church and salvation
The order of the article on the Spirit in the Apostles’ Creed raises an interesting question: “I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,...
View ArticleSelf-Defense or Defense of Unity?
What if 1 Corinthians isn’t really about Paul’s apostleship, but about the need for the body of Jesus to be one? Perhaps a false dichotomy in the end, especially since they are divided over Paul’s...
View ArticlePaul: Christ-centered and Church-centered
Richard Hays on what Paul did with Scripture (or from another perspective, what Scripture did to Paul): Paul’s explicit use of Isaiah is uncontestably “ecclesiocentric,” as is his use of Scripture more...
View ArticleLove has a context
Against the contemporary American backdrop of Ke$ha singing about love as a drug and Disney platitudes about “true love,” it’s stunning and more than a little uncomfortable to learn what “true love”...
View ArticleWhat Paul Saw in Heaven
There’s an article in the latest Bulletin for Biblical Research in which I explore Paul’s heavenly experience in 2 Cor 12. Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” in the same passage has been the subjection of...
View ArticleThe Final Word
I’ve not yet read Christian Smith’s book, to which Gerald referred in an earlier post. But in this short article, Peter Leithart highlights the crucial issue in dealing with the question of sola...
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