Ep. 29

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Do Reformed Christians believe in baptismal regeneration? How do Reformed Christians classically relate baptism to the church and to faith?

Ep. 28

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It is that time of year when many evangelicals and protestants have Mary very much on the mind, and so we thought it would be a good time to explore Mary and the Old Testament together.

Ep. 27

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How should we understand the relationship of the Septuagint to what we traditionally mean by Holy Scripture?

Ep. 26

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What difference might it make to our relationship to the Septuagint if we saw it not only as a translation of the Hebrew OT into Greek and as a translation often used in the NT, but as the first true commentary on the Hebrew Old Testament?

Ep. 25

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Imagine that leading Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians sit down at a table to discuss justification by faith. And imagine that those Protestants are not nominal liberals but are among the most celebrated, reliable, trustworthy, and representative theologians in history.

Ep. 24

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What difference might it make to reformed systematic theology if we were to recover and deploy the fundamental importance of the Trinity, the incarnation, the ascension, and especially the church, rather than expend all our energy only on the certainly indispensable doctrines of justification by faith alone, epistemology and revelation, theological method, the cross, and the atonement?

Ep. 23

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Can we speak properly of the repentance of Jesus Christ, the One whom the Scriptures say knew no sin nor was deceit ever found in his mouth? Can we hope in him as the faithful Israel of God without doing so?

Ep. 22

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What is it about wine that has for so long captivated us and which in its own way seems to put on display the very vulnerability and vitality of the human condition?

Ep. 21

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Our ethical relationship to technology is not exhausted by the familiar issues of too much screen time, pornography, or the vulnerabilities of social media. Neither is it as simple as using or not using this or that technology.

Ep. 20

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What does the exodus event have to do with contemporary concerns with divorce, domestic violence, biblical law, and the identity of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ?

Ep. 19

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An often and routinely overlooked part of Anselm's genius was his expression of the fervency and final satisfaction of our desire—our holiest desires—and the consequent shape, dynamic, and nature of perfected love.

Ep. 18

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What does the Sacramental table have to do with the confession of Lord Jesus Christ, and the Reformed catholicity?

Ep. 17

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Is Paul's famous Areopagus speech in Acts 17 a model for the Church's engagement with other religions? How so, or how not?

Ep. 16

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With a view to recent developments in Old Testament studies, today’s Greystone Conversations episode reflects on what difference those developments should have on what’s happening in the seminary and Bible college classroom.

Ep. 15

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Do we struggle against a downward tug when contemplating God’s perfect happiness or beatitude? Does it seem too human to speak of God as perfectly happy?

Ep. 14

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Evolution. Our reaction to this word may reflect the legacy of one or the other of two orthodox Reformed perspectives on what it is and how we approach it.

Ep. 13

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We do not realize just how extensively we assume things about reality in modern and western terms until, as close readers, we run up against the very different world not only at work in Scripture but persistently commended to us in Scripture.

Ep. 12

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George Herbert’s poem, The Bunch of Grapes, unites us as Christians vulnerable to griping to the Christ in whose faithfulness the crushed grapes of judgment yield the rich wine of blessing and joy.

Ep. 11

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In what ways does the final vision of the Church’s identity and activity at the end of Scripture in Revelation help us to understand the beginning of Scripture in Genesis in light of Leviticus?

Ep. 10

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How can the Church’s embrace of space within the biblical ritual world amount to a commitment to the visible gathered Church which proclaims the truth of belonging and home to a world struggling with a loss of place and with homesickness?