ID creationist bingo card

[HT Higgaion]


Any ideas as to what the joker could be replaced by?

Trevin Wax interviews Tom Wright ...

... here [HT David Field]. He covers:

1. Introduction
2. Wright’s conversion, calling, and personal worship
3. Wright on “the gospel”
4. Justification by faith
5. Justification - present and future
6. Justification and the Roman Catholic Church
7. Sola Scriptura
8. Is Wright arrogant to assume he has just now figured out what Paul meant?
9. Wright on his critics
10. Justification in practice
11. Wright on penal substitution
12. Wright on the resurrection
13. Wright on Evangelism
14. Wright on Church and State
15. Upcoming Writings and Conclusion

The podcast is here.

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Mac v PC

Much has been written about the advantages of the Mac over the PC. However, Chris Heard at Higgaion offers a very balanced view; he writes:

I’ve often said that Macintoshes and Windows PCs are good for different things, and you need to use the right tool for the job. The photo below demonstrates exactly what I’m talking about.

Bibliographies

There is something very satisfying about a bibliography. I love looking through them and adding more to my 'must get hold of' list.

I have now revised my 'On Dooyeweerd' bibliography. It was originally here - it's now available as a pdf from AoLR here and I have also put in on the reformational wiki here. The idea of putting it the wiki is so that it can become a collaborative project. Please do add any materials that I have omitted (or indeed make any corrections - there are no doubt many typos that need correcting!).

I'm also working on a Bernard Zylstra and a B J (Bennie) van der Walt bibliography. The van der Walt bibliography will slowly be appearing here.

Also Bruce Wearne is working on an annotated bibliography of Bob Goudzwaard - more details to follow!

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A Christian worldview

I have posted a number of pieces on a Christian worldview at Reformational UK:

• What is a worldview?
• Worldview: creation
• Creation: imaging God
• The cultural mandate
• Fall

More will follow... watch that space!

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Odds and sods

Stop death by PowerPoint

The Leviticus alphabet:

Offerings: 1-7

1 - A - Ascending up to God offering
2 - B - Bow to God in tribute offering
3 - C - Come and eat in peace offering
4 - D - Danger over in sin offering
5 - E - Ending guilt in trespass offering
6 - F - Further detailed rules for offerings
7 - G - Going on with rules for offerings

Priesthood: 8-10

8 - H - How to become a priest
9 - I - Inaugurate the tabernacle system
10 - J - Judgment on Aaron’s sons

Clean and unclean: 11-16

11 - K - Kosher food
12 - L - Little ‘uns – cleaning up after them
13 - M - Mouldy bodies and clothes
14 - N - New start from leprosy, but what about your house?
15 - O - Outflows and overflows
16 - P - Purification Day

Become a holy nation: 17-27

17 - Q - Quit remote sacrifices and don’t eat blood
18 - R - Ruinous practices, forbidden sex
19 - S - Special people, special life
20 - T - Taking chapter 18 further
21 - U - Unclean priestly actions, unfit priestly bodies
22 - V - Valid holy eating, void animal offering
23 - W - Wahay! Festivals!
24 - X - Execute blasphemer (+ lamp, bread, and eye for eye)
25 - Y - Years – Sabbath and Jubilee
26 - Z - Zones of blessing, zones of curse
27 - Redemption of vows

20 Books on Christ and culture - with some notable omissions! [HT Between two worlds]

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Battles

The next big thing?

Most people want to serve God ....

…usually in an advisory capacity.

Seen scrawled on the side of a vacant building in Berkeley, CA [HT Henry Schaeffer III]

Death to blog boredom?

I've been "tagged" by Bob Robinson of Vanguard Church and friend of Kuyper, Bob was tagged by Scott Berkhimer at Theopraxis, who was tagged by, Michael Kruse, who was tagged by David Ker, who it seems originated the meme, of Lingamish.

The "meme" is meant to discover "five little-known treasures of the blogosphere" in order to put to death our blog bore. I'm honoured to be described by Bob (or at least the meme) as a 'treasure'!


Anyway here are my five 'little treasures' all of which deserve loads more readers:

• Jon Birch - ASBO Jesus
• Paul Robinson - Novice philosopher
• Rudi Hayward - Intermezzo
• Kenn Hermann - Radix perspectives
• Bennett Cahan Carnahan- gilgal [sorry Bennett]

Gideon, David and Macht would also have had a mention - but they have enough readers as it is, they are hardly little known and they don't like memes!

(Consider yourselves tagged guys! Why are they all guys? Perhaps we need another meme for female bloggers worth checking out!)


I would also have nominated The Friend of Kuyper blog - but Bob has already done that. But seeing as he nominated one of his own blogs I'll also do that - H. Evan Runner blog: I've been transcribing some of his lectures - they are excellent stuff and deserve a wider audience.

Theological Journal Libarary vols 1-10 announced

For $400 dollars 500 years of theological journals can be yours. (I have mentioned the Theological Journal Library before - I'm still undecided to wait for Logos to get a Mac version or go for Accordance). The new 2 CD package contains volumes 1-10 with the following journals:

• Ashland Theological Journal (Volumes 1-37)
• Bibliotheca Sacra (Volumes 91-163)
• Bible and Spade (Volumes 1-12, 1-13)
• Chafer Theological Seminary Journal (Volumes 1-12)
• Christian Apologetics Journal (Volumes 1-5)
• Conservative Theological Journal (Volumes 1-10)
• Conspectus (Volumes 1-3)
• Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal (Volumes 1-11)
• Emmaus Journal (Volumes 1-14)
• Faith and Mission (Volumes 1-23)
• Global Journal (Volumes 1-2)
• Grace Journal (Volumes 1-14)
• Grace Theological Journal (Volumes 1-12)
• Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Volumes 1-11)
• Journal of Christian Apologetics (Volumes 1-2)
• Journal of Dispensational Theology (Volume 10)
• Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Volumes 9-49)
• Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society (Volumes 1-19)
• Journal of Ministry and Theology (Volumes 1-10)
• Masters Seminary Journal (Volumes 1-15)
• Michigan Theological Journal (Volumes 1-5)
• Reformation and Revival (Volumes 1-13)
• Reformed Baptist Theological Review (Volumes 1-3)
• Review and Expositor (Volumes 70-103)
• Southern Baptist Journal of Theology (Volumes 1-10)
• Trinity Journal (Volumes 1-26)
• Westminster Theological Journal (Volumes 1-68)

There is an excellent deal for those that have any of the previous volumes:

We are doing things a little differently than the past 4 years...Instead of having a separate Volume 10 CD, I decided to put all 10 volumes into one package.(we will no longer offer TJL 6, 7, 8 & 9 separately)
And I've devised what I hope is an equitable way for everyone to get caught up.

Here's the way the upgrade thing will work.The list price for the complete package is $400.Since there are 10 volumes in the package, that's $40 per volume.So, your cost of upgrading is $40 X the number of volumes you are behind.

For example:you have TJL 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 - then your upgrade price is only $40.you have TJL 5, 6 and 7 - you pay $120 (for 8, 9 and 10 content)you have TJL 5 only - you pay $200 (for 6-10 content)

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B J van der Walt on Vollenhoven

I have uploaded the following paper by Bennie van der Walt to All of life redeemed:

2006. The philosophy of D. H. Th. Vollenhoven (1892-1978), with special reference to his historiography of philosophy. Tydskrif vir Christelike Wetenskap 42 (1-2): 35-39.

It is an excellent and readable introduction to Vollenhoven's work. It includes - and clearly explains - this diagram:

Annihilation again

I have blogged before about annihilation here and here. Glenn Peoples, who blogs here, has posted his article on annihilation from JETS (June 2007) here together with a response from Petersen.

Antony Flew

Former atheist Antony Flew is interviewed by Benjamin Wiker here.

Flew's book There is No A God is soon to be released.

Here is Dawkin's take on Flew's conversion to a-atheism:




And here is an interview with Flew in which he discusses some of the factors that made him reconsider his atheism:

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Reading level?

[HT Transformatum]

H G Stoker on Calvinistic philosophy

Robert Bradshaw has put up a pdf of an article by the South African philosopher H G Stoker 'The possibility of a Calvinistic philosophy' Evangelical Quarterly 7 (1935): 17-23.

AoLR: Cameron pages

I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Alan Cameron pages on All of life redeemed. Alan is senior lecturer in commercial law at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His academic specialisation is reformational legal philosophy with a particular interest in the legal philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd. He is the editor of Herman Dooyeweerd, Encyclopedia of the Science of Law Volume 1: Introduction (Mellen Press, Series A, vol 8, 2002) and author of articles and papers on Dooyeweerd's jurisprudence.

• Coarse on law and economics (previously unpublished) [pdf]
• 1997. Implications of Dooyeweerd's legal philosophy for political theory. Nuances [electronic] 5 (August) Pt 5. (offsite)
• 1997. 'A Reformational Perspective on Law and Justice', Chapter 13 in Signposts of God's Liberating Kingdom: Perspectives for the 21st Century Vol. 1, 1997(Potchefstroom: IRS.) , pp 189-204
• 1998. Dooyeweerd on law and morality: legal ethics - a test case. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 28 (1): 263-281. [pdf]
• 1998. 'Law, justice and ethics' (previously unpublished)

Urban saints training days

SHAPING THE DREAMS OF THIS GENERATION
One-day Training Conferences for all Christian youth and children’s leaders

Young people dream.

Caught up as consumers in a secular society poisoned by a toxic mix of materialism and greed they have few positive influences to help shape their dreams.

That's where you come in...

During the training conferences we will help you to:

• Gain an insight into the forces that shapethe dreams and worldviews of our young people.
• Discover how to help young people challenge the secular worldviews they pick up.
• Be challenged to see how we can engage with the Bible in a fresh and exciting way.

Be envisioned to help young people see how the story of God can help re-shape their dreams.

Main speaker: We are delighted that Mark Roques (resident tutor at the West Yorkshire School of Christian Studies) is joining us at each venue.

Mark is a writer and storyteller who has spent many years in education. For eleven years he taught Philosophy & Religious Studies at Prior Park College in Bath where he developed a unique Christian worldview course that combined film, music, story-telling and subversive role plays.

Mark is the author of Curriculum Unmasked: Towards a Christian Understanding of education, The Good, The Bad and The Misled: True Stories Reflecting Different World Views for Use in Secondary Religious Education and Fields of God: Football and the Kingdom of God.

Information:

These events are open to anyone aged 16 or over who works with any age group from 8 upwards.

Registered Energize groups receive three free places as part of their subscription, and thereafter the cost is £10 per person. All other leaders pay £15. The fee includes light refreshments throughout the day and a comprehensive workbook.

Each training conference will run from 10:00am to 4:30pm.

Our venues are carefully chosen churches and Christian centres with good conference facilities, easy access from major routes and parking on-site or very close by. Venue details will be sent with each booking confirmation, and are also available on request.

A wide range of books, videos and other resources for youth and children’s leaders will be on sale at each venue, many at heavily discounted prices.

Refreshments will be provided free throughout the day, but you will need to bring a packed lunch.

Dates and venues for Autumn 2007:

Nov 3 - Belfast
Nov 10 - Colwyn Bay
Nov 17 - Cardiff
Nov 24 - Bristol

Booking information:

Please click HERE to download a Booking Form in PDF format

Please click HERE to download a brochure in PDF format (1 MB)

FOR DETAILS OF THE 2008 TRAINING CONFERENCES CLICK HERE

Bernard Zylstra Lectures

Presents the annual

BERNARD ZYLSTRA LECTURES
Wednesday, November 7, 2007


Authority and the Image of God


Dr. David T. Koyzis
Professor of Political Science
Redeemer University College

Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation

Chapel address
11:00 am - 12:00 noon, Auditorium
"Living as Image-Bearers"

Afternoon Panel Discussion
3:00 pm, Executive Dining Room
"What Now? Taking Stock of the Provincial Election Results"

Evening Public Lecture
7:00 pm, Room 213
"Can I? May I? The Reduction of Authority to Power"



Invitation is open and admission is free

For more information please contact

Marlene Raddatz
(905)648-2131 x 4414
mraddatz[at]redeemer[dot]ca

A Reformational Wiki

I have recently set up a reformational wiki:

If you want to get involved in adding and editing material let me know.

Plantinga's Norton lectures

Justin - between two worlds -Taylor has links for Alvin Plantinga's 2007 Norton Lectures at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary:

• "Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue?"
• "Divine Action in the World"
• Ph.D. Graduate Club luncheon
• “Evolution vs. Atheism”