21 May 2025

Now Available: The 2025 Issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal

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The newest issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal is now available online. The 2025 issue contains ten peer-reviewed articles and 12 pages of book reviews. This year’s journal is dedicated to Dr. R. Bruce Compton, who will retire this month after 41 years of faithful service as a professor at DBTS. This year’s issue,...
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3 Apr 2025

Pietism & Conflict

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Some bad effects of the pietistic heritage of fundamentalism and evangelicalism tend to make conflicts worse: An all-or-nothing view of people and ministries. A misguided view of spirituality affects how others and oneself are viewed. Being “wrong” on some issue is viewed as a spiritual problem, and being “right” is often treated as if it...
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11 Oct 2024

Now Available: The 2024 Issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal

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The newest issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal is now available online. The 2024 issue contains six peer-reviewed articles and 68 pages of book reviews. This year’s issue, along with all back issues of the DBSJ, can be downloaded for free from our seminary website. Print copies of the journal will be available soon.
30 Sep 2024

The Active Obedience of Christ: An Intrusion into Baptist Life?

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Occasionally, some well-meaning Baptists have asserted that belief in both the active and passive obedience of Christ as the ground of our justification is something foreign to Baptist life—perhaps something picked up from the Gospel Coalition, the now inactive T4G, or some other evangelical organization of recent vintage. But is this true? And more specifically,...
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23 Aug 2024

Have You Considered Auditing a Course at DBTS this Fall?

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The Fall 2024 semester here at DBTS will begin next Thursday the 29th. The schedule for this fall with links to course descriptions and textbooks, can be found here. While it’s not too late to apply for a degree program, you could also consider auditing a course, receiving the same great content and the opportunity...
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19 Aug 2024

Review of How to Read a Book by Andrew Naselli

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This past April, Andrew Naselli’s new volume, How to Read a Book: Advice for Christian Readers, was released by Canon Press. Over the past few months, six of my kids have read it. Most of them had already read Adler’s book with a similar title.[1] They thought Naselli’s book was an extremely helpful resource and,...
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12 Aug 2024

Does Proverbs Plagiarize from Egyptian Wisdom?

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Recently, I came across a Reddit thread with a provocative title: “The Bible’s God-inspired book of Proverbs is plagiarized from the Egyptian Teachings of Amenemope.” The thread was of interest because I had recently finished working through the section that allegedly borrows from The Instruction of Amenemope in my work for a forthcoming Proverbs commentary...
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5 Aug 2024

Theologically Loaded Catch-Lines, Part 2: What Does It Mean for God to “Be with Us”?

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In this post I resume my series of blogposts on historically/theologically freighted phrases/clauses/mantras that have become cliché in contemporary Christian-speak—lines that are intrinsically innocuous (i.e., the words themselves are unobjectionable) but sometimes mask ideas that are not.  The second of these catch-lines is the request for God to be “with us.” This line pops up routinely in...
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29 Jul 2024

What to Do After Graduation? Why Not Go Back to Your Home Church

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This post was originally published here on January 21, 2014. Many college and seminary students are either preparing for another semester of school to start or have already begun working on classes. For some, this will be their final semester before graduation. Though some may have already determined the next step, others are still weighing...
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