Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Dec 10, 2009, 1:09 pm
In both friendly conversations and while reading blog comments from theological opponents (Roman Catholic epologist types), I’ve heard the objection to sola scriptura lately that under it, indiv...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Dec 5, 2009, 10:37 am
Bill Bailey suspects joggers, plays jazz:
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Dec 2, 2009, 10:56 pm
Okay, I’m back, at least for now. I hope you are sitting down, because I think I’m about to agree with something that the Pyromaniacs said. In response to the Manhattan Declaration, Dan P...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 28, 2009, 2:55 pm
I have two thoughts I want to talk about here, but I’m not sure how they’re directly related, except insofar as the title of this post indicates. The first is expressed in countless places...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 26, 2009, 6:28 pm
Dan has introduced the overall concept of this series, so I won’t repeat his comments again. I will note that in my case, several of my choices could be replaced by other very similar people tha...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 26, 2009, 1:39 pm
But I do have a lot of “real life” stuff going on right now, and blogging is just taking too much time out of it for the time being. I’ll come back when I can but the recession is ma...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 24, 2009, 10:20 am
Links, glorious links! What the early church taught about money and material wealth. Do missionaries inadvertently spread secularism? A case study on modernity using Indonesia and Dutch missionaries...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 23, 2009, 10:41 pm
(…or, you know, “no” women.) Many times in the past I was under the impression that the evangelical Christian subculture had reached its nadir. And yet, just when I think it’s...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 22, 2009, 12:17 pm
Some links (I almost typed “kinks” instead): The Saddam school of management: “For an economist, some of Saddam’s strategies are reminiscent of themes in the economics of organiza...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 20, 2009, 8:30 pm
Since at least Bill liked my QI installment last week, here’s more QI, this time on rabbits: And spaghetti:
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 20, 2009, 10:57 am
Friday links, get them while they’re hot: The Bible is on Xbox – don’t know how it will stack up against killing Nazi zombies. The worst attempt at compiling the greatest songs. S...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 19, 2009, 11:19 am
Kester Brewin has a post about a new campaign brought to you by the “atheist bus” people. In this effort they pick up on a complaint made by Richard Dawkins that labeling children as belon...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 10, 2009, 2:43 pm
One of the things that I keep coming back in our recent discussion of the essentials of Christianity is the story of the thief on the cross with Jesus. Here is a man who admits to having not led an ex...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 8, 2009, 4:57 pm
While watching syndicated news networks last night to follow the Congressional health care vote, it dawned upon me how shallow all the discussion was. I know, I know, this is not news. But it is news ...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 8, 2009, 11:29 am
Andrew tweeted about a study that LifeWay did in which they found that those who do not attend church prefer gothic cathedrals to contemporary church structures. The goods from the report: “Peo...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 6, 2009, 12:12 pm
Recently Peter Leithart has been posting on the significance of the just war criteria. A few notable quotes: Pakistan has been one of the staunchest American allies in the region, so staunch that it�...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 5, 2009, 10:03 pm
A long time ago on this blog we discussed the sociology of belief surrounding politics and religion, or more concretely, why it is that so many religious and political beliefs seem to come as a “...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 4, 2009, 9:05 pm
From Philip Jenkins’ modern classic, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2nd ed.): Any knowledgeable observer in the 1790s would have concluded that orthodox Christianity h...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 4, 2009, 3:28 pm
Several blogs (Evangel, The Boar’s Head Tavern, and City of God, at least) have been discussing the meaning of the “Gospel” lately, and I thought I would chime in. In some circles, especially E...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 4, 2009, 12:30 pm
Writing in Eye, Kate Carraway remarks on what she calls the tyranny of stuff: “As my friends and I become more and more situated in our adult lives, it seems that the need we feel to both accum...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 3, 2009, 12:14 pm
In my previous post on determining the method for finding essentials, I discussed two steps in the process I think we need to follow to carry out my proposal: we first read for explicit statements tha...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Nov 2, 2009, 2:06 pm
Continuing with my last post, I want to clear up the kind of methodology I think needs to be used to determine what the apostles teach are essential doctrine for the church. The first step in this ki...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Oct 4, 2009, 3:32 pm
Explaining a shipping mishap: This is an Australian comedy team known as Clarke and Dawe.
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Oct 4, 2009, 3:05 pm
Ah, yes, drifting looks like a lot of fun but what about theological drift? What I mean is statements like the one Keith made in a post a while ago: All theologies seem to have a certain drift affixe...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Oct 3, 2009, 11:27 am
Some Saturday links: The Church of Atwood? Margaret Atwood’s latest book, The Year of the Flood contains a fictional religious movement and therefore she decided that her book tour should cons...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Oct 2, 2009, 11:36 pm
I’m reading up on Brian McLaren for longish post I was planning to do about him, but something jumped out at me tonight about Christianity in general when thinking about him. Consider this: N. T...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Oct 1, 2009, 7:40 pm
…who know what it means to be doctors: Pereira, chief of palliative medicine at the long-term-care hospital Bruyère Continuing Care in Ottawa, specializes in caring for and improving the quali...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Oct 1, 2009, 2:57 pm
The National Post’s religion column-blog Holy Post recently posted about Richard Dawkins’ new evolution book, The Greatest Show on Earth. In that article (not written by Dawkins, but quoti...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 30, 2009, 8:16 pm
Worth listening to. A couple things that I found very interesting: the theme of “witness to kings” within Acts, and connected to the OT, as well as the significance of Apollos’ inco...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 30, 2009, 1:01 am
I have a thought. Hopefully it’s a good one.  If you at any time in the past couple years read Brian McLaren’s The Last “Word”(?) and the “Word”(?) After That and...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 29, 2009, 3:02 pm
Something struck me when I went to the U2 show earlier this month: many of the people seemed to watch nearly the entire show staring into their phones or cameras with which they were recording the con...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 29, 2009, 10:44 am
Most students of history probably know the significance of Gutenberg’s invention of the movable type printing press for the Reformation. Because of it, Protestant theological materials challengi...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 24, 2009, 10:50 pm
Recent discussions about the church have raised the question of the relation of the kingdom of God that Jesus preached to the “church” that those who support the institutional church, prea...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 24, 2009, 11:29 am
I don’t know how many readers of this blog have seen or would have an interest in seeing the film Manufactured Landscapes but there will be a screening of it tonight at UofT followed by a discus...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 23, 2009, 11:23 am
Richard Sudworth posted a critique of the thought of Pete Rollins and Kester Brewin last week (HT). Today I read Rollins’ response at his blog. Part of what’s going on is Sudworth’s ...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 21, 2009, 12:48 pm
There’s a video in which Perry Noble makes a very silly argument, namely that his multi-site megachurch is right in God’s eyes because it’s so darn popular. (He also implies that Act...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 19, 2009, 10:13 am
More links, fire up the grill: Mark Driscoll has nothing on these Brazilians who have extreme fighting at their church services. Andrew Sullivan points out the plank in the eye of social conservati...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 19, 2009, 9:17 am
Joe Biden anyone? Still not as crazy as Glenn Beck:
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 18, 2009, 11:11 pm
Sometime in my second-last year of I high school I began to believe in Calvinism. Along with it, I picked up several political opinions that I thought were the consistent outworkings of Calvin’s...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 18, 2009, 10:32 pm
Just added a link to Steven Wedgeworth’s blog, Wedgewords. It’s an excellent resource for lots of things, but especially for early church and Reformed church history.
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 18, 2009, 3:29 pm
Steven makes a comment in relation to Peter Enns slide into liberalism that brought up something I’ve been thinking about: Well Pete Enns has stepped into the abyss. A lot of these “Biblical...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 17, 2009, 8:16 pm
The historical debate about the genealogy of modern atheism continues amongst historians and theologians, blaming various figures such as Duns Scotus, Francisco Saurez, the deists, René Descartes, an...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 7, 2009, 11:11 am
It’s the long weekend, so fire up the grill! Pete Rollins had a parable contest recently inviting readers to make up their own, this one was my favourite. James K.A. Smith wants to know for...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 6, 2009, 10:20 pm
The Accidental Ecumenist (a short story) Sir Reginald Piddleby-Squeak was in a pickle. The pickle he was in was no ordinary pickle, but a pickle of the most unusual size and sourness, a pickle from w...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 6, 2009, 2:16 pm
Edit: See the comments in the comment box. I think I probably was wrongly interpreting McLaren here. For the sake of honesty I’ll leave my mistaken interpretation with the retraction, rather tha...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 5, 2009, 8:39 am
After the series of irenic posts by Halden on John Piper that Dan linked to in a previous sausage post, I was thinking about the kind of God that Halden excoriates there. Yesterday I was reading Leit...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 4, 2009, 10:49 am
Christopher Walken reads to your children:
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 2, 2009, 1:22 pm
More delicious links: Newer International Version: Darryl Dash interviews Douglas Moo on a planned update for the NIV slated for 2011. Randomness and evolution: Jim Manzi uses mathematics to show ho...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 2, 2009, 11:21 am
Note: This is a continuation of a series of posts I started a while back. This post constitutes a bit of a detour but I think it needs to be said before going any further. I suppose if this post serie...
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Dan G. posted an article on City of God - Sep 1, 2009, 9:30 pm
There was some talk on Andrew Sullivan’s blog about the Just World Hypothesis by guest-blogger Jonah Lehrer. If you don’t know what the Just World Hypothesis is, here’s a quote from ...
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