms that the average person on the stre...
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Four Views on the Historical Adam: Pastoral Reflections by Greg Boyd and Philip Ryken
Last week we engaged a new timely book that shares the views of four leading evangelical scholars concerning the historicity of Adam, Four ...
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Extracurricular Activities — December 21, 2013
Michael Bird Says Keep the Spirit of St. Nicholas this Christmas, Slap Down a Heretic
I’m sure you’re all familiar with Santa Clause,...
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5 Last-Minute Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Academic Friend
If you haven't finished your Christmas shopping yet, there's good news and bad news.
The bad news: You have less than five days to f...
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Anchor Your People In the Early Church Fathers — An Excerpt from "Awakening Faith"
My childhood church background is in the independent Bible movement. For college, I went to a liberal arts Bible college of the Baptist vari...
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Four Views on the Historical Adam: William Barrick Says "A Historical Adam, Young-Earth Creation"
If you've been following along here the past day you know that this week we are engaging in what one theologian calls "a groundbre...
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Four Views on the Historical Adam: C. John Collins Says "A Historical Adam, Old-Earth Creation"
This week we are engaging what Richard Ostling calls "a groundbreaking science-and-Scripture dispute." This so-called dispu...
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Four Views on the Historical Adam: John Walton Says "A Historical Adam, Archetypal Creation"
This week we are engaging what Richard Ostling calls "a groundbreaking science-and-Scripture dispute." This so-called disput...
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Four Views of the Historical Adam: Denis Lamoureux Says "No Historical Adam, Evolutionary Creation"
For the better part of a decade I have noticed a shift within evangelical origins conversations from merely the temporal and methodological ...
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“I have the right to do anything” ( 1 Cor 6:12) Really? — Mondays with Mounce 210
Does Paul really believe that “I have the right to do anything” ( 1 Cor 6:12)? Really? Anything?
Of course not. Paul does not have the righ...
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Extracurricular Activities — December 14, 2013
Tim Challies on The People's Pope, The (TIME) Man of The Year
The world reacted with shock when, on March 13, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was...
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Christianity Today's 2014 Book Award for Biblical Studies: "Paul and Union with Christ" by Con Campbell
Congratulations to Constantine Campbell, who's just been awarded the 2014 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies for his book...
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Is Monasticism Exceptional or Normal? — An Excerpt from "Church History, Vol. 1, 2nd Ed."
 
I am a student of history, particularly Church history. There is much to discover (or perhaps rediscover) about the beliefs a...
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