Archive for August, 2006

Google Earth Bible Map

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

File this under Way Cool…If you have the Google Earth program, you can now download this file and see the locations of over 200 named places in the Bible. A team is working to pinpoint the actual sites (as opposed to modern similar named places) of all the named places in the Bible the location [...]

A Review of By Faith, Not by Sight by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. - Part IV

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Note: Part I of this review introduced the book and covered pages 1-26.
Part II covered pages 27-52. Part III covered all of the third section of the book (pp. 53-78).

4 - The Order of Salvation and Eschatology - II
In this final section of By Faith, Not by Sight, Dr. Gaffin turns to justification. As he [...]

Introducing Sacred Journey Marketplace

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Thanks to Amazon’s new aStore tool, I’ve built a little store of a few CD’s and books that mean a lot to me and that I’d like to suggest you try. It’s just a page of nine items, so it’s not an overwhelming browsing experience. I’ll probably swap new items in and out periodically. Mostly [...]

A Review of By Faith, Not by Sight by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. - Part III

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Note: Part I of this review introduced the book and covered pages 1-26.
Part II covered pages 27-52.
3 - The Order of Salvation and Eschatology - I
In the remaining two sections of the book Dr. Gaffin explores the implications of what he has proposed as the “center” of Paul’s theology in the first two parts: the [...]

A Review of By Faith, Not by Sight by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. - Part II

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Note: Part I of this review introduced the book and covered pages 1-26.
In pages 26-30, under the heading “According to the Scriptures,” Gaffin introduces the eschatological, “already/not yet” schema that is key to his conceptualization of justification. Working from Galatians 1:4 and Ephesians 1:21, he posits a “two-age” construction of all of history: “this age” [...]

A Review of By Faith, Not by Sight by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. - Part I

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Note: This review begins with the introduction I had previously written, here slightly modified.
Westminster Bookstore has received the first copies of what is surely our most anticipated book of the year: By Faith, Not by Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation by Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., head of the systematic theology department at [...]

If Jireh Were a WTS Student

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Here’s Jireh Walden at the beginning of a new semester at Westminster Theological Seminary:

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…and here he is after doing all the assigned reading!

Grandson Seámus Hits Terrible Twos

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Seámus 2nd Birthday - Aug 26, 2006
Aug 26, 2006 - 53 Photos

Justin Taylor on the Emerging Church

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

In preparation for the upcoming conference on the Emerging Church to be held at Westminster Theological Seminary I do not think you could do better than An Emerging Church Primer by Justin Taylor. This article is one of the most fair and balanced critiques of the movement from a conservative Reformed perspective that I have [...]

Presbyterians & Presbyterians Together Again?

Friday, August 25th, 2006

This time, it’s the pictorial version!
HT: The Boneman