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Listener Q&A: Culture, the Soul, and Inclusivism Feb 12, 2016

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Today we open the email inbox and address a variety of your questions. We touch on Van Til and Vos on culture, neo-Calvinism, theological anthropology, and whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy

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Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

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Vos Group #24 — Redemption from Egypt, Part 3 Feb 05, 2016

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We continue our #VosGroup series by opening pages 119–121 of Vos’ book Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments to consider the Passover as an expiation for sin and its function in transferring God’s people to a new blessed realm.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Lane G. Tipton

Total Depravity Feb 05, 2016

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On episode 13, your hosts Rob McKenzie and Bob Tarullo, discuss the doctrine of Total Depravity and how this important teaching of Scripture relates to you.

Theology Simply Profound is a podcast of Westminster Presbyterian Church, an Orthodox Presbyterian Church, serving the western suburbs of Chicago where God powerfully speaks through his means of grace.

Theology Simply Profound is where simple Christians discuss the profound things of God.

Music credit: pamelayork.com. Thank you, Pamela York, for the use of your beautiful jazzy rendition of “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” We encourage our listeners to check out her website and consider purchasing some of her music.

Participants: Rob McKenzie, Robert Tarullo

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The Confessional Presbyterian Journal, Volume 11 Jan 29, 2016

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We discuss the latest issue of the Confessional Presbyterian Journal, which contains contributions from John Murray, Carl Trueman, Mark Jones, Glen Clary, and many others.

Articles

“John Murray” by Danny E. Olinger
“The Regulative Principle of Worship & Song in the Public Worship of God” by John Murray
“Sanctification, the Law, and Good Works: Their Relationship in the American Reformed Tradition” by C. N. Willborn
“The Church’s Care for the Penitent: Some Considerations” by Joseph E. Rolison
“An Exposition of Psalm 68” by Benjamin Shaw
“Strange Bedfellows: Darwinism and the Reformed Theological Tradition” by Mark Jones
“The Christian Ministry in the Church: Its Reasons, Duration and Goal, and Practical Effects (Ephesians 4:11–16), with Special Emphasis on verse 12” by Richard C. Barcellos
“Let’s Do Presbyterianism: The Trinitarian Foundations of Biblical Church Polity” by James J. Cassidy
“James Bannerman’s The Church of Christ: A Tract for these Times” by Carl R. Trueman
“Rites & Ceremonies in Public Worship” by James Bannerman
“Holy Communion and Revivalism in the First Great Awakening” by Glen J. Clary
“How Free Was Adam’s Will? Examining John Lafayette Girardeau’s Critique of Jonathan Edwards’ View of Adam’s Will Before the Fall” by Caleb Cangelosi
“Which Comes First, the Intellect or the Will? Alvin Plantinga and Jonathan Edwards on a Perennial Question” by Jeffrey C. Waddington
“William Perkins: Augustine’s Protégé & Father of Puritan Theology” by Barry Waugh
“American Presbyterianism and the Religious Observance of Christmas” by Chris Coldwell and Andrew J. Webb
Sic et Non. Views in Review: The Content of Song for the Public Worship of God

Reviews

Reviews & Responses: Franciscus Junius, The Mosaic Polity (Jeffrey C. Waddington)
Gerald Bray, God Has Spoken: A History of Christian Theology (Carl R. Trueman)
Mees te Velde, et al., Correctly Handling the Word of Truth: Reformed Hermeneutics Today (Benjamin Shaw)
N. T. Wright, Surprised By Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues (Jeffrey Stivason)
Willem J. van Asselt et al., Synopsis Purioris Theologiae/Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text and English Translation—Volume 1 (Wes Bredenhof)

Other Departments

Psallo: Psalm 92:1–15
In Translatiōne: Johannes Wollebius’ Præcognita of Christian Theology from Compendium Theologiæ Christianæ
Antiquary: Rediscovery of the Manuscripts of the Larger Catechism of Westminster Assembly of Divines; with extracts from The Larger Catechism of the Westminster Assembly: A Transcription of the Surviving Manuscripts with Notes.
Bibliography
The Editors and Contributing Editors In Brief:
- The Sabbath vs. the Liturgical Calendar
- Union with Christ and Mysticism

Related Episodes

Jim Cassidy, “Let’s Do Presbyterianism: The Trinitarian Foundations for Biblical and Church Polity,” an address from our 2015 Theology Conference
Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. and Lane Tipton, “The Eschatological Aspect of the Pauline Concept of the Spirit
pre-conference discussion from the 2015 Theology Conference
Lane Tipton, “Redemptive-Historical Hermeneutics, Divine Authorship, and the Christotelism Debate,” pre-conference discussion from the 2014 Theology Conference
Jeff Waddington, “Which Comes First, the Intellect or the Will?“
Darryl G. Hart, Glen Clary, John Terpstra, and Jim Cassidy, “Revivalism and Reformed Piety“

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy

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Creation and the Fall of Mankind in Adam Jan 25, 2016

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On episode 12, your hosts Rob McKenzie and Bob Tarullo, discuss the importance of the historic creation account and the fall of mankind in a historical Adam.

Music credit: pamelayork.com. Thank you, Pamela, for the use of your beautiful jazzy rendition of “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” We encourage you check out her sight and buy some of her music.

Participants: Rob McKenzie, Robert Tarullo

Excommunication, Dissociation, and 1 Corinthians 5 Jan 22, 2016

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Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 5:11, “But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.” These words have elicited several different interpretations. In this episode, Glen Clary leads us in a conversation about church discipline, and specifically, the nature and appropriateness of disassociation from those under this form of discipline.

Links

Mortification of Spin, “Excommunication: Why? How?“

Participants: Camden Bucey, Glen Clary, Jim Cassidy

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Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

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Garden Mandates Jan 16, 2016

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On episode 11, your hosts Rob McKenzie and Bob Tarullo, discuss the Creation Ordinances or Garden Mandates and how they might carry over to living as new creatures in Christ

Music credit: pamelayork.com. Thank you, Pamela, for the use of your beautiful jazzy rendition of “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” We encourage you check out her sight and buy some of her music.

Participants: Rob McKenzie, Robert Tarullo

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Christ the Center 1000

Vos Group #23 — Redemption from Egypt, Part 2 Jan 15, 2016

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We continue our #VosGroup series by opening pages 114–119 of Vos’ book Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments to consider the name ‘Jehovah’/YHWH as it has been revealed in Exodus 3 and emphasized again in Exodus 6.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Lane G. Tipton

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Christ the Center 1000

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

The Creation of Man Jan 08, 2016

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Welcome to Theology Simply Profound: a Podcast of Westminster Presbyterian Church, an Orthodox Presbyterian Church, serving the western suburbs of Chicago.

Theology Simply Profound is where simple Christians discuss the profound things of God.

On episode 9, your hosts Rob McKenzie and Bob Tarullo, discuss the topic of Man’s Creation. Why did God create man? Was God lonely? Did God create man?

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Participants: Rob McKenzie, Robert Tarullo

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Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? Jan 08, 2016

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On episode 10, your hosts Rob McKenzie and Bob Tarullo, discuss the question that has recently become popular in the news and blogosphere, “Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?” We encourage you to also read Kevin DeYoung’s brief post on this subject, “Thinking Theologically About Islam”

Theology Simply Profound is a podcast of Westminster Presbyterian Church, an Orthodox Presbyterian Church, serving the western suburbs of Chicago.

Music credit: www.pamelayork.com. Thank you Pamela for the use of your beautiful jazzy rendition of “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” We encourage you check out her sight and buy some of her music.

Participants: Rob McKenzie, Robert Tarullo

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Christ the Center 1000