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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Christmas Shows How Preachers from Augustine to Bonhoeffer Contributed to Preaching
What do Augustine and Francis of Assisi, Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer all have in common?
They embody the rich legacy of preaching thr...
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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] Can You Start in Azusa and Still Make It to Nicea? Engaging Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit
Zondervan Academic’s New Studies in Dogmatics series launched this fall with its first volume, Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit, appeari...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: Kickoff Reception at ETS Today (11/19/15)
Are you at ETS? This very morning, meet some of the team behind the New Studies in Dogmatics series at our coffee reception:
WHEN: November...
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What is the Holy Spirit? Augustine and Barth Help Us Understand
What is the Holy Spirit?
Is it akin to George Lucas’s pantheistic vision of The Force? Is “it” even the proper pronoun, an affront to the Th...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: Barth’s Pneumatology in Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit
Zondervan Academic’s New Studies in Dogmatics series launches this fall with its first volume, Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit, which ...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: The Holy Spirit
Zondervan Academic’s New Studies in Dogmatics series launches this fall with its first volume, Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit, appeari...
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Extracurricular Activities 4.11.15 — Economic Discrimination, Conversion, & Jesus' Sabbath Rest
Jordan Ballor on the Logic of Economic Discrimination
Why should big businesses like Apple, Angie’s List, or Salesforce be able to discrimin...
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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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Which Doctrine Has Seen A Revival of Interest? The One Barth Placed Front and Center
“The doctrine of the Trinity stands front and center of the Christian faith and its articulation.” (13)
Jason S. Sexton makes this declarat...
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Barth on the Word and Scripture
“For Barth, the Word of God (i.e., the event of God’s self-revelation) is always a new work, a free decision of God that cannot be bound to...
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