What's what this week
Thursday 07 July 2005 at 01:25 amHere's a few noteworthy posts that are worth checking out at the moment:
The anti-emergent posse have been extremely supportive of D A Carson's book Becoming Conversant With Emergent although as Ken Archer points out, Carson has mistakenly assumed that postmodernism is essentially about a shift in epistemology but Carson's own methods and conclusions are severely lacking as he himself does not demonstrate an alternative approach despite advocating one.
Dave over at The Blue Fish is blogging live from the NFI leadership conference. check out his latest post here. Other bloggers on the road include Phillip Johnson who is always an enjoyable read even if I disagree with almost everything he says. He has a post reasserting the need for a refocus on the doctrine of penal substitution and the law-court setting of the atonement. Interesting reading but (as I've said before), I think penal substitution as it is currently thought of is simply unbiblical and full of problems, and despite purporting to 'take sin seriously', it actually does the opposite and diminshes the work of Christ. The law-court image is important, though I think people forget that the biblical law-court model is a covenantal Hebrew one, not a Roman or post-Roman western one but I intend to write something on this as soon as I've moved house.
The Thinklings have a good post on the freedom that God brings, and Adrian has the latest in his series of interviews with the ESV translators. Finally, this week's Christian Carnival is up at the Bible Archive.