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Who indeed are you?
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xscot mcknight
No one could dispute the force of Paul’s heavy hand in Romans 9:19-24. After advocating that God’s elective grace has been at work from the time of Abraham on, it is only natural (in Paul’s sense of the term) for someone to stand up and say that God could not then find fault with the…
Computers in Class: Not!
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xscot mcknight
It came to my attention too late to do anything about it last semester, but I heard from a student or two by accident that a few students were sitting in the back of the class and surfing the net on their computers — and writing e-mail. I’m not sure what you would do (if…
Piny Pek
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xscot mcknight
I’m not sure how to describe Hope in the Dark. It is a book of pictures by Jeremy Cowart with some textual observations by Jena Lee. What about? Life in Africa. Visual, real, and not staged. You will not find here pictures of children with swollen bellies, but instead you will encounter the ordinary realities…
Who is “Israel”?
By
xscot mcknight
Let us just say that a friend of mine gently reminded me (on the phone last Friday) that this might be a good opportunity to ask a much-neglected question in Romans study: Who is “Israel” in Romans? I’m willing to gamble on this one: most of us instinctively think “Israel” refers to one of two…
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