Seneca: Can anyone be found who would willingly die on a cross?

‘Can anyone be found who would prefer wasting away in pain dying limb by limb, or letting out his life drop by drop, rather than expiring once for all? Can any man be found willing to be fastened to the accursed tree, long sickly, already deformed, swelling with ugly weals on shoulders and chest, and [...]

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SBL Deliverance of God Audio

I have battled my way in the last few weeks half-way through this important study by Douglas Campbell. This book offers a serious challenge to justification by faith, whether one takes a ‘Lutheran’ of Wrightian New Perspective.  It offers a new paradigm rather than a new perspective.
I was pleased to see hear that a recent [...]

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Gerald Bray Mp3, On Piper and Wright

John Piper, N.T. Wright, and Justification Mp3
Gerald Bray has a written a piece on the Piper/Wright debate here.

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Deep Church by Jim Belcher: Part One

The librarian at Trinity college, Bristol is excellent. I told her about the book ‘Deep Church’ by Jim Belcher which had recieved numerous good reviews. She ordered a copy  which I was able to pick up today.
The book explores a path, which he calls Deep Church,  which can be taken which avoids both  traditional evangelicalism [...]

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Tom Wright & James Dunn The New Perspective on Paul

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Mark 13: The Temple, tribulation and the arrival of the Eschaton Part 4

Vindication of the Son of Man
R.T France rejects a parousia understanding of this passage as the text does not speak of the ’son of man’ coming to earth but on the basis of its Daniellic background is to be understood, with Mark 8:38, as ‘enthronement, of the the ‘one like the son of man’ coming [...]

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Mark 13: The Temple, Tribulation and the Arrival of the Eschaton Part 3

‘The Coming of the Son of Man: Mark 13:24-27

Although popular and naive positivist readings from the text can lead us, at times, to similar interpretative conclusions as the most ardent hermeneutically sensitive scholar.1—I do not want to place authentic reading of scripture simply into the realm of the academy—the hermeneutical chasm, in passages, [...]

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Universalism and Logic

I thought that the debates of Calvinism and Arminianism were a thing of my past. Yet today at college the debate has once more reared its head. The Rev. Ravi Holy offered in a lively passioante presentation a case for universalism. In 2.5 hours so much ground was covered. He sought to distinguish universalism from [...]

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N.T Wright and Karl Barth in Conversation: Justification and Methodology

I figure that you may aswell share essays online which may be of use to other students, researchers or of general interest. The following paper was produced about 5 years ago whilst at Sheffield University. It seeks to anaylse the methodology and hermeneutics of N.T Wright and Karl Barth in the light of their views [...]

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Mark 10:45: Hooker, McKnight, Wright, Penal Substitution

A few months ago as part of my research I looked at the interpretation of Mark 10:45. The full document is available here in PDF format mark-10-45-swales. The study seeks to interact with the classic work by Morna Hooker Jesus and the Servant,  Scott McKnight Jesus and his Death and it of interest to those who are interested with the [...]

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