For those of you who might want to read this report, I finally got a hold of the Greek NT Bold font, which the report’s PDF document uses. This font will allow you do read the report with the Greek text clearly displayed (once you install it in the “fonts” under your Windows “control panel”). Here is the font:
Also, for those of you who haven’t read the report or heard of it…
Of course I am! What better kind of eschatology could one hold??? 🙂
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Jürgen Moltmann is one of the key eschatological thinkers of the 20th Century. Eschatology is not only about heaven and hell, but God’s plan to make all things new. This should spur us on to political and social action in the present.
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Trevin has provided a helpful review of John Piper’s new book on Justification and N.T. Wright. Here are the 18 posts, in order, for all of you to have easy access to read through them. Enjoy and please let me know what you think!
1. Some Preliminary Thoughts
2. Piper’s Introduction
3. On Controversy
4. Historical Research
5. Covenant and Law-court
6. Penal Substitution
7. Defining “Righteousnessâ€
8. Imputation
9. What is “The Gospel†Anyway?
10. The Gospel is “Jesus is Lordâ€
11. Our Standing Before God
12. Justification and “The Gospelâ€
13. Justification By Works
14. Common Ground?
15. Judaism in the First Century
16. Self-Righteousness
17. The Righteousness of Christ
18. Piper’s Conclusion
For those of you interested, Mark M. Mattison, over at the Paul Page, has just published the entire, original essay by James D. G. Dunn entitled “The New Perspective on Paul” plus Dunn’s 1990 “Additional Note.” This is the key essay in the development of “The New Perspective” (the phrase that Dunn himself coined) and it is a must read for those seeking to understand the trajectory of most New Testament scholars today.
I will refer you back to a previous post I made that contains both positive and critical analysis of this movement by two very prominent men in Pauline scholarship.
Above you will find the link to the recent post by Christianity Today on this issue. Below you will find Wade’s response last month regarding the censure:
I Support Lottie Moon, the IMB and the SBC
I have followed this whole debacle since the first blogging incedent occured with Wade and the IMB Trustee Board. I cannot say how upset and dis-heartened I am to find out about this most recent attempt to censure Pastor Burleson. As of today, I can tell you that you should continue to support the IMB if you currently do, but that you should seriously consider protesting the action of the trustee board by letter or phone call. If the trustee board continues to affect bad policies on the IMB and it’s missionaries, I’m not sure what should be done except to say that those trustees should be gagged and bagged and tossed out for the sake of God’s Kingdom. Ultimately it is up to the SBC messenger to deal with these problems at the yearly SBC meeting. I just don’t know if that is going to happen any time soon.
Pray for the IMB Board of Trustees and pray that they will stop this non-sense!
In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,
Thanks to James Grant for alerting me to this…
James points to an article by Timmy Brister in response to this resolution. I have grown up in the Southern Baptist Convention and it is the only church denomination that I have know and been a member of throughout my life. I thought that the various state conventions condemning alcohol was bad enough, but this generalization about blogging is just too much. The SBC has way too many people in it who are just not getting things right and it may just be a whole generation away before things start to change for the better. Only God knows.
In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,
Here is the full transcript of the interview Trevin conducted with N.T. Wright. This is a really great interview and I hope that every one of you will read through it or listen to the mp3 of it. The mp3 is available for direct download here.
I really appreciated Wright’s response and comments regarding his critics, in particular John Piper. Here is what Wright had to say about Piper and his new book:
“Piper is in a different category. He graciously sent me an advance manuscript of his book which is critiquing me and invited my comments on it. I sent him a lengthy set of comments. I’ve only just got on email about two days ago the book in the revised form and I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet. So I cannot say whether he’s being fair or not at this stage.
But I do know that he has done his darndest to be fair and I honor that and I respect that. People have asked me if I’m going to write a response, and the answer is that I don’t know. I’m kind of busy right now. But I maybe should, sooner or later.“
I would love to see that response! Pray that Wright will find the time to respond and that this Piper/Wright dialogue will continue to bear fruit for God’s Kingdom.
The breakdown of the interview is also available in individual postings. Here is the breakdown:
Hello Readers,
I want to let everyone know of a very exciting addition to the web site:
In Defense of the Faith – Online Discussion Forum
That’s right! Now you can join me and other friends in the online forum to discuss the relevant issues of today, and whatever else you want to talk about along the way. Ask questions about theology, doctrine, or apologetics. Create your own posts about topics you would like to talk about regarding the Christian life and Christian doctrine.
Click on the link above and register today! Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for discussion. I pray that this forum will be a blessing to everyone that takes part in it, for the glory of God and the good of His people!
In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,
Over at the CBMW blog, an interesting article was posted the other day about a doctoral dissertation that was successfully defended at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, Europe. Here is part of the article below… but I encourage you to read all of it and realize the direction that this world is headed regarding technology and sin. Another thought that popped into my head: Will people use this to rid the world of sexually transmitted diseases??? Anyway, here’s the excerpt…
On October 11 a British artificial intelligence researcher successfully defended a dissertation on human marriage to robots and will be awarded a doctorate degree from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners” by David Levy was based on 450 publications in fields such as psychology, sociology, robotics, materials science, artificial intelligence, and gender studies.
“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots,” said Levy. He conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them.
In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five years, and Levy thinks that’s quite likely. “It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t,” Levy said. “Love and sex with robots are inevitable.”
“One hundred years ago, interracial marriage and same-sex marriages were illegal in the United States. Interracial marriage has been legal now for 50 years, and same-sex marriage is legal in some parts of the states,” Levy said. “There has been this trend in marriage where each partner gets to make their own choice of who they want to be with.”
“The question is not if this will happen, but when,” Levy said. “I am convinced the answer is much earlier than you think.”
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