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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Book Write-Up: A Beautiful Reflection
Sarah O. Maddox. A Beautiful Reflection. Winchester, KY: Olivia Kimbrell Press, 2014. ISBN-10: 1939603293. ISBN-13: 978-1939603296. See here to purchase the book. A Beautiful Reflection is a Christian novella for young women. Its message is about the importance of Christians … Continue reading
Ramblings on The Devil’s Advocate and Demons Being Unafraid of the Bible
I watched the 1997 movie, The Devil’s Advocate, on Saturday night. In this movie, Keanu Reeves plays a hot-shot lawyer, Kevin Lomax, who moves from Florida with his wife to work at a New York City law firm. The head … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Movies, Religion
Tagged Al Pacino, Bible, Keanu Reeves, Religion, The Devil's Advocate, The Exorcist
Holy ‘Pactum Salutis’ Batman and Vanhoozer! Why Love is better than Law in the frame of Salvation
Originally posted on The Evangelical Calvinist:
There are many images, metaphors in the Bible to depict God’s relationship to his creation, humanity. There is the law-court imagery, the Shepherd-sheep picture, and so on and so forth. But what undergirds all…
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Early Manuscripts of Biblical Writings? What’s at Stake?
Originally posted on Larry Hurtado's Blog:
In light of the renewed hubbub about a supposed first-century fragment of the Gospel of Mark, I’ll offer some comments about why people get all excited (or exasperated) about the matter and other…
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Book Write-Up: Beyond Belief, by Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas. New York: Vintage Books, 2003. Elaine Pagels is a professor of religion at Princeton University. I have read two of her other books, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent and The Origin … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, David Marshall, Religion
Tagged Beyond Belief, david marshall, Elaine Pagels
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