theology

The church, the seminary and the academy from rosclarke 851 days old

David Field makes some important distinctions here.

A Cresheim Valley Question from rosclarke 943 days old

Why is there so much evil in the world? This is a great question, which lots of much cleverer people than me have struggled to answer. I think a helpful ...

More Cresheim Valley questions from rosclarke 973 days old

If God knew that we would sin, why did he create the world? Our tendency in answering this question is to look at it from a man-centred perspective: ...

Catechism questions from rosclarke 973 days old

One of the families at Cresheim Valley is going through the catechism with their son who has lots of questions. I don't feel qualified to know how to ...

Some moments from von Rad from rosclarke 1033 days old

Struggling through von Rad's Old Testament Theology today. Here's a thought I was surprised to find - I thought it originated with Packer: it cannot ...

Word and Sacrament from rosclarke 1064 days old

One or two people have expressed interested in reading this paper I wrote recently on the function of the words of institution of the Lord's Supper. ...

Be imitators of me... from rosclarke 1064 days old

(Not me, Paul) Hays (see previous post) suggests several ways in which we may learn to be imitators of Paul in our interpretation of Scripture: (i) ...

Echoes of Scripture from rosclarke 1064 days old

Richard Hays' book: 'Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul' is a fascinating read and in lots of instances I find his readings of Paul highly persuasive. ...

Free online journals from rosclarke 1073 days old

From now until Jan 31st you can sign up for a free trial to access all SAGE Journals (includes Expository Times, JSNT and others) here.

The Complete Theologian from rosclarke 1118 days old

[ ... ] or in theology or church history; for them the interpretation of the Bible was a seamlesly integrated theological activity that spoke ...