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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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Butterflies and the Afterlife
Author. Liam Thatcher | Publication Date. 23/04/2012
Say the word ‘heaven’ and you will conjure up a range of ideas and images from the saccharine to the absurd. To some it’s a non-existent crutch for weak people. For others, an...
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Leading to University?
Author. James Patrick | Publication Date. 17/04/2012
This is a response to Matthew’s recent post about how we define “leading” when it comes to theological study. It takes the form of a letter to a young person considering studying...
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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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Wot, no Ferrari?
Author. Jennie Pollock | Publication Date. 12/04/2012
In my last post I wrote about rejoicing in the Lord even when your circumstances aren’t perfect, and about the existence of a bigger, wider reality than human eyes can see. I also talked...
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Jesus On Sex
Author. Phil Moore | Publication Date. 10/04/2012
One of the most common questions I get asked as a church leader is "where in the Bible does Jesus actually say that sex outside of marriage is wrong?" The follow-up question is usually "Why...
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The Eucatastrophe of Easter
Author. Liam Thatcher | Publication Date. 06/04/2012
I’m sure the fact that Easter Sunday is fast approaching will not have eluded you entirely, but often if I’m honest, it can catch me off guard. There used to be a time when you could...
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Yet I Will Rejoice
Author. Jennie Pollock | Publication Date. 05/04/2012
It was one of those weeks, you know the ones, when you’re busy minding your own business and gradually become aware that Someone’s trying to tell you something.
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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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Should Tongues be Abolished?
Author. Adrian Birks | Publication Date. 27/03/2012
A brief look at 1 Corinthians 14:21-25.
Firstly, we should remind ourselves that spiritual gifts are given to the ‘the body of Christ’ for the building up of the church (12:12-20)....Read More
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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 Sidelining of Spiritual Gifts?
Author. Adrian Birks | Publication Date. 23/03/2012
In an increasing number of charismatic churches in the UK there appears to be a move away from encouraging the use of spiritual gifts (especially tongues) in public church meetings where...
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“They Devoted Themselves to the Breaking of Bread”
Author. Andy Johnston | Publication Date. 20/03/2012
We often like to think of ourselves as New Testament churches. Many of the first generation of Newfrontiers leaders and congregations came out of historical denominational churches because...
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The New Perspective: A Duffer’s Guide
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 14/03/2012
This is a post for people who prefer their theology oversimplified to overcomplicated, and who have heard of the so-called "New Perspective" on Paul and/or Judaism, but don't really know...
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What are the “Greater Works”?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 12/03/2012
A few months ago on this blog, the question was raised over what exactly Jesus meant when he said that anyone who believed in him would do “greater works” than Jesus himself had done....
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The not so Puritanical Puritans
Author. Dave Bish | Publication Date. 08/03/2012
If the Puritans are as warm-hearted as the picture painted by the preaching of Jeremiah Burroughs, why such a bad reputation for being mean-spirited and miserly?
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Does God Give and Take Away?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 22/02/2012
You've got to admire Ben Witherington. Not many evangelical academics have his range of learning, or his insight, and almost none have written commentaries on every book in the New...
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Luther on Breaking Bread
Author. Andy Johnston | Publication Date. 21/02/2012
“In the first part I have overthrown the devil’s ungodly un-Christian priesthood and also proved that the mass may not be called a sacrifice. I have stopped up the mouths of the...
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Was there Death Before the Fall?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 15/02/2012
Wherever I turn at the moment, I find myself being asked about death before the fall. Did it happen? If so, what do we make of God looking at everything he had made, and pronouncing it...
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Blessings and Woes in the Theology of Karl Barth
Author. Mark Amos | Publication Date. 14/02/2012
A number of times in posts on this blog the Swiss theologian Karl Barth has been referenced. Barth has been hugely influential in academic theology during the 20th Century, but has probably...
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Twelve Words, Twelve Interpretations: 1 Timothy 2:12
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 01/02/2012
There are at least twelve ways of understanding and applying 1 Timothy 2:12. That’s nothing if you compare it to Hebrews 6:4-6, for which there are at least eighteen, but it’s quite...
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Why I Am A Little Bit Reformed: Conclusions
Author. Andy Johnston | Publication Date. 31/01/2012
So, in conclusion, why am I Reformed? There is much more I could have said (and may do at a later date) about Calvin’s theology and about other Reformed pastors in the sixteenth and...
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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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Is Calvinism Incoherent?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 27/01/2012
The THINK conference is fast approaching (10th May), so I thought it might be worth explaining in a bit more detail what we are intending to think through together. Yes, I know it's about...
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Twenty Facts in the Gender Debate
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 18/01/2012
I’m going to make twenty statements, seventeen of which are fairly uncontroversial, two of which are disputed, and one of which is highly controversial. To call them ‘facts’ is,...
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Pistis Christou: A Pauline Bungle?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 09/01/2012
For a generation, the discussion has been raging in academic circles over whether the Greek phrase pistis Christou should be understood as meaning ‘faith in Christ’ or ‘faithfulness...
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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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The Gospels As Eyewitness Accounts
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 19/12/2011
Many readers of this blog will know of Richard Bauckham's magisterial book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, in which one of the world's leading New Testament scholars makes a compelling case...
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THINK Conference Bookings Now Open
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 14/12/2011
If the rumour mill is worth anything at all, some of you based in the UK may have heard of the THINK conference, which we’re running on 10 May 2012. Some of you may not, so I’ll...
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The Evangelical Rejection of Reason
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 23/11/2011
The New York Times recently published an article by Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens, entitled "The Evangelical Rejection of Reason", which in my opinion was both inflammatory and...
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“The Right to Bear the Sword the State has”
Author. Liam Thatcher | Publication Date. 22/11/2011
When asked where I stand on the subject of pacifism, I tend to say that I’m somewhere towards the non-violent end of the spectrum. When asked to elaborate, I admit that the primary reason...
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Geneva: A Blueprint for Reform
Author. Andy Johnston | Publication Date. 15/11/2011
Geneva was the base from which Calvin ministered for 25 years. He arrived there in August 1536 intending only to spend the night in the city. There was no reason for him to think any...
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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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The Theodicy Odyssey
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 02/11/2011
Mike Bird, over at Euangelion, suggests that the demand for a watertight theodicy in response to the problem of evil is logically incoherent. It’s not the first time the argument has been...
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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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Five Views On Justification
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 31/10/2011
Those who have been following the justification debate, as well as those who have been somewhat bamboozled by what exactly everyone is disagreeing about - I still think of the guy who asked...
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Reformed and Reforming
Author. Mark Amos | Publication Date. 24/10/2011
The recent posts and paper on the question of how reformed we are have been really engaging. One way in which the term reformed is used is to describe a theology that is strongly influenced...
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Roger Olson, Arminianism and the Death of Exegesis
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 19/10/2011
I'd always assumed that the differences between Calvinists and Arminians came down to exegesis.
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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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Is God a Moral Monster?
Author. Liam Thatcher | Publication Date. 17/10/2011
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty...
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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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Knowing and Understanding
Author. Matthew Hosier | Publication Date. 10/10/2011
A friend who has just started a theology degree emailed me the following questions. Before I respond to her I’d be interested in what the readers of this blog would say – so please...
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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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What’s RIGHT with Anabaptism?
Author. Andy Johnston | Publication Date. 30/08/2011
In this, my concluding blog on Anabaptism, I thought I would do something to redress the balance. My criticisms of Anabaptism up till now have not been motivated from a personal antipathy...
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Does the world need another blog?
Author. Matthew Hosier | Publication Date. 18/01/2011
At the time of writing there are 151,269,321 identifiable blogs on the internet, so objectively, the answer to the above question is “No.” Looking at one blog per minute every hour of...
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In the beginning there were… Bible teachers
Author. Mick Taylor | Publication Date. 17/01/2011
Over the last couple of years I have had the privilege of chairing the Newfrontiers Theology Forum. I discovered that in the beginning it had been set up simply as an informal group of...
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