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Alvin Plantinga

Plantinga on Personal Identity

Against materialism Alvin Plantinga argues for the position that self cannot be identified strictly with body. Do you think the argument is sound?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOTn_wRwDE0

Listen Up!

Listen Up! A Great Deal on a New Book

This Wednesday (9/22) we will be launching a 48-hour sale on an important booklet. Listen Up! is short (only 31 pages), accessible, and addresses a topic vital to the health … Read more→

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Who Wrote It? – Inerrancy

Comment if you think you can identify who wrote the following on inerrancy.  No cheating with searches, etc.
Therefore, since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be … Read more→

Rahner and Vorgrimler on Sanctifying Grace

While perusing a used bookshop in Philadelphia this week, I stumbled upon a theological dictionary compiled by Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler.  Titled Kleines Theologisches Wörterbuch in the original German, … Read more→

The Law of Centralization

The Law of Centralization is a key feature of Deuteronomic and Deuteronomistic theology.  It stems from the polemical and apologetic thrust of Deuteronomy’s monotheism.  YHWH is God, he is the … Read more→

Martin Noth

Deuteronomy and the History Books

Martin Noth developed an extraordinarily influential hypothesis regarding the shape and function of Deuteornomy and the books of Joshua-Kings.  His view (or at least versions of it) has received a … Read more→

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What is Torah?

Strictly speaking, Torah is law.  It is the codification of God’s commands so that his chosen people would live faithfully.  In the Old Testament canon, Torah is considered as the … Read more→

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Zion Theology

The Zion tradition or Zion theology is a development in redemptive-history that casts the hope of God’s blessing upon the place of Mt. Zion.  The tradition is based on the … Read more→

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Reformed Forum iPhone App

I am very pleased to announce the new Reformed Forum iPhone app.  We have been hard at work on this for several months, and finally, the app has been approved in … Read more→

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The Catholic Future

Thirty-eight years ago David Wells published Revolution in Rome, a book designed to help Protestants get a handle on recent developments in Roman Catholic doctrine.  The Second Vatican Council concluded … Read more→