by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Books, Leadership, Ministry, Theology
Americans talk and write endlessly about what the church needs to becoming, what the church must do ot be effective. The perceived failures of the church are analyzed and reforming strategies prescribed. The church is understood almost exclusively in terms of function...
by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Change Theology
I want to begin disseminating some of my research over the past two years. I have been focusing on the integration of emerging sciences and scripture to develop a theology of transformational change. What I find wonderfully interesting is that in this area, science...
by David Phillips | May 10, 2011 | Books, Gospel, Theology
NT Wright has taken on one of the most important topics in theology, that of the meaning of righteousness and justification in Paul. Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision was necessitated by John Piper’s critic of Wright’s understanding...
by David Phillips | Apr 5, 2011 | Books, Gospel, Theology, Trinity, Word
Dr. John Franke is the Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. A couple of years ago, I had the privilege of having lunch with him just to talk about theology, faith, and the...
by David Phillips | Apr 5, 2011 | Theology
Finally I am getting back to a series of posts on Baptists and Sacramentalism. In this post I want to give some reasons, taken from Clark Pinnock’s chapter in Baptist Sacramentalism: Studies in Baptist History and Thought, as to why Baptists should recover some...