I reckon I’m going to have to save up for this one. It’s a pretty hefty one in price, but I imagine worth it.
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Mar 18 2010
Free podcasts of Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology
If you want, you can download lots of free podcasts on Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology:
Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology – Download free podcast episodes by Apologetics315.com on iTunes..
Mar 16 2010
Revelation 21.24 – Textual Variant That Makes a Difference
Most textual variants simply do not make a difference to doctrine, however, there is one which I believe does have something significant about it.
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Mar 12 2010
Brian McLaren on Hell
Brian has some questions on hell, and perhaps you could answer them:
Mar 12 2010
On Development of Hell in the East and the West
Once upon a time, all of Christianity was united and believed everything the exact same way. Not really.
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Mar 12 2010
Hellish Podcasts – Glenn Peoples
He actually did a three part podcast series on hell in the early days of his blog.
He also had an article published in Response to Robert Peterson’s case against annihilationism (see here).
Mar 11 2010
NT Wright on Paul on Aristotle
“I think if we’d asked St. Paul what he thought about Aristotle and his scheme of the virtues, he would have said about it roughly what he said about the Jewish law: it is fine up to a point and as far as it goes, but it can’t actually give what it promises. It’s like a signpost pointing in more or less the right direction (though it will need some adjustment), but without a road that actually goes there” (36).
Read the entire article on NT Wright and Grace:
Mar 11 2010
Difficult Verses: 1st Timothy 4:10
This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers. (1Ti 4:10 NLT)
I want to follow the same method which I used with John 12.32.
Mar 11 2010
N.T. Wright on the Resurrection, Heaven and Hell
Thought this might be interesting to a few -
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Mar 10 2010
“Universalism: a historical survey” – Richard Bauckham
The history of the doctrine of universal salvation (or apokastastasis) is a remarkable one. Until the nineteenth century almost all Christian theologians taught the reality of eternal torment in hell. Here and there, outside the theological mainstream, were some who believed that the wicked would be finally annihilated (in its commonest form. this is the doctrine of ‘conditional immortality’).1 Even fewer were the advocates of universal salvation, though these few included same major theologians of the early church. Eternal punishment was firmly asserted in official creeds and confessions of the churches.2 It must have seemed as indispensable a part of universal Christian belief as the doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation. Since 1800 this situation has entirely changed, and no traditional Christian doctrine has been so widely abandoned as that of eternal punishment.3 Its advocates among theologians today must be fewer than ever before. The alternative interpretation of hell as annihilation seems to have prevailed even among many of the more conservative theologians.4 Among the less conservative, universal salvation, either as hope or as dogma, is now so widely accepted that many theologians assume it virtually without argument.
You can read the rest here:
“Universalism: a historical survey” by Richard Bauckham.
It is not the best that I have read from Bauckham, honestly. I haven’t written a history of it, but here are some early Christians – before Origen, who were leaning universalists.
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