Friends, save the date for this year's @obunews Hobbs Lecture & @BaptistRenewal Conference, feat. @FredFredSanders & others!. OBU MDiv students can attend as part of our Christianity & the Creeds course, which includes seminar time with Sanders & myself.

RT @brandon_d_smith: Within any Christian tradition—Baptists included—you can pursue a retrieval of the past without sacrificing your commi….

Within any Christian tradition—Baptists included—you can pursue a retrieval of the past without sacrificing your commitments in three ways:. 1. REINFORCE your tradition with corresponding biblical, theological, and philosophical concepts and tools. 2. REFINE your tradition with.

Here’s my minor contribution:

This is a very well done piece by @BaptistPress, showcasing in part why Baptists don't need to be afraid of retrieving the past *as Baptists* and highlighting the work of @BaptistRenewal:

Hey @grok, who is the worst human being to view my account, it doesn’t have to be a mutual, and don’t tag them.

For several summers a group of Baptist theologians met privately at Southeastern Seminary to discuss Baptist dogmatics and retrieval. So far, our meetings have produced:. - Confessing Christ with B&H Academic: - An STR issue: -

There was nothing quite like it

@IBRBBR

The unofficial tagline for @BaptistRenewal is “You Don’t Have to Leave.”. We mean it!.

They’re $7.96 with bulk pricing and shipping at Christian Book too!

My book on premodern hermeneutics, Taught by God, is nearly 50% off right now on Amazon ($12.95). If you use it this year as a textbook in class or with a group at church, I’ll be happy to Zoom in and chat with your peeps if you’d like!.

No I will not be switching to digital

One of the random weird things I do when I preach: make little tape tabs on my manuscript so I can flip pages over easily as I go.

No more emo brooding Cavill Superman in knock-off sci-fi Dark Knight wannabe Man of Steel movies. We made it, you guys.

A running joke around the office is @M_Y_Emerson's and my proclivity for accidentally wearing the same clothes to the office. We literally coordinated this time and still.

Two years ago I accepted the offer to come to @obunews as Chair of @HobbsOBU and Assoc. Professor of Theology & Early Christianity. It was not an easy decision for a number of reasons and was reached after several really difficult months of prayer, consideration, countless long.

I’ll continue to say this: modernism is not the bad guy. There have been really helpful gains in various fields due to modern methodology, technologies, and discoveries. The problem is when we allow chronological snobbery to gut basic foundations of historic Christian belief.

There are two versions of modernistic critical snobbery that can hinder and/or threaten Christian biblical, theological, and philosophical scholarship and ministry if not carefully appropriated:. 1. A type of literary and historical criticism which sees Scripture as mostly.