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Daniel: Notes for Bible Study Groups, Part 4

October 2, 2016 by Kathy Cooper 1 Comment

Why does a book of the Bible spend so much time on a king who isn’t following God? Check out Kathy Cooper’s study notes for some ideas.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Daniel, Life in the Academy, The University Tagged With: character, culture, Daniel, Daniel Bible Study, ethics, exile, God, idolatry, Image, judgment, King Nebuchadnezzar, power, Pride, vision, wisdom, worship

Daniel: Notes for Bible Study Groups, Part 3

September 25, 2016 by Kathy Cooper No Comments

“There’s a difference between being functional in a culture and assimilating into that culture.” —Carl Ellis

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Daniel, Life in the Academy, The University Tagged With: character, culture, Daniel, Daniel Bible Study, ethics, exile, God, idolatry, Image, power, vision, wisdom, worship

Book Review: Playing God, by Andy Crouch

April 22, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

I think many of us have developed our understanding of power from Lord Acton’s axiom: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. For most of us, that is the end of story and this accounts, at least among many Christians I know, for a deep aversion to anything like the exercise of power.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: andy crouch, Book Review, human flourishing, idolatry, institutions, intervarsity press, Playing God, power

Book Review: Gods That Fail, by Vinoth Ramachandra

April 1, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

Gods That Fail is a consideration of how the false gods of late modernity both undermine human flourishing in a globalizing world and render ineffectual the witness of the church in that world, set in contrast with the biblical narratives of creation, the nature of evil, and the unique, transformative power of the cross.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: Book Review, Christian mission, cultural analysis, idolatry, modernity, postmodernity, Vinoth Ramachandra

Kuyper’s View of Creation

September 19, 2014 by Dan Jesse No Comments

The third post in a series drawing from and interacting with Richard Mouw’s Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction (Eerdmans, 2011).  If Christ’s concern, and therefore our concern is the redemption of the whole of Creation, how do we go about this? “How are we as Christians to work at redeemed cultural activity?” (Mouw, 15) The simple […]

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Filed Under: Abraham Kuyper by Richard Mouw, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Abraham Kuyper, Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction, Christ, creation, culture, hypocrisy, idolatry, individualism, many-ness, pluriformity, redemption, Richard Mouw, sameness

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