Archives for posts tagged ‘bible’

prayer in the bible

Recently I did a quick search for pray in the Bible. The results I got were rather surprising. I wasn’t trying to do serious research, so I didn’t go to the Greek and Hebrew and only used one translation (NRSV). I did run the search again with the KJV and did get significantly larger results, [...]

systematic theology is a cop-out

As you might of gathered if you follow me on twitter, I just began reading Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. For those not familar with it, it’s one of the essential primers that just about every reform type will suggest as thorough introduction to ‘good theology’. It’s also huge, 1200 pages, covering nearly every possible topic. [...]

targeted gospels

NPR on Morning Edition aired a story about two new Bibles which have just been published. The First one, Bible Illuminated, The Book, is a flashy coffee-table New Testament, which was created by Dag Soderberg, a secular Swedish advertising executive. It has a lot of glossy photos meant to help depict the story, celebrities (such [...]