I’m no expert on the Middle East, but I think it’s a safe bet to say that Eric Margolis is a better source on Egyptian politics than the entertainers in Congress and talk radio put together. In his articles, The Mideast Burns and Democracy or More Dictatorship for Egypt?, Eric Margolis lays out his thoughts on the Middle East, Egypt, and the Muslim brotherhood. Those who see a Jihadist behind every bush will not like his characterization of the group: Read More
Eric Margolis on the Muslim Brotherhood
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Highlights of Last Night’s Republican Debate
I’m writing these down from my notes, as I copied them, verbatim. To know whether they’re exactly accurate, you’ll have to check the transcript. Read More
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Why I Intend to Study Law
Woe to you lawyers! You load men up with burdens grievous to bear, while you yourselves do not lift a finger to help carry these burdens. Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. You yourselves are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers: they killed them, and you build their tombs! Therefore also the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will slay and persecute, so that the blood of the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Truly I say to you, it will be required of this generations. Woe to you, lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You have not entered in yourselves, and those who were entering in you have hindered.
I intend to be a lawyer because of, not despite, Jesus’ harsh words to lawyers. He implicates them in the destruction of Jerusalem and in the blood of every righteous man slain from the foundations of the earth. It would be an understatement to say that a negative view of lawyers has some scriptural basis. Nevertheless, it is because of the things the wisdom of God says about law that I am choosing lawyering as an occupation rather than trying to make my career in biblical studies, either in academia or behind the pulpit. Read More
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N. T. Wright: “Romans and the Theology of Paul”
It’s thirty-two pages, and it’s here.
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I’ve found the Journal for Christian Reconstruction Online.
Link here. This is the JCR published by Chalcedon, the Rushdoony wing of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, but it existed before the Rushdoony-North split. It was edited by North.
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N. T. Wright on Paul’s Gospel
From his worthwhile speech New Perspectives on Paul:
I begin where Romans begins – with the gospel. My proposal is this. When Paul refers to ‘the gospel’, he is not referring to a system of salvation, though of course the gospel implies and contains this, nor even to the good news that there now is a way of salvation open to all, but rather to the proclamation that the crucified Jesus of Nazareth has been raised from the dead and thereby demonstrated to be both Israel’s Messiah and the world’s true Lord. ‘The gospel’ is not ‘you can be saved, and here’s how’; the gospel, for Paul, is ‘Jesus Christ is Lord’.
Bonus question: In light of the very political connotations of a first-century Jew and Roman citizen saying “Jesus Christ is Lord,” does N.T. Wright believe in biblical theocracy in a way that approximates James B. Jordan’s use of the term? Jordan thinks so.
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Christian Reconstructionism and the Original Languages
I read a lot of stuff by Christian Reconstructionists, mostly because I haven’t yet found any other scholars who grapple as seriously with biblical law from a Christian perspective. It’s a rare biblical scholar who doesn’t either ignore OT law, whitewash OT law, or simply throw up his hands in confusion at it. And yet Read More
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On the Conditions of Salvation: A Response to John Fensel (#6)
You mention that you are confused as to what I think about the conditions of salvation. I will try my best to bring what clarity I can to the question, although I confess that I do not know what God would do with the hypothetical moralizing psychopath that you have created. (As a Christian, however, I trust that he will do what is right for the situation.)
I will begin with the short answer given by Paul and Silas when a man asked them, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They said to him, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household.” That’s the short answer. Read More
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Nicola Rossi’s “Generation of Locusts” Speech Now in English
Nicola Rossi, an Italian economist and politician who sounds like a fine fellow, is unfortunately difficult to learn anything about unless you know English. Thanks to John Hobbins, however, at least one Rossi speech is now online, and it’s a beauty. To read it, go here.
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Full Table of Contents for Every Issue of the Journal of Christian Reconstruction — All in One Place
This post contains a table of all the contents of every issue of the Journal of Christian Reconstruction that can be found on the Chalcedon website. Should you know of more issues, let me know, and I will add them to this post.
The Journal of Christian Reconstruction was begun in 1974 as a ministry of Chalcedon, an institute in which both Rushdoony and Gary North cooperated until their split, and therefore the split of the Reconstructionist movement, in 1981. To the best of my knowledge, Chalcedon continues to be in the hands of the Rushdoony wing, even after Rushdoony’s death in 2001, while the North wing of the movement operates out of Tyler, Texas.
(At least on chalcedon.edu, this journal is also referred to as the Journal for Christian Reconstruction.)
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