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April 28, 2015
I Guess Atheists Believe in Teleology as Well: Review of Rebecca Goldstein’s “Plato at the Googleplex”
Post by Nathan Rinne Note: This post is an updated and mostly abbreviated version of one I did at my own blog originally titled “Intelligent Design Even an Atheist Can Love: a Not-So-New “Logos” Reasserted”. I also did a follow-up to that post titled “The Gods of our Brahmins: Thomas Nagel’s and Rebecca Goldstein’s Intelligent [Read More...]
April 22, 2015
New Release: Commentary on Matthew by Charles F. Schaeffer
The Lutheran Commentary Series is the first series of Lutheran commentaries written in English. These volumes were compiled by Henry Eyster Jacobs, who called upon the greatest Lutheran exegetes in America to write a series of commentaries on the New Testament. The first commentary was published in 1895, and the publications continued through the early [Read More...]
April 21, 2015
Two Sermons on 1 John
These two sermons were preached on the last two Sundays at Faith Lutheran Church in Watseka, IL 1 John 1 1 John 3:1-7
Law and Gospel with Rich Shields
On today’s program I played a lecture from Rev. Rich Shields given at the 2015 AALC Eastern Regional Conference here in Watseka, IL. This followed my lectures on passive righteousness and active righteousness. The topic is the distinction between law and gospel. Here is the program.
All Things Dying: Why Even Grace-Promoting Pagan Elites are Ridden by the Devil
Post by Nathan Rinne Note: I am republishing this [slightly revised] book review I did in 2013 of Dreyfus and Kelly’s All Things Shining (2011). I was interested to see the book mentioned often (not favorably) in James K.A. Smith’s book How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor (2014), which deals in particular with [Read More...]
April 17, 2015
Five Things the Church Can Do to Change the Culture
Christians like to talk quite a bit about changing culture. This is a concern for people especially as we see the continued moral decay of our society, and a church that continues to accommodate itself to the ideals of the time. Yet, the ways that the church has tried to have a positive impact on [Read More...]
April 14, 2015
The Plea of a Stubborn “Confessional” Lutheran: Yes, My “Missional” Friend, Please DO Condemn My Lack of Love for the Lost
Post by Nathan Rinne Note: what follows deals with the “worship wars” in my denomination, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (see the second paragraph here for more resources about that). I think that it might have much wider applicability as well though! In John 6:66 we are told that many of his own disciples [Read More...]
April 10, 2015
Active Righteousness
This is my second lecture from the AALC Eastern Regional Conference on the two kinds of righteousness. The title of the lecture is “Equipping the Saints to Live Coram Mundo.” This lecture focuses on active righteousness. In it, I discuss the importance of good works in the life of the Christian, and their role in [Read More...]
New Book from Just and Sinner: Natural Theology by Milton Valentine
This is Milton Valentine’s major apologetic work. In this book, Valentine defends a robust natural theology, arguing that Theism is the only rational worldview in contradistinction to the materialistic rationalism which pervaded the nineteenth century. Valentine stands within the nineteenth century apologetic tradition among the likes of B.B. Warfield an Charles Hodge. Though some of [Read More...]
April 9, 2015
Passive Righteousness
This is a lecture I gave at the 2015 AALC Eastern Regional Conference on passive righteousness. The full title of the lecture is Equipping the Saints to Live Coram Deo. In the lecture, I explain the difference between active and passive righteousness, and how passive righteousness defines the Christian life before God, and specifically in [Read More...]
