“…the physical nature of faith is audible: how, if you ever get even a taste of it, you feel it in your bones. And in your extremities, and in your senses, and in your reflexes. Religious music that doesn’t convey this aspect of faith isn’t necessarily a failure; I’m not about to condemn Gregorian chant [...]

Author: Brian S. Rosner
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN: 9780802833747
214 pages, paperback.
Several years ago I lived near a medium-sized city that was scheduled to get a new shopping mall. The area already had two or three of the typical 1980s shoe box malls, but the new one was supposed to be as high above them as they were over [...]

First off, sorry for all the acronyms in the post title. Perhaps it is fitting, though, to use “insider” acronyms concerning an issue that, at the end of the day, really only involves a tiny corner patch in the midst of the vast acreage of God’s vineyard. If most or all of those acronyms mean [...]

Taylor Marshall on Canterbury Tales Blog has a quick review of Pope Benedict XVI’s new book Jesus of Nazareth. Of particular interest to Westminster Theological Seminary students will be the Pope’s responses to the main points of Rabbi Jacob Neusner’s A Rabbi Talks to Jesus, required reading in Professor Stephen Taylor’s New Testament Introduction class.

Federal Vision theology, which was on almost no one’s radar screen before 2002, has erupted in the short time since into one of the biggest controversies in recent memory among conservative Presbyterian denominations. Because I constantly run across fellow seminarians and laypeople alike asking me what FV is all about, I provide the following relevant [...]

It’s Van Til spinning madly in his grave.

My every-so-often accumulation of “stuff” I find on the web:

Sermons: longer=better? (HT: Mark Horne)
Derek Webb in USA Today
See the history of major world religions in 90 seconds.
Should creeds & confessions be revised? Carl Trueman has reservations, but Matt Bucherri says, “Au contraire.”

I’m engaged in an interesting little debate with our good friend Ros over at her I Have a Question blog. Ros is agreeing with James Jordan that women cannot be pastors in Christian churches because the office of pastor is the New Covenant equivalent of the Old Covenant priesthood. Since (according to Jordan, following Meredith [...]

Faith is one of those words I have struggled with for a long time. As a person of the Reformed persuasion, sola fide is supposed to be the cheer for my team (although I think sometimes semper fi would be better). But what is faith? Reformed theology tells us that you can’t be justified [...]

“From Calvin’s point of view, believing in the existence of God on the basis of rational argument is like believing in the existence of your spouse on the basis of the analogical argument for other minds - whimsical at best and not at all likely to delight the person concerned.” - Alvin Plantinga.