24
Sep
2012
Abortion and the Early Church
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In this post, I’m going to address two misconceptions that people often hold concerning abortion. First, many people assume that elective abortions are a fairly recent phenomenon—something made possible only by modern medicine. And second, oftentimes people view abortion as primarily a political issue. In both cases, nothing could be further from the truth. For... Read More
22
Sep
2012
Surviving Seminary as a Family: The Wife's Perspective
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This is the second part of a two-part post on how to survive seminary as a couple/family. The first part is Mark Snoeberger’s perspective as a husband. What follows below is an answer to the same question from the perspective of Mark’s wife, Heather. The seminary years that Mark and I shared were a blessing... Read More
20
Sep
2012
Surviving Seminary as a Family: The Husband's Perspective
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Since my wife and I are seminary survivors that still occasionally hold hands in public, we are sometimes asked, “How did you do it?” Or “How did you survive the seminary experience?” For the next two posts on this blog, we are going to answer that question—I from my perspective, and Heather from hers. It’s... Read More
19
Sep
2012
The Gospel of Jesus' Wife
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Did Jesus have a wife? No, of course not! Though, as you may remember, that was what Dan Brown’s controversial novel The Da Vinci Code claimed. The internet has been abuzz the last 24 hours about a small papyrus fragment written in Coptic that professor Karen L. King of Harvard has now published. The New York Times and other medial... Read More
18
Sep
2012
Do I Answer a Fool? Or Do I not?
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In Proverbs 26:4 we are commanded not to answer a fool, but in the very next verse we’re commanded to answer a fool. On the surface I am in a quagmire since both commands seem to be in conflict with each other. So do I or do I not answer a fool? This raises a... Read More
16
Sep
2012
Nestle-Aland 28
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The new 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland text that we mentioned previously is apparently now becoming available (at least in Europe). Christian Askeland interviews Prof. Dr. Holger Strutwolf of the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung about the new edition.
14
Sep
2012
The Mystery of Christ: God's Glory among the Gentiles
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The relationship between the Old and New Testaments has been debated (sometimes hotly) since the book of Acts! This makes sense since so much hangs in the balance of properly understanding this issue—What role does the Law have in a NT believer’s life? Is the Church a New Israel? Does God have a future plan... Read More
12
Sep
2012
Why Christians Need History
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I just began my second time through an introductory course on the Gospels. The very first assignment I have my students do is to read and respond to an article Scot McKnight wrote in CT back in 2010 titled “The Jesus We’ll Never Know,” in which he argues that evangelicals should abandon the quest for... Read More
10
Sep
2012
“History is More or Less Bunk”… But Let’s Build a Museum Anyway
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In 1916, the Chicago Tribune published a series of articles about Henry Ford, the famous industrialist. One of those articles included a statement from Ford that, with slight variations, has been repeated many times over, often to the chagrin of history teachers. Ford was quoted as saying, History is more or less bunk. It’s... Read More
8
Sep
2012
Book Note for Academic Writers
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Rowman & Littlefield just graciously sent me a desk copy of their Guide to Writing with Sources by James Davis (2012), so I took the requisite 45 minutes to read it. Since I teach Theological Research Methods here at DBTS, I try to keep up on sources of this nature, and this one was a gem.... Read More