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Apr 30, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | David Christensen
The Jewish leaders wish to keep the Law’s requirement that corpses of the condemned not remain overnight, so that the land won’t be defiled during Passover (Deut. 21:22–23). The irony is that they are unintentionally obeying Exodus 12:10 (cf. Num. 9:12), which states concerning the Passover lamb, “You shall let none of it remain until the morning.” Of course, Jesus has already died, so they do not take his life from him (cf. John 10:18), and his bones are unbroken.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Chris Anderson |philip percival |Robert Menzies |David Christensen
One of the many developments that has caused our engagement with Christian hymns and songs to change over recent decades is the demise of the hymn book. The hymn book in the pew was the one source of a congregation’s singing repertoire.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Robert Menzies |David Christensen |Andreas J. Köstenberger |John Davis
AbstractMenzies responds to Tupamahu’s post-colonial critique of the Pentecostal reading of Acts and the missionary enterprise. According to Tupamahu, the disciples are marginalized Galileans who move from the periphery to the center of the Roman world. Thus, white American Pentecostals need to rethink their vision of the expansionist mission.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | David Firth |Brittany Melton |Robert Menzies |David Christensen
At the crux of the problem in the scholarship of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the past thirty years is whether these twelve books should be read as distinct texts or as a unified book. This edited volume, guided by two experienced Old Testament scholars, is one of the most recent forays into the research on the Book of the Twelve. Notwithstanding this crux in the Twelve, this book delves into a surprisingly rich and diverse range of topics.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | David Christensen |Robert Menzies |Andreas J. Köstenberger |John Davis
AbstractIn this article, I argue that John provides a window into the mechanics of how Jesus’s death saves, and this window is his use of the OT. When interpreters look through this window and ask how John understands Jesus’ death, our eyes are caused—by the passages John chose—to see substitutionary atonement as essential to the inner mechanism of how Jesus’s death saves.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Andreas J. Köstenberger |Robert Menzies |David Christensen |John Davis
AbstractThis article seeks to construct a biblical theology of gender based on Geerhardus Vos’s magisterial Biblical Theology. The essay first sets forth five hallmarks of Vos’s method: (1) putting God first; (2) focus on the text; (3) viewing Scripture as progressive divine revelation; (4) displaying a historical orientation; and (5) a belief in the practical utility of biblical theology.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | John Davis |Robert Menzies |David Christensen |Andreas J. Köstenberger
AbstractThis article argues that the One God of the Old Testament and Judaism is exactly the same God as the Trinitarian God of the New Testament and Christian creeds. The standpoint presupposed is that of the orthodox biblical teachings on the Trinity expressed in the Nicene and Athanasian creeds.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Jeremy Sexton |Robert Menzies |David Christensen |Andreas J. Köstenberger
AbstractPostmillennialism had been pronounced dead when R. J. Rushdoony and his fellow Reconstructionists resuscitated it in 1977 with stimulating though non-exegetical publications. In the following decades, many in Rushdoony’s train added innovative biblical arguments whose interpretive methods do not withstand scrutiny.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | N. Gray Sutanto |Robert Menzies |David Christensen |Andreas J. Köstenberger
AbstractWhile the term “cultural mandate” is well-recognized as a way of understanding the relationship between Christianity, culture, and human vocation, its origins from within the Dutch neo-Calvinist tradition are less known. Drawing from this tradition, then, this essay sketches the logic of a neo-Calvinistic account of the cultural mandate through the states of creation, fall, and redemption.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | G. K. Beale |Robert Menzies |David Christensen |Andreas J. Köstenberger
AbstractWhat does Paul mean by the expression “fight the fight” in 1 Timothy 1:18 (NASB)? The Greek verb στρατεύω with the noun στρατεία can be also rendered “battle the battle,” or more generally “perform military service” or “serve in a military campaign.” This expression occurs often in Greco-Roman literature as a patriotic warfare idiom for good character revealed by persevering through warfare or military campaigns.
