Viewing 51 posts by Andrew Wilson

  • Christianity in China

    Christopher Harding is an expert on the modern history of East Asia, a lecturer on Asian history at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of last year's The Light... Read more
  • The Righteousness of God, Revisited

    Twenty years ago, it seemed you couldn't read a theological blog - or even a work of New Testament studies - without encountering protracted debate about the meaning of... Read more
  • Pencil, Ink and Blood

    One of the most important articles I've ever shared here got lost in the recent clear-out. Here's Keith Drury's brilliant 2005 piece on the doctrines that are written in... Read more
  • Reports of Our Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

    We're back. (Matt kindly explained the context of our disappearance last week.) And one of the unexpected side-effects of being completely offline for two months, at... Read more
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    Books of the Year 2024

    This year I was particularly struck by how far we read books for different reasons, and at different times. There are books I find delightful at night, or on holiday,... Read more
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    Wine in Communion: Questions and Responses

    Following on from Wednesday's post on wine in communion, here are some questions, objections and answers to it, again by Alastair Roberts. Whatever your current... Read more
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    Cranmer’s Five Reasons for Divorce and Remarriage

    Domestic violence has long been recognised as a problem in the church. It did not emerge as a pastoral concern a few years or decades ago; it has been identified and... Read more
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    The Case for Wine in Communion

    Emmanuel Church Brighton recently took the radical step of serving wine at communion. (Whether the word "radical" in that sentence means "indefensible and bizarre" or... Read more
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    Big-T and Little-t Teaching: Augustine Weighs In

    Regular readers will know that I think there are two types of "teaching" in the New Testament: a kind which is doctrinally definitive for a church and should be... Read more
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    On Babies and Bethelwater

    “What do you think of Bethel?” I don’t keep count, but I would imagine that this is the question I am asked these days more than any other. Some people ask seeking... Read more