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Is Numbers 5 Unfair to Women?
Author. Ruth Preston | Publication Date. 03/05/2012
A friend sent me an email last month asking this question. Unless you have memorised the Old Testament, which most of us haven’t, I think I should explain the problem. I’ll do this by...
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The Essence Of Emergent?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 16/04/2012
The emergent movement has always been a bit of a mystery to me, and there are probably a bunch of reasons for that. I’m a church leader, and emergent types don’t generally (other than a...
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Doug Campbell: Do You Read Romans Like An Arian?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 28/03/2012
One of the world's most brilliant New Testament scholars thinks your and my readings of Romans have been thoroughly infused with Arianism. (By the way, this post is at the most academic end...
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Vagabonds
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 26/03/2012
Hardly anybody writes songs from the synoptic gospels. I don't know if you'd noticed that. Christian hymnody has known what to do with the Psalms, the prophets, the epistles and even...
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The Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible: An Observer’s Comments
Author. Ruth Preston | Publication Date. 03/03/2012
I like studying other religions. In the past I have found that I have grown in my understanding of the grace of Christ and the relevance of Biblical ethics when comparing them to other...
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Why it Matters That Paul Wrote the Pastoral Epistles
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 30/01/2012
It has become increasingly fashionable in the last generation, particularly in academic circles, to argue that Paul was not really preaching a message of personal salvation, but of...
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Universalists Have a Point
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 04/01/2012
Most heresies have a strong point. That's how they convince people that they're not heresies. Marcionism came about because there is, to be fair, a significant difference in redemptive...
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Did Matthew Misquote Jeremiah?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 07/11/2011
The pedantic ones among us tend to worry when we find the New Testament writers sourcing things to one prophet when they were actually uttered by another one. Like Matthew 27:9-10, for...
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Calvinism and the Glory of God
Author. Andy Johnston | Publication Date. 01/11/2011
By the time Calvin published the definitive edition of the Institutes some 23 years later after the original 1536 edition, after undergoing five revisions and expansions, their final form...
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Theology and Preaching in Calvin’s Ministry
Author. Andy Johnston | Publication Date. 18/10/2011
Above everything else he achieved theologically, it was the Institutes which first established Calvin's theological reputation, and it is the Institutes which still today he is best known...
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Why did God put the Tree in the Garden?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 12/10/2011
I’m not sure what the hardest biblical question of all time is, but any shortlist has to include this one: why did God put the tree in the garden?
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Time to Declare the ‘Jubilee’ – part 2
Author. Martin Charlesworth | Publication Date. 11/10/2011
In my first article on this subject I traced a few steps in my growing understanding of the possible connection of the Old Testament “year of Jubilee” with the church.
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Time to declare the Jubilee part 1
Author. Martin Charlesworth | Publication Date. 07/10/2011
One of the highlights of my university career was getting to hear the teaching of some of the best known names in the evangelical church at the time (and before you ask, it was rather a...
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An Eastern Orthodox Howitzer
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 05/10/2011
The last few Wednesdays’ posts have represented something of an evangelical intramural, so how about an Eastern Orthodox philosopher to fire his apologetics howitzer at us? David Bentley...
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The Bible made Impossible
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 07/09/2011
Last week, I argued that the doctrine of Scripture was going to be the key theological debate of the next generation, and that three questions required particular thought and attention. The...
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The Biggest Theological Debate of the Next Twenty Years
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 31/08/2011
I’ve never been very good at gazing into the crystal ball, so my predictions for the future probably aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Nevertheless, I’m going to stick my...
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The Bible’s Buried Secrets: Did King David’s Empire Exist? Pt3
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 02/07/2011
Part Three – Support for situating the United Monarchy at the Late Bronze–Iron Age Transition
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The Bible’s Buried Secrets: Did King David’s Empire Exist? Pt2
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 01/07/2011
Part Two – A Possible Solution to the Israelite Dark Age
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The Bible’s Buried Secrets: Did King David’s Empire Exist? Pt1
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 30/06/2011
In the first episode of the series of programmes, Francesca chose to start with the subject that has constituted the greatest controversy for Old Testament scholarship in the last twenty...
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Buried Secrets: The Real Garden of Eden
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 21/06/2011
Francesca’s third episode of her Old Testament series was based around the interesting suggestion that the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was in fact simply a sixth century...
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Buried Secrets. Did God Have a Wife? Pt2
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 18/06/2011
Asherah as God’s Wife?
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Buried Secrets. Did God Have a Wife? Pt1
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 18/06/2011
The second episode of this series looks at the whole issue of monotheism in ancient Israel, a subject about which much has been written because it is such a unique concept in the ancient...
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Buried Secrets? Responses to Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 16/06/2011
General comments on BBC2's “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” television series.
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Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 23/05/2011
We really are in the ‘year of the Bible’. Everybody’s talking about it, quoting it, and making TV shows about it. Christopher Hitchens wrote a very positive piece about it in Vanity...
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Steve Chalke: Is the Bible infallible?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 06/04/2011
Sometimes, apologetics involves answering tough questions asked by Christians, and even responding to arguments mounted by Christian leaders in Christian publications. In a short piece two...
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In Praise of the Highlighter Pen
Author. Mick Taylor | Publication Date. 04/04/2011
Missing the wood for the trees is easily done when studying scripture. You can get so locked into a few words or sentences that the major themes of book and its overriding purpose get lost...
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Interpretation, Preaching and the Olympic Logo
Author. Adrian Birks | Publication Date. 07/03/2011
A couple of days ago the Iranian Olympic Committee lodged a protest claiming that the 2012 London Olympic Games logo conceals the word ‘Zion’ and is therefore racist and discriminatory...
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A Preacher’s Dilemma
Author. Mick Taylor | Publication Date. 28/01/2011
Preachers face many subtle temptations. One would be to allow the apparent needs of the congregation to determine the weight given to any options when interpreting a passage of Scripture -...
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