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  • The Marcion Problem: Tertullian (Part II)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope and his influence on the development of the New Testament canon. From Tertullian’s writings emerge several implications for Marcion’s conceptions of scripture, canon, and authority. First, from his Prescription against Heresies it seems that Marcion in some way undermined the existing authority structures…

  • Book Review: Decoding Nicea (Pavao)

    The history of Christianity can be a complex, confusing subject, full of competing claims and interpretations. Perhaps no single event in the life of the Church gathers as much contemplation and controversy as the Council of Nicea. Held in 325 CE outside of the newly established capital city of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul), this gathering…

  • Recommended Reading: May 30 – June 5

    If you read one article this week, engage The Neglected God by Timothy George. For those of you with more reading time this weekend, check out the following suggestions from around the blogosphere. As always, if you think there’s something else I should be reading, feel free to let me know in the comments section…

  • Reflections on the May Biblical Studies Carnival

    Claude Mariottini has posted the May Biblical Studies Carnival over at his website — I would encourage you to visit his post and check out the very best of the Biblioblogging world from this past month. I reproduce here some of Dr. Mariottini’s opening comments, which I reflect upon below.

  • The Early Church and the Trinity

    This past Sunday was Trinity Sunday for many Christians, very often the day of the year when the Trinitarian nature of God and Christian theology are most clearly discussed. This post reflects on how the early Church grappled with the complexities of Trinitarian theology. The doctrine of the Trinity–espoused by the Cappadocian Fathers as “God…

  • Textual Plurality and Biblical Interpretation

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Ephrem the Syrian and early Syrian Christianity. This article reflects upon considerations of textual plurality and biblical interpretation as found in Lucas Van Rompay’s “The Christian Syriac Tradition of Interpretation”, James Kugel’s Traditions of the Bible, and the pseudepigraphal Jubilees. In each of these works there…

  • The Marcion Problem: Tertullian (Part I)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope and his influence on the development of the New Testament canon. In comparison to all other extant ancient works, the writings of Tertullian of Carthage against Marcion remain the fullest and most precise rejection of Marcion’s theology. Tertullian composed as least six works…

  • Book Review: The NIV Proclamation Bible

    Writing a book review on a book of such importance as the Bible constitutes a unique experience regardless of how many times one has undertaken the process. Most book reviews focus on the meaning, implications, and history behind the content of a publication. With the Christian Bible, however, these tasks are insurmountable in a single…

  • Recommended Reading: May 23-29

    If you engage one article this week, read The Positive Vocation of Celibacy: An Interview with Dr. Wesley Hill by George Aldhizer. If you have more time to read this weekend, check out the suggestions below, gleaned from around the internet over the course of this past week. As always, if you think there is…

  • On the Incarnation

    C. S. Lewis once said that if the incarnation happened, “it was the central event in the history of the earth.” What is the incarnation? And why has it been such an important area of theological consideration since the earliest days of Christianity? The term ‘incarnation’ may be defined as “a person who embodies in…