These are essays and bibliographies of a theological nature, listed alphabetically by title. The criterion of their selection is you. When people request information from me, I go ahead and load it here, both for them and others who may be interested. If the files contain much Greek or Hebrew, I load them as PDF files so you can read them. Some of these have appeared in published form; if interested in the proper citation, consult my c.v. in the menu above. A number of theological files related to Paul and the Law, and/or the New Perspective on Paul, may be found under my Senior Seminar folder under "Courses." The links file contains links either to resources or blogs.
Theology
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Abraham and Sinai Contrasted |
Five contrasts between these two covenants in Galatians 3 |
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Auburn Theology |
Concessions and concerns regarding Auburn theology |
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Auburn Theology Pro/Con |
Lecture Outline from Grove City College, Dec. 2, 2009 |
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Big Book Fallacy |
Factual errors in reputable sources |
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Church and State |
Religious arguments for their separation |
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Decline of Christianity |
Has Christianity declined in the West? |
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Equipping Ministry? |
Ephesians 4 does not teach that ministers equip saints |
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Evangelistic Responsibility |
A refutation of the common belief that all believers are to evangelize |
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Gal. 3 and Office-holding |
Questions whether Gal. 3:28 says anything at all about office-holding |
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God or god at John 1:1 |
Contra Jehovah's Witnesses,θεός occurs over 250 times in the NT without a definite article, and their own translation in these places translates "God" not "god." With complete citation of every example. |
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Holy Spirit & Bible Interpretation |
What role the Holy Spirit does (and does not) play in interpreting, understanding, or receiving the Holy Scriptures |
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Insufficiency of Scripture |
The Scriptures are sufficient for some things; not sufficient for those things known by natural revelation |
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Käsemann and the NPP |
NPP authors are aware of the influence of E. P. Sanders, but appear to be less aware of Ernst Käsemann's influence; yet I believe he is possibly more influential than Sanders, and far more erroneous. |
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New Perspectives on Paul |
An Introductory Overview of the New Perspectives on Paul. My lecture on the topic can be found here. |
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Small Group Study? |
Explores the erroneous assumptions that often lie beneath "small-group" study |
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Special Revelation |
Distinguishes special and general revelation, and argues that the former was public (not private) and occasional/epochal (not durative) |
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Theonomy WTJ |
My critique of Theonomy from WTJ in 1994 |
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Theonomy not Reformed |
Quotations from Calvin and other orthodox Reformed writers, refuting the notion that the civil law bound any nations but the Israelite theocracy |
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Tithe |
A brief argument, from scripture and orthodox reformed thinkers (and the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1854) that the tithe was a levitical institution that disappeared with the levitical priesthood. The 1854 GA called it "presumption" to require it. |
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Trent's Anathemas |
This is a citation of the 39 anathemas that the Roman Catholic Council at Trent directed at Protestants, with an single-paragraph introduction. |
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Van Til & Theonomy |
From the Festschrift for Meredith G. Kline, my argument that Kline was not theonomic but Vosian in his OT hermeneutic |
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Wright |
My critique of N. T. Wright's understanding of δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ in Rom. 1:16 |
Ecclesiology: Worship, Polity, Discipline |
Files related to worship, polity, and discipline. The files collected here are the result of years of studying ecclesiology. I get frequent requests for some of the handouts I distributed when teaching Presbyterian Polity and Worship at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, but those files, while compiled and photocopied in one place for my students, were never collated into one document. Some of those, and a few others, will make there way here as I have time. |