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Review of The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion: Meaning and Mission by Seán Freyne
Read more: Review of The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion: Meaning and Mission by Seán FreyneSeán Freyne. The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion: Meaning and Mission. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. xii + 383 pp. Paperback. $35.00. ISBN: 9780802867865. The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion is the final work by the late Seán Freyne, who at the time of his death was Emeritus Professor of Theology at Trinity College, Dublin. Freyne…
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Tradition, Scripture, History
Read more: Tradition, Scripture, HistoryAs a good Protestant I was always taught to be grateful for, but suspicious of the first, fiercely devoted to the second, and un-threatened by the third. When Tradition is found wanting it can be remolded; it is malleable where the other two are not. Scripture is cast in stone. It does not change and…
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Amillennialism: Rethinking and Critiquing My Eschatology After Five Years
Read more: Amillennialism: Rethinking and Critiquing My Eschatology After Five YearsBack in May 2007 I posted a little blurb on my silly little blog (Dunne’s Discourses) about how I had become an Amillennialist. The main person responsible for my conversion was Pastor Kim Riddlebarger of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, CA. His book A Case for Amillennialism is one of the best at defending the position from…
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Theological Paradigms for how to do “Family”
Read more: Theological Paradigms for how to do “Family”The older I’ve become, the more my interests have changed. Actually, let’s use a better word than changed. I’ll be a little audacious and say “matured.” Gone are the days where my thoughts and day-dreams were occupied pondering how to beat the boss of the Goron Mountain Dungeon in “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of…
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How Many Kingdoms? Abrogation and Illegitimacy
Read more: How Many Kingdoms? Abrogation and IllegitimacyOver the past couple weeks I have attempted to lay a framework for the one-kingdom v. two-kingdom debate. I have done this by providing a brief sketch of crucial post reformation thinkers on the issue such as Abraham Kuyper and the later neo-Calvinists. Here we saw that while Kuyper was nowhere near an outright departure…