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 considered to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, we must profess of the books of scripture that they teach with certainty, with fidelity and [...]

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, I happened upon the Herder and Herder English edition from 1965.  Out of curiosity, I quickly made my way to the entry on “sanctifying grace.” [...]

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 only (Deut 4:32-40).  There is none other.  The earlier sections of Deuteronomy are concerned to distinguish YHWH and appropriate worship from all other deities worshiped [...]

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 grand reception, so much so there is a general consensus among biblical scholars – a feat many would consider practically impossible. Noth built upon the [...]

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 Pentateuch – or Genesis through Deuteronomy.  It is a collection of historical accounts and precepts recorded for the people of God. In a more theological [...]

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 storyline of David as he progresses as king of Israel.  David is anointed king of Judah in 2 Samuel 2 as a king of God’s [...]

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 the Apple App Store.  I am very proud to say that Kelly Bucey has developed the app from scratch.  Whereas many Christian ministry apps are [...]

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 in 1965 and Rome’s progressive theologians were left with an open field of creative theological opportunities.  In the years following Vatican II, Catholic theologians thought [...]

On our way home from Illinois, my wife and I passed through a tollway in Indiana with an abundance of dollar coins.  Having only a $20 bill, the machine promptly threw to me 13 dollar coins bearing the faces of Susan B. Anthony and several presidents.  Inscribed on the rim of the newer presidential dollars [...]

Nicholas Carr has written a new book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains.  The book is an expansion of his Atlantic Monthly article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”  The thesis is that the Internet, by virtue of what it is fundamentally, is altering the way its users’ brains function. Given the [...]