Dan Phillips. The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Holding on Tight. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2011, 320 pages. Dan Phillips will likely be known to most readers of this humble blog. For years he’s been writing at Pyromaniacs as well as at his own blog, Biblical Christianity. He earned the M.Div. at Talbot [...]
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The World-Tilting Gospel–A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Calvinism, evangelicalism, Gospel, Gospel Centered, Imputation, justification, regeneration, Sanctification, soteriology, tagged Dan Phillips, The World-Tilting Gospel on October 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What Should We Think About “Gospel-Driven” Sanctification?
Posted in confessionalism, evangelicalism, Gospel, Gospel Centered, justification, Movements, Sanctification, soteriology, Union With Christ, tagged Horatius Bonar, J.C. Ryle, Jay E. Adams, Kevin DeYoung, Reformation 21, Sonship, Tullian Tchividjian, William B. Evans, Young, Young Restless and Reformed on August 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lately I’ve been doing some thinking about what is sometimes called Gospel-Driven Sanctification (or some similar terminology.*) This has come after reading the recent back and forth on the Gospel Coalition site between Tullian Tchividjian and Kevin DeYoung (among other posts) on the subject of effort in the Christian life. This issue was also alluded to [...]
Resources on N.T. Wright and the New Perspective on Paul
Posted in Brian Vickers, Denny Burk, Imputation, justification, Mark Seifrid, N.T. Wright, New Perspective on Paul, SBC, soteriology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Thomas Schreiner on April 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday Boyce College, the undergraduate college at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, hosted a discussion on N.T. Wright’s forthcoming book, Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision, which is largely a response to John Piper’s The Future of Justification. Denny Burk, who moderated the forum, posted about it here. I spent about three years in conservative [...]
Greg Gilbert on the Gospel
Posted in justification, N.T. Wright, New Perspective on Paul, soteriology on April 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here is a helpful post by Greg Gilbert on what to in some respects appears to be a new version of the old Social Gospel, among other things. What he has in view in these posts is what is being taught by Scot McKnight and N.T. Wright. Here’s his summation: In the NT, the good [...]
Russell Moore on the Passover
Posted in justification, Passover, Russell Moore on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s Wrong with Wright, in a Nutshell
Posted in Imputation, justification, N.T. Wright, New Perspective on Paul on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Douglas Wilson has been interacting with N.T. Wright’s latest book, which is a response to John Piper’s book The Future of Justification that is critical of Wright and the New Perspective on Paul’s teaching on justification. I haven’t been keeping up with Wilson’s posts, but Justin Taylor provides us with this key excerpt: Without imputation, [...]
