This year’s Society of Vineyard Scholars annual meeting was at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. Featuring a number of well-known scholars (e.g., Howard Snyder, Craig Keener, Eleanor Mumford), Vineyard thinkers and friends of the Vineyard gathered together to share and hear and pray and reflect and hang out together. [Read more…]
Live Blogging the #SVS2014 Annual Conference
Over the next few days I’ll be doing some “live blogging” during my time at the Society of Vineyard Scholars’ 2014 annual conference (download the program here). We’re blessed to have Craig Keener and Jack Levison as keynote speakers, along with a ton of excellent people presenting excellent papers. Plus, I get to moderate/facilitate/sit-and-listen/respond during a hermeneutics panel covering a Vineyard 5-step exegesis model. Should be fun!
You can follow me on twitter (@lgeraty) as well as follow the hashtag #SVS2014 for relevant tweets.
Strange Fire Turns Toward Strained Polemics
So the firestorm from the Strange Fire Conference has been steadily building throughout the past few weeks and is now in full swing. When word got out that the conference was going to take place and that John MacArthur was releasing a book of the same name, Dr. Michael Brown appealed to MacArthur to embrace God’s true fire and then addressed R.C. Sproul (a speaker at the conference) before issuing a challenge to the charismatic world (which MennoKnight took as a volley at the Cessationist crowd, though I thought it was addressed more towards Charismatics). In turn, a host of videos were released by John MacArthur (found here) that, in a sense, responded to some of the concerns and questions that Brown made. Furthermore, Fred Butler responded to Brown on behalf of MacArthur and then Brown responded to Butler. Are you keeping track of all of this?
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Strange Fire Turns Toward Strained Polemics
So the firestorm from the Strange Fire Conference has been steadily building throughout the past few weeks and is now in full swing. When word got out that the conference was going to take place and that John MacArthur was releasing a book of the same name, Dr. Michael Brown appealed to MacArthur to embrace God’s true fire and then addressed R.C. Sproul (a speaker at the conference) before issuing a challenge to the charismatic world (which MennoKnight took as a volley at the Cessationist crowd, though I thought it was addressed more towards Charismatics). In turn, a host of videos were released by John MacArthur (found here) that, in a sense, responded to some of the concerns and questions that Brown made. Furthermore, Fred Butler responded to Brown on behalf of MacArthur and then Brown responded to Butler. Are you keeping track of all of this?
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The NIV Application NT Series
Yesterday I noticed that Logos was offering the 20 volume NIV Application Commentary (New Testament) series for a mere $249.99 (retail is $477.99). I tried to resist buying this series, but I ended up figuring it’s such a deal that I mine as well pick it up. I already own four of these, so I’ll probably end up either giving them away or selling them. The series features commentaries by Scot McKnight, Craig Keener, Douglas Moo, Craig Blomberg, Gary Burge, Darrel Bock, and more. It certainly includes some fantastic scholars! The format of the commentary series can be really frustrating, but there’s no doubt that it’s quite practical and is a good commentary series to use when thinking about pastoral issues and application.