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Thoughts for the New Year Jan 08, 2016

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Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy, and Camden Bucey discuss reading lists, New Year’s resolutions, church planting, and much more in this free form discussion.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy

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Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Awakening of the Evangelical Mind Jan 07, 2016

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Darryl Hart reviews Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement by Owen Strachan.

Highlights from 2015 Jan 01, 2016

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We ring in the New Year with a retrospective of 2015, bringing to you highlights from twelve of our favorite episodes of the year.

370 — Donald Macleod, Understanding the Atonement
373 — Rita Cefalu, The Sons of God and Daughters of Man in Genesis 6
376 — Vern Poythress, Redeeming Mathematics
378 — Carl Trueman, Luther on the Christian Life
391 — Chris Castaldo, Talking with Catholics about the Gospel
393 — Tony Reinke, Newton on the Christian Life
398 — Bill Edgar, The History and Legacy of the Huguenots
400 — Jim Cassidy, Jeff Waddington, and Camden Bucey, Polemical Theology
403 — Kevin Chiarot, The Unassumed Is the Unhealed
408 — Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., The Eschatological Aspect of the Pauline Conception of the Spirit
411 — Daniel Strange, A Theology of Religions
415 — John Bolt, Bavinck on the Christian Life

Participants: Camden Bucey, Carl Trueman, Chris Castaldo, Daniel Strange, Donald Macleod, Jared Oliphint, Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy, John Bolt, Kevin Chiarot, Richard B. Gaffin Jr., Rita Cefalu, Tony Reinke, Vern Poythress, William Edgar

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Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

A History of Western Philosophy and Theology Dec 25, 2015

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We are pleased to welcome John Frame to the program to speak about his significant new volume, A History of Western Philosophy and Theology (P&R Publishing). Dr. Frame holds the J. D. Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and is the author of many books. He joined us previously to discuss his Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy, John Frame

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Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Genesis 9:8–17 — The Covenant and Its Sign Dec 22, 2015

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In this episode we discuss the covenant that God establishes between Noah, his sons, and with every living creature on the earth. This covenant begins being contemplated back in 8:20 at the conclusion of the reaffirmation of the covenant of grace and continues into chapter 9 with an unveiling of its distinctive sign, the rainbow.

Participants: Adam York, Mark A. Winder, Mark Jenkins, Robert Arendale

A Theological Account of Logic Dec 18, 2015

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Nathaniel Gray Sutanto speaks to us about his paper “Two Theological Accounts of Logic: Theistic Conceptual Realism and a Reformed Archetype-Ectype Model,” published in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Theologians and Christian philosophers have long debated the nature of logic and its relationship to God’s essential being. In this episode, Sutanto details different Reformed models to answering this difficult question. He presents a robust model based on a traditional post-Reformation Reformed scholastic archetype-ectype distinction.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jeff Waddington, Nathaniel Gray Sutanto

Bavinck on the Christian Life Dec 11, 2015

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Today we welcome Dr. John Bolt to speak about his new book Bavinck on the Christian Life: Following Jesus in Faithful Service. Dr. Bolt is the Jean and Kenneth Baker Professor of Systematic Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He served as the editor of the English edition of Bavinck’s magisterial Reformed Dogmatics. Join us as we speak not only of Bavinck’s dogmatic theology, but also how that theology relates to the Christian life.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jim Cassidy, John Bolt, Nathaniel Gray Sutanto

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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

Vos Group #22 — Redemption from Egypt, Part 1 Dec 04, 2015

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We continue our #VosGroup series by opening pages 109–112 of Vos’ book Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments to learn about the factual basis of the Mosaic organization, which consists in the redemption from Egypt.

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

In Defense of the Eschaton Nov 27, 2015

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Bill Dennison brings together the worlds of apologetics and biblical theology just as Cornelius Van Til did with the teaching of his beloved professor Geerhardus Vos. Dr. Dennison serves as Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Covenant College. Listen as we discuss Dr. Dennison’s collection of essays, In Defense of the Eschaton, edited by James Baird.

Previous Episodes with Bill Dennison

Participants: Bill Dennison, Camden Bucey, Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy

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Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Revivalism and Reformed Piety Nov 20, 2015

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Today we speak with D. G. Hart, Glen Clary, and John Terpstra about the relationship between revivalism and Reformed piety. Looking at the history of revival and its influence on the Reformed church we explore how Reformed and Presbyterian churches have has their thinking about covenant nurture altered by the influence of revivals, specially those which were spurred on by the Tennents and Frelinghausen.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Darryl G. Hart, Glen Clary, Jim Cassidy, John Terpstra

Mentioned in this episode:

Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000

Christ the Center 1000 Summit