Every year I read a book or two that is so good that I can’t put it down. I look forward to the next chapter, and I’m sad when it’s over. The Synoptic Problem: A Johannine Solution by Kym Smith (Blackwood, South Australia: Sherwood Publications, 2007) was one of them.
Smith...
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Biblical Commentaries
New Book on Gospels by Kym Smith: A Great Read
Hippolytus of Rome’s Commentary on Daniel
Hippolytus was a presbyter in the church at Rome about 200 AD. It is he who started the genre of literature we know as biblical commentaries, being the first to write a running commentary on one book of the Bible. The book he chose was the prophet Daniel. Hippolytus’ church was...
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Predestination in the Century Before Gottschalk
In the mid-ninth century, a wandering monk named Gottschalk of Orbais (d. 868) sparked a controversy over divine predestination that shook both church and state in central Europe. But was Gottschalk the maverick that he is often made out to be? What did the church teach about grace and divine predestination in...
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