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3 Reasons Why Catholics and Protestants Interpret Scripture Differently
While Protestants are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Catholic professor Matthew Levering is asking a basic-level question: Was the Reformation a mistake? In his similarly titled...
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Does Sanctification Have Any Place in the Economy of the Gospel?
While the Protestant Church is coming off from a week celebrating the Reformation rallying cry “justification by grace through faith,” we need to ask what about sanctification? Does holiness have a...
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Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Discoveries in cosmology, paleontology, and genomics has considerably changed the context for the creation-evolution debate in the last two decades. Which is why an update to the first Counterpoints...
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Katherine Sonderegger on the Task of Dogmatic Theology: “The Bible is…”
What is the Bible and what is its place within the task of dogmatic theology, particularly issues of method? That was the question theologian Katherine Sonderegger engaged at the 2016 Los Angeles...
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Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics: 5 Contemporary Insights
Since 2013 the Los Angeles Theology Conference (LATC) has sought to advance contemporary dogmatics by fostering serious, collegial engagement with Scripture and tradition, retrieving the best of the...
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15 Things You Need to Know About the Eternal Generation of the Son
Although the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times. A new book aims to reverse the trend. Retrieving Eternal Generation...
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What is Christological Anthropology?
What does it means to be human? Although Christians have answered that “Jesus reveals what it means to be human,” this orthodox truism isn’t all that helpful. That’s what theologian Marc Cortez...
View ArticleCan We Still Believe in Miracles Today? Should We?
This post is adapted from K. Scott Oliphant’s new online course, Know Why You Believe. How could you believe that an ax head could ever float on water? How about a person? Could a person walk on water?...
View ArticleWhy your belief in absolutes doesn’t make you judgmental
Today’s post comes from Sam Chan, a public evangelist with City Bible Forum in Sydney, Australia, where he regularly shares the gospel with high school students, city workers, doctors, and lawyers. Why...
View ArticleWhy science hasn’t disproved Christianity
We used to live in the Dark Ages, where we believed in unicorns, fairy godmothers, and goblins. But then science came along and it rescued us from superstition and our age of darkness. …Or that’s how...
View ArticleHow we know Jesus is God: 2 ways of understanding religion
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View ArticleWhat is a leap of faith?
We hear the phrase “leap of faith” all the time. It refers to a momentous decision we must make that lies outside reason, or one that forces us to grapple with a difficult belief or moral position....
View ArticleTheology eBook Sale (February 12-14, 2018)
Save up to 53% on theology eBooks in our brief eBook Sale ending on February 14, 2018 (11:59pm ET). Deals include: Known by God: A Biblical Theology of Personal Identity by Brian Rosner. 50% OFF...
View ArticleThe Nicene Creed: Where it came from and why it still matters
The Nicene Creed is one of the most famous and influential creeds in the history of the church, because it settled the question of how Christians can worship one God and also claim that this God is...
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The Contest of Good and Evil Within Us: An Excerpt from Jack Deere’s Memoir
In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that we all have one story, and it is the same story: the contest of good and evil within us. Any honest person knows that they are losing this contest. As a...
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The Truth About God’s Love
Telling the truth is the essence of memoir. Jack Deere tells the truth about his own life in order to share with us the truth about life in his new book Even in Our Darkness. In it, he offers an...
View ArticleCraig Keener on reading, writing, and biblical scholarship
Craig S. Keener is the F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Miracles and Spirit Hermeneutics. His...
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10 Reasons Why People Reject the Gospel
If the gospel is the “good news about Jesus,” then why do so many people reject it? If Christians bear this “good news,” how can they better share it using methods that are effective in today’s...
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What Is Evangelism?
Most Christians know that they should be engaging in the work of evangelism, but few know what evangelism is. For example, is the stay-at-home mom who helps run the play group at her church doing...
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12 Ways Evangelism Is Changing
You’ve heard it said the twenty-first century is markedly different from the twentieth. It’s not only because we have terrorism scares, self-driving cars, and Facebook. Church attendance is decreasing,...
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