Tag Archives: Paul

Book Write-Up: Justification, by N.T. Wright

Posted on May 2, 2016 by

N.T. Wright.  Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision.  With a New Introduction.  Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2016.  See here to buy the book. This book is a 2016 reprint of N.T. Wright’s 2009 book on justification.  It has a new … Continue reading →

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Book Write-Up: God of Promise, by Michael Horton

Posted on February 5, 2016 by

Michael Horton.  God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006. I decided to check this book out of the library after reading a book about dispensationalism.  Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology are rival ways of conceptualizing God’s purposes in … Continue reading →

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II Baruch, “Soon” Eschatology, and Grace and Works

Posted on September 2, 2015 by

I read II Baruch recently for my daily quiet time.  Scholar A.F.J. Klijn in my Charlesworth Pseudepigrapha dates II Baruch to the early second century C.E.  It is a Jewish work.  I have two items about II Baruch: one about … Continue reading →

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Extremely Scattered Ramblings on Accountability to God

Posted on April 12, 2015 by

This is another post that draws from Brian Morley’s Mapping Apologetics.  It is not my official review, though.  For my official review, I’ll probably make a few comments, then link to my posts about the book. Although this particular post … Continue reading →

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Book Write-Up: The Opponents of Paul in Second Corinthians

Posted on May 26, 2014 by

Dieter Georgi.  The Opponents of Paul in Second Corinthians.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986. This book is a 1986 English translation of Georgi’s 1964 work in German, with new epilogues in which Georgi clarifies and refines his positions.  The book is … Continue reading →

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John and Realized Eschatology

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

For my write-up today on Lee Harmon’s John’s Gospel: The Way It Happened, I’ll use as my starting-point something that I wrote in a post a while back, when I was blogging through volume 4 of John Meier’s A Marginal … Continue reading →

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