Book Review Posts
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February 23, 2010
The Faith of Jesus Christ, Sprinkle and Bird
The new book edited by Preston Sprinkle (one of our SAET Fellows) and Michael Bird, The Faith of Jesus Christ: Exegetical, Biblical, and Theological Studies (Hendrickson, 2010) is now available. The book tackles the pistis christou debate, and has a great line-up of contributors. My reading list tends to bounce back and forth between historical/systematic theology and New Testament studies related to justification. I’ve not dug deeply into this …
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February 16, 2010
Bargerhuff, The Love that Rescues
Eric Bargerhuff, one of our SAET Fellows, has just announced the release of his book on church discipline, Love That Rescues: God’s Fatherly Love in the Practice of Church Discipline (Wipf and Stock). Every pastor needs to think carefully and biblically about this important topic. I encourage you to pick up a copy. The book’s description is below:
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In an age where “church discipline” has fallen out of favor in … -
December 18, 2009
Thielicke on the (Ecclesial) Theologian
“Insofar as we are determined to be true theologians, we think within the community of God’s people, and for that community, and in the name of that community; – how shall I say? – we think as a part of the community itself.”
and again,
“I should like to add to all this that the church has the prior right to question us, even if it does not and cannot understand the details of our work; …
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October 31, 2009
Raising Purity Book Give-Away
I’m pleased to announce the re-release of my book Raising Purity: Helping Parents Understand the Bible’s Perspective on Sex, Dating, and Relationships. This is a revised and expanded version of the original, and, I think, is significantly improved in a few key areas. To give you a sense of what the book is about, here’s the copy from the back cover:
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October 4, 2009
Who Cares What Calvin Thought? (The Church, That’s Who)
Despite their comments earlier in the book, Bradley and Muller acknowledge the difficulty of achieving total objectivity in historical studies, and indeed, affirm the importance of having a sense of involvement in and with the events of history. “Objectivity in historical studies does not, and cannot, exist if it is defined as an absence of involvement with or opinion about the materials.”
This is more reasonable, even if out of step with their earlier comments. But what the right hand gives, the left hand takes away. Bradley and Muller go …
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September 30, 2009
The Christian Historian as Christian or Scientist? Bradley and Muller on Historical Method
In their book, Introduction to Church History, Bradley and Muller argue for a form of methodological agnosticism regarding historical method. For Bradley and Muller, failure to suspend one’s Christian commitments too easily leads to a tainted reading of the data. Thus the “scientific investigation” done by Christian scholars in the seminaries should not be substantively different than the historical method done by secular scholars in the universities.
To make their point, Bradley and Muller point to Catholic historical reflection prior to the mid-eighteenth century, noting that “it was almost invariably written …
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September 3, 2009
Bray on the Pastor-Theologian
In a response to Tom Wright’s book on justification, Gerald Bray chastises Wright for producing a book that has “let us down badly” and is “full of digressions, personal anecdotes which appear to have no purpose other than to win sympathy for the author, and random attacks against unnamed people who are supposed to be typical of popular modern Evangelicals.” In short, Bray didn’t care for the book.
Aside from the caustic tone of the review (and to be fair, Wright’s tone wasn’t always particularly charitable in his book), …
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July 3, 2009
Doug Sweeney on Jonathan Edwards: A “Priestly Theologian”
Doug Sweeney (senior consultant for the SAET’s 2009 Symposium) is one of today’s leading Edwards scholars. I had the good fortune of taking his class on Edwards while at TEDS, so when I heard about his new book Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word (IVP Academic), I quickly snatched up a copy and read it. If you haven’t had much exposure to Edwards, this is a great book. It tops out …
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Welcome to saet-online.org, the online home of The Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET). The SAET is an organization dedicated to assisting pastor-theologians in producing biblical and theological scholarship for the renewal of orthodox theology, for the renewal of the church.
Operating within the historic evangelical tradition, the SAET believes the contemporary bifurcation between the pastoral calling and theological formation has resulted in the loss of a distinctly ecclesial voice in orthodox theology. The SAET seeks to resurrect this voice...(continue reading)Recent Posts
- Pastor-Theologians and Academic Theologians: Toward a Healthy Division of Labor
- The Faith of Jesus Christ, Sprinkle and Bird
- The Pastor-Theologian as Ecclesial Theologian
- Bargerhuff, The Love that Rescues
- Two Birds With One “Pastor-as-Ecclesial-Theologian” Stone
- New Digs for the SAET Site
- Biblical Evidence that Pastors Are Called to Serve as Wider Theologians: Part 2
- Jenson on Prolegomena
- Newly Updated Fellowship Prospectus
- Biblical Evidence that Pastors Are Called to Serve as Wider Theologians: Part 1
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