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Exile and New Life
Exile and New Life

Dearman reads the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles as the Old Testament's primary picture of corporate failure, and as the matrix N.T. Wright says shaped Jesus' announcement of the kingdom. The…

Who Needs Confessions of Faith?
Who Needs Confessions of Faith?

Why do Protestants have confessions of faith? Burnett's answer is short: not because we want to say more than the Bible says, but because we don't want to say less.…

A Reforming Recommendation
A Reforming Recommendation

Pelikan called the Reformation a tragic necessity, and Gatewood holds the two halves of that phrase together. The piece reads as both celebration of the Word's work in the Reformers'…

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