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One of the commonly invoked arguments in any discussion of natural theology and the evidence for God is the Anthropic Principle – or put simply, the fact that the universe in which we live is incredibly finely tuned to support the existence of life as we know it.  Karl Giberson recently posted on this at…

Henry David Thoreau, in Walden (Everyman’s Library), speaks to a serious issue more of us might need to ponder in our hurried days: “To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of…

I grew up in the gospel I sketched Monday, so when I contend that I think it is right but not right enough, you can take it as friendly fire from one who learned the hard way. Three experiences led me not only to embrace a gospel like what we find in Luke but to…

1 Corinthians doesn’t have as many good commentaries as does 2 Corinthians, but these are my top four picks: I begin with Gordon Fee: The First Epistle to the Corinthians . Then I back up in time and read C.K. Barrett, whose skill in writing commentaries on Paul has no rival: The First Epistle to…

We better quote the text from James 2:20-24 again: 20 You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 21 Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his…

Tom Wright made a fascinating suggestion in chp two of his book, Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision , that I did not mention in our previous summary. He suggested that Ephesians may have begun the new perspective. Until you know what that kind of claim means you should be very careful about criticizing the…

Andrew Marin’s new and ground-breaking book, Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation With the Gay Community , proposes — the terms are mine — the power of “with” vs. the power of the battle between “for” or “against.” What does it mean to use the power of “with”? What does it mean to move…

We can’t possibly trot through the whole of Luke’s Gospel so I want to focus on one element of Luke’ Story because it opens up the entire Gospel. Luke’s Gospel, like the rest of the Bible, focuses on the covenant community of faith instead of on an individual’s relationship with God. If you read Luke…

The next seven verses are some of the most fought-over verses in the Bible. These verses led Luther to his famous “right strawy epistle.” It led him to put James further back in the German New Testament. Calvin wrestled these verses into shape. We fight over these verses because they appear to be teaching what…

We are discussing Tom Wright’s new book , a book that responds to John Piper’s criticism of Wright and the New Perspective (Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision ). The 2d chp of this book deals with the rules of engagement. Here is Wright’s simple approach: “The rules for engagement for any debate about Paul…
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