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Anglicanism as we think of it today is essentially a nineteenth-century invention. The elements that make it up are much older than that, of course, but it was only from the 1830s or so that the particular configuration that Christianity assumed in the post-Reformation Church of England and its sister churches came to be regarded
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Common grace in business: putting these four words together implies a link between theology and enterprise, the existence of which is barely evident from the output of most theologians and business writers. The long-standing paucity of engagement between these groups reinforces the widespread perception that trying to mix commerce and religion is like trying to
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Formally, like all the Gospels, John’s Gospel is anonymous. Unlike the New Testament letters, it doesn’t start out by saying, for example, “I, the apostle John, wrote this Gospel.” That’s because a Gospel is not person-to-person or person-to-group communication like an epistle is. Rather, as Richard Bauckham and others have argued in The Gospels for
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Evil is predominantly found to refer to anything that departs from God and his good ways established in creation and in covenant. The shortest definition of evil is a violation of divine design. However, this does not fully account for covenant, the broad range of meaning of the lexeme רע (evil), or the role of
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The book of Job is regularly called a theodicy. Yet if by “theodicy” one means an answer to that age-old dilemma, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” then the label does not fit very well. The answer to human suffering is glaringly absent. But if it is taken to mean the vindication of
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The Lived Theology series explores aspects of Christian doctrine through the eyes of the men and women who practiced it. These books illuminate the vital contributions made by these figures throughout the history of the church. In this new interview, we talk with Michael Haykin, series editor of the Lived Theology series, about what we
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Daniel is one of the most disputed books in the Hebrew Bible. To most theological conservatives, the book of Daniel gives historically reliable accounts of Daniel and his friends and contains genuine, detailed, and remarkably fulfilled prophecies. To critical scholars it is a work of fiction with many historical errors and prophecies that are only
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While Genesis 1 establishes Yahweh as the sovereign Creator and enthroned King, Genesis 2–3 lays the cornerstone of how Yahweh is the covenantal Lord of the Hebrews. These chapters connect the work of God done for Israel in the exodus to God’s work with Adam and Eve. They link Israel’s story with that of the
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The Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary (EBTC) series reveals how every passage in the Bible fits into God’s drama of redemption—and the role you play in his story today. Scholarly exegesis, biblical theology, and life application come together in a new commentary series on every book of the Bible. The first four volumes in the EBTC
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