Exploring the origins of the New Testament canon and other biblical and theological issues
Note: This is the fourth installment of a blog series announced here. The date of the NT canon is one of the most controversial questions in biblical studies today. As a prior post indicated, part of the answer to the question of date is … [Continue reading]
Reformation 21, the website of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, just posted my interview with Derek Thomas on my new book, Canon Revisited. I appreciate Derek's invitation to do this interview--it was an interesting discussion on a number … [Continue reading]
One of my favorite childhood memories is watching the movie Star Wars in the theater in 1977. I (along with an entire nation) was awestruck. Nothing like that had ever been done before. We were all sucked into a new world of spaceships, light … [Continue reading]
As Romans 7 reminds us, even believers like the apostle Paul continue to struggle with sin in this life. Progress in holiness is really possible by God's wonderful grace (see prior post on that issue here), but we will never be fully rid of sin … [Continue reading]
I've spent the last week or so diving deeply (again) into the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. The Apostolic Fathers are an informal collection of early Christian writings, roughly 95-150 AD, which include books like the Didache, 1 & 2 … [Continue reading]
