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Suffering and the Christian understanding of truth

Thomas Oden of Drew University Theological School explains why any Christian understanding of truth must include a willingness to suffer for that truth.

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Humility in the Wrong Place

Author and literary critic, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), on the new modesty.

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Jesus, the Poor Man

Tim Keller on how God’s symbolic and literal identification with poverty should radically reorient our view of poverty and the poor.

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The chief obstacle to the Gospel

Influential Presbyterian theologian and co-founder of the Westminster Theological Seminary, J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) discusses why the intellectual challenges to the Gospel matter.

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The God who speaks

Don Carson on the importance of verbal revelation in God’s communication of Himself to humanity.

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The essence of Christianity is Christ

Peter Kreeft explains that the heart of Christianity is not ethical, but metaphysical.

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Jesus among the historians

Scot McKnight discusses the search for the historical Jesus and argues that common portraits of Jesus as merely a social revolutionary or religious teacher are unable to explain why he was killed or why the early Christians chose to identity themselves with him.

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The Christian eschatological hope

David Wells on the substance of Christian hope, from his book ‘The Courage to Be Protestant’.

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The Two Cities

A quote by Augustine on the worldviews of the city of God and the city of man. After Alaric and the Vandals had sacked Rome and many people began to blame the conversion of the empire to Christianity for this, Augustine wrote The City of God to give a defense for the church, by tracing the history of two cities or worldviews from the beginning of the world.

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Proclaiming what God has done in space and time

David Wells on truth and the proclamation of the Gospel.

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Faith and Knowledge

There is no faith relation with Christ free of doctrinal content. The knower must have some knowledge of the known, or no relation exists. That seemingly redundant and self-evident statement should underlie the issue. Jesus Christ and our knowledge of Him are not in any sense coextensive. But one cannot have a relation with Him without knowledge, and that knowledge…

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The primacy of God’s revelation

“One thing is for sure. God has said something about everything. He has told us that all things are created and that all things are sustained by him. He has told us that all things are to be done to his glory and that all things work according to the counsel of his own will. These notions have sweeping ramifications for any thing that we pursue…

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