Guest AuthorOne of the most influential of all British Baptists wrote the following lines: The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach today, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I...
Baptist Roots Where did Baptists come from and, historically, what are their beliefs? The majority of historians agree that today’s Baptists were derived from three major sixteenth-century streams: Particular Baptists, General Baptists, and...
Everybody wants glory, but not everyone is willing to pay the price required to attain it. Jesus’ path to glory was not through teaching, preaching, healing, or any of the works he did during his earthly ministry. His path to glory led through the...
Book Review Arthur J. Dewey, Roy W. Hoover, Lane C. McGaughy, and Daryl D. Schmidt, Polebridge Press, 2010, 270 pp. Those who appreciated the fresh and edgy translation of the Scholars Version of the Gospels will be thrilled with the Westar...
Book Review Kent L. Yinger, Cascade Books, 2011, 120 pp. Kent L. Yinger’s The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction is as accessible as it is academically sound. In only 120 pages he outlines and illustrates nearly every aspect of the new...
Today’s guest blogger is Thomas Black, a Logos Forum MVP and a Pastor in Moweaqua, Illinois. A barn raising used to bring an entire community together to accomplish, in just one or two days, something that would have taken a single family an...
by Mark Reasoner, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN AAR/SBL Meeting, November 18, 2006, Washington, DC The gospel, which Paul celebrated and described in his letters, certainly has a political edge to it, since Paul describes this gospel’s effects...
A link to Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision by N.T. Wright as reviewed by V. George Shillington in the Review of Biblical Literature has been added to the category Around the Web: Book Reviews.
Traditionally, dikaioumai, ‘to be justified’, has been understood in general as ‘to be put in right relation with God’. Arndt-Gingrich defines it: ‘to be acquitted, be pronounced and treated as righteous, and thereby become dikaios (righteous)...
by Edward L. Hamilton Over the last three decades, a series of scholarly developments known as the “new perspective on Paul” has challenged traditional interpretations of the theology of the Pauline epistles, particularly Galatians and...
N.T. Wright is one of the prominent voices of what has been labeled the “New Perspective on Paul,” a currently debated subject in the Church today. The crux of the “New Perspective” is a redefining of Paul’s writings on justification/righteousness...
Book Review N.T. Wright, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1992, 560 pp. This massive undertaking lays the epistemological, literary, and historical foundations for Wright’s projected five-volume series (now stretching into six)...
Book Review James D.G. Dunn, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008, 551 pp. When James D.G. Dunn delivered his Manson Memorial Lecture in 1982, he set out to sketch an emerging paradigm in current Pauline studies. Though it wasn’t...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Reviewed by Bill DeJong. Essay Review Krister Stendahl, “The Apostle Paul and the...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Written by Kevin Bywater. Professor Francis Watson (currently at the University of Aberdeen) has...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Article by Rance Darity. “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Review by Robert Orlando. John G. Gager (Oxford University Press), 2000, 198 pp. Another...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Review by Robert Egolf. John G. Gager, William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Princeton...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Written by Wan Chee Keong. Traditionally, justification has been understood as God’s once-for...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Written by Edward L. Hamilton. When comparing the message of Jesus in the gospels with that of...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Written by Edward L. Hamilton. What is grace, and why should we know about it? Grace is the...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Written by Pamela Eisenbaum. In Paul Among Jews and Gentiles...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Written by Wan Chee Keong. If E.P. Sanders’ characterization of first century...
This article was originally part of The Paul Page, a site dedicated to academic study of the apostle, with special focus on the work of N.T. Wright. Embedded in the text of Romans, Galatians, Hebrews and other New Testament writings is an...