The Providence Theological Seminary Doctrinal Conference will be on July 24-27 this year. If interested in New Covenant Theology, and specifically the NT use of the OT, you may be interested in coming. I will be giving a talk on the Abrahamic Covenant in the letter to the Galatians. Here is the registration info. Here is the schedule with the list of speakers.
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I wish I was living back in the U.S. again. We lived in Columbus, Ohio the whole of 1999-2000, then returned to South Africa.
We hardly ever have such conferences here, and certainly not NCT conferences.
I hear you. Praise God for technology!
~ Jim McDermott ~
It should be excellent, Blake; I'm glad that you're among the presenters. I had to shut down my computer after clicking link to list of speakers, btw; it may be that my computer being in the midst of a "tune-up" is the reason for the problem.
May tomorrow / this week go well for you and for NCT. Your regular readers apparently have limited appreciation of John Riesinger's contribution to defense of Truth / NCT -- given the lack of comment wrt your March 1 blogpost.
The subject of your March 1 blogpost is tragic; alas, it was inevitable. That it didn't surprise me (indeed, I exhorted to no avail that the problem be quashed) in no way lessens my sympathy for JGR. What he'd previously endured for the sake of Truth surely hurt him; this one surely hurts him incomparably.
I remain astonished that one of your fellow JBC speakers was even considered. Thankfully, that which he has "spearheaded" appears to be rightfully being marginalized. Alas, its fallout has disillusioned even men who have fought to be part of the solution, like Kerry Kinchen. May you, Blake, continue to be part of the solution and may this week give confidence to Kerry and others that the NCT ship is being righted.
I read the .pdf of Dr. Gilliland's 2011 presentation [linked via PTS' homepage (linked via your blogpost above)]; within his conclusion regarding the "role" of imperatives, he asserted:
"In spite of a desire to magnify the work of Christ and our freedom in Christ, much of today's theology -- by minimizing the importance of the Word of God -- leads to a man-centered 'Christianity'."
That you quoted the assertion of F.F. Bruce via your March 20 blogpost surprised and disconcerted me; Paul's reference to "commandments and ordinances" pertains to the old covenant. Had Paul believed consistently with F.F. Bruce's assertion's implication, Paul's letters would have been incomparably different.
The error promulgated by ostensible NCT proponents which has immeasurably harmed NCT is rooted in failure to understand the old covenant -- failure to understand Israel -- resulting in concomitant failure to understand the new covenant.
Keep cutting it straight, Blake!
Thanks Jim! It was a good week.
Rest assured I have muchos problemos with Bruce's view of "liberty."
The point of those posts is just to show the wide array of scholars that would generally fall in line with NCT.
Blessings in Christ,
Blake
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