My esteemed co-blogger might be in a better position than me to comment on this (since Joel is a LU grad). But in an article at CT , I found...

Over at Jesus Creed my friend and colleague Scot McKnight endorses Richard Stearn's (President of World Vision) new book The Hole in Ou...

Can you identify from what source this quote is drawn? It seems that Paul envisaged the "church" as co-existing in close relation ...

Sometime ago (in fact, a long time ago) I wrote a blogpost on specialists and generalists in biblical studies. More recently, at the May is...

Tomorrow I head off to Brisbane, Australia for a quick visit. For those friends and well-wishers in Brisbane (the closest thing to Zion on e...

Calvin and Luther undoubtedly shared a perspective of a forensic act of justification based on an alien righteousness imputed to believers. ...

What are the best Old Testament Theologies around these days? Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocac...

In my Greek Texts III class today, we finished off the semester (and their undergraduate Greek) by getting them to translate one final Greek...

W. Robert Godfrey has a good article at CT about Calvin and His Time .

Over at Christian Theology on the Bible , Chris Spinks is posting a series of quotes from Stephen Fowl's forthcoming book on Theological...

I'm currently reading through J. Todd Billings on Calvin, Participation, and the Gift and I enjoyed this quote about participation and ...

We all know that the "fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 9.10). But what does it actually mean to "fear the ...

There seems to be a slight neglect of the Gospel of Mark by the Germans in recent decades in view of the dearth of Markan commentaries. How...

I recently stumbled across a brief and altogether interesting article on Matthew 1:1 “Jesus, the Messiah, son of David, son of Abraham” by L...

I've been reading Walt Kaiser's essay on "Single Meaning, Unified Referents" in Three Views on the New Testament Use of th...

My friend Craig Blomberg offers some glowing thoughts on N.T. Wright's new book on justification. He writes: "In the past, Wright ...

Although this is about a week too late for my Pauline theology students, this discussion on union with Christ with Con Campbell is worth ch...

Over at CT, Susan Wunderink has a good interview with D.A. Carson on the Gospel Coalition. Carson makes some good points on what it is like...

Here is the first installment of recommended German commentaries on the New Testament. We will go book by book. For Matthew there are three:...

Stephen R. Holmes has an interesting article in Evangelical Quarterly called, "Evangelical doctrines of Scripture in transatlantic per...