The Reformed Forum Into 2009

We had a great 2008 here at the Reformed Forum.  We started out as Castle Church and eventually shifted over to the less confusing “Reformed Forum.”  We produced 50 episodes of Christ the Center throughout 2008.  We started all the way back on January 25, 2008 and were able to publish a new episode every [...]

A Few New Books

You may be interested in a few new books that have hit the shelf.

John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology edited by Burk Parsons
The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority
by Greg Beale
Concise Reformed Dogmatics by J. van Genderen and W. H. Velema
Reformed Confessions of the 16th [...]

December John Owen Giveaway

Feeding on Christ and The Reformed Forum have decided to do a John Owen Giveaway. There will be two books to win and two chances to win them. The first book we have decided to give away is a 1810 edition of John Owen’s Pneumatologia: or a Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit. This book was [...]

The Forums are Active

We’ve installed new forum software over at forums.reformedforum.org in order to allow for discussions regarding Christ the Center and reformed theology in general.  Register now and start a discussion.

The Prodigal God

Tim Keller’s new book The Prodigal God.  Keller uses the parable of the prodigal son as a backdrop for explaining the gospel message.  The first thing readers might notice is the slightly offbeat title.  Shouldn’t it be the prodigal son?  Keller is quick to define the word prodigal as “recklessly extravagant” or “having spent everything.”  [...]

The New Media Frontier

As one in the throws of the new media revolution, I was naturally drawn to The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ edited by John Mark Reynolds and Roger Overton and published by Crossway.  This book addresses the changing landscape of media from a Christian perspective.  In his essay of first thoughts [...]

12 Bar Theology

A new book by Steve Nichols has just been released called Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation. As an avid fan [and player] of blues music, I am very interested in reading this book.  From the publisher:
In Getting the Blues, Stephen Nichols examines this dissonance in the Bible—what [...]

New Books of Interest

John Mark Reynolds and Roger Overton, eds. The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ
John Carrick The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards and the Imperative of Preaching
Andreas Kostenberger and Scott R. Swain Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel
Gary L. W. Johnson, ed. Reforming or Conforming?  Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church
Cornelius [...]

The Certainty of the Faith

Presbyterian & Reformed Publishers has just released The Certainty of the Faith by Richard Ramsay.  Ramsay is a presuppositionalist, but proposes what he calls an “integrated” approach to apologetics.  While maintaining his pre-commitment to God’s revelation in Scripture, he seeks to find a place for evidences and rational arguments provided they do not undermine the [...]

Inhabiting Reality: Thomas F. Torrance’s Criticisms of Dualism

The following is a paper I wrote some years ago for an independent reading course as part of my PhD program at Westminster Theological Seminary. It is an evaluation of one aspect of the theology of Thomas F. Torrance. I claim no expertise in Torrancean theology. But I offer this as an exercise in theological analysis.

This paper is about one particular aspect of the thought of theologian Thomas F. Torrance.[1] Torrance, is, of course, known for two major contributions he has made to theology. Torrance has made a tremendous contribution to an understanding of the interrelations of science and theology and, especially since his “retirement” from active teaching, for his production of erudite works on Trinitarian theology. Regarding Torrance’s work on the relationship of theology to the natural sciences, Elmer Colyer tells us,

Thomas F. Torrance is considered by many to be the most outstanding, living Reformed theologian in the Anglo-Saxon world. One of the leading theologians in the dialogue between theology and philosophy of science, he was awarded the Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion in 1978.