Book Briefs: Christ and the New Creation by Matthew Y. Emerson

By Billy Doolittle Matthew Emerson is the Dickinson Assistant Professor of Religion at Oklahoma Baptist University.  He earned his bachelor’s degree from Auburn University and his M.Div and Ph.D. from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He has published numerous articles and books in his specialty, biblical hermeneutics, and theological method of the Old and New …

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Building Faith & Counting Costs: The Cost of Discipleship in a Society that Takes Faith for Granted

  By David Brown  For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? (Luke 14:28) In his excellent commentary on Luke’s Gospel New Testament scholar David E. Garland wrote: “ Many who come to …

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Donald Trump and the Evangelical Vote

By Obbie Todd For years scholars have debated the validity of “secularization theory,” the idea that, as society progresses, religion will irrevocably lose its authority in the public square and in society as a whole. In his monumental work A Secular Age (2007), philosopher Charles Taylor described this view as the “disenchanting” of the world …

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