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Ranking of Journals in Religion and Theology - the 2011 ERIH Index
For over ten years now work has been going on within the European Science Foundation to increase the visibility of European research in the Humanities. One tool that was developed was the ranking of journals in humanities. This led to the publication of the ERIH Initial List: Religious Studies and Theology (2007) which gave journals a ranking of A, B, C. This ranking induced confusion as to the quality of the publications.
Justice in Love: A Reading of Romans
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Justice in Love. Eerdmans, 2011.
Wolsterstorff teaches philosophy at Yale (his title is “Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus”). Before teaching at Yale he taught at Calvin College for about thirty years. For a more personal and autobiographical take on his combining philosophy and faith see his contribution in Philosophers who believe (IVP, 1997).
Should We Talk Less About Evangelism? Conference
On Dec 3, 2011 the Evangelical Theological Faculty (Leuven) organized a day of conferences on Mission and Evangelism. I was asked to do a conference on the topic “Should We Talk Less About Evangelism?” Each of the four speakers had fifty minutes. A small interaction time was scheduled at the end. This was a nice opportunity and setting for me to continue testing my work on evangelism for the book in English I am hoping to finish in 2012. Then, hopefully, a publisher will pick it up.
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ
John G. Turner. Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Working with students and on the historical and theological foundations of the contemporary discourse on evangelism, I try to read what’s available and good on these issues. After having read Meeting Jesus at University, I decided to read this book on Campus Crusade (recently renamed CRU, see also Campus Crusade International). Though the book dates back to 2008, I only discovered it recently.
John Stott Has Passed Away
John Stott passed away on July 27, 2011. He was born in 1921. More information on the memorial page on the John Stott.org site.
The Great Commission is Not the Duty of All Believers
As I have said before, I have not offered to present papers at conferences the last few years (bad career move!). I am breaking this habit. Since I will be at the Tyndale Fellowship NT study group this coming July and since there was a free spot, I volunteered to step in. My paper will be “The Great Commission (Matt. 28.19–20) in History and Today or Why the Great Commission is not the Duty of All Believers.”
LaTeX Beginner’s Guide: Review
Stefan Kottwitz, LaTeX: Beginner’s Guide. Packt Publishing, 2011.
If you have looked around this site, you know that one of the tools I use to write is LaTeX. Though it might not be everybody’s cup of tea, it does look like it is becoming more and more popular in the humanities. A sign of this increasing popularity is this new book published by Pack Publishing.
Works of the Law in Ambrosiaster
I have mentioned in another post that Calvin already refers to the discussion of the works of the law in reference to ceremonials. Calvin refers back to Chrystostome, Origen, and Jerome. I had also mentioned Ambrosiaster’s reference to works of the law as sabbaths, circumcision, etc. Here are the references in his Romans commentary where Ambrosiaster brings this up from the English translation in the Ancien Christian Texts Series (Ambrosiaster. Commentaries on Romans and 1-2 Corinthians. Ancient Christian Texts. Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Gerald L. Bray. Translated by Gerald L. Bray. IVP Academic, 2009.)
RBL Review of my Dissertation, Historicity, and How Romans Works
Four years after the publication of my dissertation, it has finally been reviewed on the Review of Biblical Literature site. The review is by Paul Sanders of the Protestantse Theologische Universiteit, in Utrecht (Netherlands).
One frustrating thing with a review coming out so long after your publication (most of my revised dissertation was finished in the fall of 2006) is that it drags you back to a bygone stage of your research. Hopefully you have progressed since then.
Should We Talk Less About Evangelism?
There has been a lot of debate about the role of the Church and of the local churches in evangelism recently. Should evangelism be the priority, the main focus of the Church’s life and services? Answering these questions will of course depend on how we define “evangelism.”
It is a well known feature of the New Testament that it really does not say much about the responsibility of the local church in evangelism.
