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  • The Marcion Problem: Canon and Literature Formation (Part III)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope and his influence of the formation of the New Testament canon. Common to the perspectives of Knox, Tyson, and Price is that Marcion not only formed the notion of a Christian canon, but also influenced the writing of the canonical Luke-Acts and conceptions…

  • Book Review: Richard John Neuhaus (Boyagoda)

    Biographies are intensely personal affairs, filled with the often mundane details purporting to tell the life story of some person of alleged importance. Occasionally, however, a figure of true influence will come along and change the world. In the American context, such figures have often been religious or political leaders, those two realms of discourse…

  • Recommended Reading: July 18-24

    If you engage one article this week, read After Obergefell: Prospects, Predictions, Program by Peter Leithart. If you’ve got more time to read the following selections from around the blogosphere. As always, if you think there is something else I should be reading, feel free to let me know in the comments section below.

  • Did God Command Genocide? (Part VI)

    This is the final post in a series examining whether or not God commanded Israel to commit genocide in the conquest of the Promised Land. A Way Forward Given Ancient Near East warfare terminology, “driving out” language, and an emphasis on the destruction of the heads of state, it seems that the vast majority of…

  • Did God Command Genocide? (Part V)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining whether or not God commanded Israel to commit genocide in the conquest of the Promised Land. The Total Destruction of Ai What about those instances where near-total destruction—including women, children, and non-combatants—does seem to be ordered by Yahweh? As an example of this, let’s consider Joshua…

  • Did God Command Genocide? (Part IV)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining whether or not God commanded Israel to commit genocide in the conquest of the Promised Land. The Context of Conquest Several texts can be submitted as examples of where Yahweh seems to have commanded the people of Israel to commit genocide. One such place is Exodus…

  • The Marcion Problem: Canon and Literature Formation (Part II)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope and his influence of the formation of the New Testament canon. Joseph Tyson Following Knox’s perspective is Joseph Tyson’s work Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle, in which Tyson argues argues for a late compositional dating of Luke-Acts as a response to Marcion…

  • Book Review: The Radical Question, A Radical Idea (Platt)

    David Platt, senior pastor of The Church at Brook Hills (New Orleans, LA) and author of New York Times Bestselling books, Radical and Radical Together, combined the concepts from his earlier books and created a short and easy-to-read edition: The Radical Question, A Radical Idea. In this version of Platt’s ‘radical’ message, he calls the…

  • Recommended Reading: July 11-17

    If you read one article this week, engage Not Just Another Culture War Story by Dominic Bouck. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the selections below from around the internet. As always, if there is anything else that I should be reading, feel free to let me know in…

  • Did God Command Genocide? (Part III)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining whether or not God commanded Israel to commit genocide in the conquest of the Promised Land. Ancient Near East Warfare Terminology Most important for our purposes is considering the language of the conquest narratives in Deuteronomy and Joshua, especially in light of other passages which can…