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The Transfiguration of Christ: A Book Review with Reflections on Judgment
Read more: The Transfiguration of Christ: A Book Review with Reflections on JudgmentIn his wonderfully fascinating new book, The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading, by Patrick Schreiner (Baker Academic 2024), Dr. Schreiner demonstrates in minutely researched detail how the transfiguration of Christ reveals Christ’s preexistent glory, while also foreshadowing his messianic function of bringing about a transformed and reworked creation in which heaven and…
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A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final Judgment
Read more: A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final JudgmentProfessor Wright has given us all a precious gift by “reminding” us and, more importantly, by explaining to us in persuasive detail that Jesus on Easter did not pass into some vague spiritual netherworld, but rather rose bodily from the dead. The resurrection, Dr. Wright correctly proclaims, represents the defeat of death and the inauguration…
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Do Near-Death Experiences Conflict with the Biblical Notion of the Final Judgment?
Read more: Do Near-Death Experiences Conflict with the Biblical Notion of the Final Judgment?A near-death experience (NDE) is generally defined as what people experience after they have been pronounced clinically dead, that is, with no brain waves or heart function, and who are later resuscitated. It is important to note here that Jesus did not resuscitate, but resurrected. He is the only one in human history to have…
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Postscript to an Article on the Judgment Seat of Christ in 2 Cor. 5:10
Read more: Postscript to an Article on the Judgment Seat of Christ in 2 Cor. 5:10In response to my full article on a new reading of 2 Corinthians 5.10 (which you can read here in full), Dr. Garland wrote: “Tom rightly points [out] that one’s unexamined presuppositions about what the text says tends to predetermine the reading of the Greek grammar. If one assumes the interpretation is correct, one is…
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Jeannine K. Brown, Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation (Reflections for 2 Corinthians 5:10)
Read more: Jeannine K. Brown, Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation (Reflections for 2 Corinthians 5:10)Dr. Jeannine Brown’s new book, Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation (Baker), was a delight to read and should benefit both scholar and lay Christian alike. What intrigued me the most was the preliminary matter of attempting to identify and sort through various subgenres within larger works, and then how…
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The Judgment Seat of Christ Revisited (2 Corinthians 5.10) – Full Exegetical Article
Read more: The Judgment Seat of Christ Revisited (2 Corinthians 5.10) – Full Exegetical ArticleABSTRACT: This paper argues that the subordinate clause in 2 Corinthians 5:10 should be translated “so that each of us may receive through the body what is due us for what we have done,” instead of the traditional translation: “so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while…
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Prelude To An Article On The Judgment Seat Of Christ In 2 Corinthians 5:10
Read more: Prelude To An Article On The Judgment Seat Of Christ In 2 Corinthians 5:10The article that I’ve written, which will be posted in full on The Two Cities tomorrow, offers a fresh perspective on the timing, venue, and nature of Christ’s judgment of believers (i.e., the Judgment Seat of Christ taken from 2 Cor. 5:10). The article suggests that this evaluation does not take place in some post-death…
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N.T. Wright Interview About His New Book, God and the Pandemic (Podcast)
Read more: N.T. Wright Interview About His New Book, God and the Pandemic (Podcast)N.T. Wright joins The Two Cities podcast for a special interview episode about his upcoming new book, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath (London: SPCK / Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020). His new book is an expansion and development of a short article that he wrote for TIME magazine…
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Mis(?)-Judging the Ray Rice Saga
Read more: Mis(?)-Judging the Ray Rice SagaBy now, most of us have been thoroughly inundated—thanks, largely in part, to ESPN’s wash-rinse-repeat approach of showing the elevator video—with coverage of the NFL’s domestic violence problem specifically as it relates to Ray Rice. The reaction against Rice was swift, virtually unanimous and severe. Understandably so. The reaction against the NFL could aptly be described…
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Generous Judgment?
Read more: Generous Judgment?You don’t have to live in California, or even America, to hear about the outcries and the tensions behind the incredible prison overcrowding in this state. It is one of the many problems (although the list of California’s major problems is probably long enough to be a substantially long novel in and of itself) this…