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An Email about Authority and Mathematics, Part 3 (Binding Examples)

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Jay F Guin

We pick up with Minghui’s responses to my examples for authorized things that do not meet the standards of CENI. (For those readers coming in late, I’m attempting to show that CENI/the Regulative Principle are not real rules, and indeed … Continue reading →

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An Email about Authority and Mathematics, Part 2 (CENI explained)

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Jay F Guin

Last week, I posted “An Email about Authority and Mathematics” in response to a question I received re a young brother, a mathematician, with questions re certain traditional Church of Christ teachings. On Tuesday, my mathematician brother, whom I now … Continue reading →

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A Framework for Discussing Baptism

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Jay F Guin

I am again borrowing from the comments, this time from a series of comments by me under Paul and the Faithfulness of God: Baptism and the Eucharist. For a little background, I reference N. T. Wright’s point that baptism serves … Continue reading →

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CENI: Is CENI a Hermeneutic?

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jay F Guin

I occasionally move a comment I wrote to the main page, since most readers (I suspect) don’t read all the comments — and I’m bad to write too-long comments that I should save for posts. Jason wrote, “The problem with this … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Storment: Strange Fire and Churches of Christ

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Jay F Guin

I’m looking forward to working on Wineskins together with its featured authors (see list in the righthand column). Among the featured authors is Jonathan Storment, the pulpit minister for the Highlands congregation in Abilene, who blogs at Part of a … Continue reading →

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An Email about Authority and Mathematics

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Jay F Guin

I get emails — I’m trying to help a bright young brother, who recently got his Ph.D. in math. He wrote that the church he was now attending was the only “conservative” church of Christ in the city. I asked … Continue reading →

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Paul and the Faithfulness of God: Wrapping Up Volume 1, Part 2

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Jay F Guin

We are considering N. T. Wright’s newly released Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God) — a massive and masterful consideration of Paul’s theology. A Summary of Paul’s Worldview We’ve considered in the recent posts … Continue reading →

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Paul and the Faithfulness of God: Wrapping Up Volume 1, Part 1

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Jay F Guin

We are considering N. T. Wright’s newly released Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God) — a massive and masterful consideration of Paul’s theology. The book is written in four parts, with two parts apiece … Continue reading →

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Paul and the Faithfulness of God: Baptism and the Eucharist

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Jay F Guin

We are considering N. T. Wright’s newly released Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God) — a massive and masterful consideration of Paul’s theology. Beginning at p. 426, Wright briefly considers baptism as a symbol … Continue reading →

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Paul and the Faithfulness of God: The Unity of the Church

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Jay F Guin

We are considering N. T. Wright’s newly released Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God) — a massive and masterful consideration of Paul’s theology. After reviewing Paul’s reworking of the symbols of the Jewish worldview, … Continue reading →

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