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The book that a friend and I have been working on part time for the last six years (!) is finally published. Moral Transformation: The Origi...

Douglas Campbell's 1000-page tome, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul is finally available . It ...

I just came across the most wonderful article on the interpretation of pistis christou in Romans: Douglas A. Campbell, “The Faithfulness of...

Something I've found greatly helps me understand different scholars interpretation of Paul's theology are 'Just So' stories....

Mainstream modern bible translations do two things very well. 1) Textual Criticism - getting the original letters right There is widespread ...

People seem to have very different ideas about what 'faith' means. Everyone seems to think their view is obvious. I enjoy reading di...

When studying the history of doctrine it is traditional to label different periods during which doctrine was relatively stable and refer to ...

Stanley Stowers' A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews and Gentiles is an insightful introduction to the ancient concept of "Speech...

The incredibly strong similarities between Romans 1:18-32 and Wisdom of Solomon 13-14 have long been noted by scholars. Paul appears to be d...

McGrath explains that the criteria used throughout the Reformation period to distinguish Protestant from Catholic was the question of wheth...

In McGrath's book on justification he mentioned a person who caught my interest: Gotthelf Samuel Steinbart (1738-1809) was one of the f...

I like studying doctrinal history, and understanding how, when, and why, different Christian doctrines and ideas have changed over time. As ...

I recently read Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification (Third Edition) by Alister McGrath. Overall, it's no...

Roger Pearse of Tertullian.org and the Thoughts on Antiquity blog has done a lot of great work over the years in making English translati...

I am still intrigued at an interpretation of the parable of the wheat and chaff I read a while ago. In the parable, a weed is spotted by the...