Archaeology

	New Orleans Pastor Sees God's Protection, Provision During Hurricane Katrina - Kathy Dean (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Archaeology and the Reliability of the Old Testament - John H. Sailhamer (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	The Conquest and Ancient Near Eastern Warfare: The Element of Fear - Jeffrey J. Niehaus (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Archaeology and the Exodus: A Partial Look - Douglas K. Stuart (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	What Good Is Biblical Archaeology to Bible Readers? - Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.  (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Archaeology and the Reliability of the New Testament - Sean M. McDonough (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Justification by Works of the Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls? - Roy E. Ciampa (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	How Archaeology Helps Bible Interpretation - Aida Besançon Spencer (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Archaeology and the Letters to the Seven Chuches of Asia - Colin R. Nicholl (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	The Top 15 Finds from Biblical Archaeology - Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)

 

 

Book Reviews

Biblical Studies: Old Testament

Introduction to Nehemiah David Malick   Outline of Nehemiah David Malick   Nehemiah   Bob Dunston   Outline of Nehemiah    Bob Dunston   The Chronology of Ezra and Nehemiah   Bob Dunston

Notes on Nehemiah - Thomas L. Constable explains how the book of Nehemiah provides a great illustration of how prayer and hard work can accomplish seemingly impossible things when a person determines to try to trust and obey God.   The Political Tensions Reflected in Ezra-Nehemiah Carl Schultz assists in the understanding of the background to the return of the exiles.   The Nehemiah Memoir – the perils of autobiography  David JA Clines  points out that the Memoir of Nehemiah may be argued to be the most important historiographical source we have in the Old Testament. and probably accept that there is no other historiographical document in the Old Testament that stands so close as the Nehemiah Memoir does to the events it depicts. A text written within a decade of the events described.   Nehemiah 10 as an Example of Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis  David JA Clines  explains how Nehemiah 10 is a small treasure house of postexilic interpretations of earlier Israelite law and feels that  it has not previously been looked at closely from the perspective of its interpretations of older texts. It  is an entity independent of the texts it is commenting on, and does not need to be first peeled off as a younger layer from an apparently unitary text.   Narrative Texts: Chronicles, Ezra & Nehemiah   Ralph W. Klein

From the Totally Unofficial Brueggemann website

From Word and World (Luther Seminary):

The City in Biblical Perspective: Failed and Possible (1999)

Ecumenism as the Shared Practice of a Peculiar Identity (1998)

Haunting Book-Haunted People (1991)

Psalm 109: Three Times 'Steadfast Love (1985)

Remembering Rachel's Children: An Urban Agenda for People Who Notice (1994)

Will Our Faith Have Children? (1983)

The Childs Proposal: A Symposium (1981)

Evangelism and Discipleship: The God Who Calls, the God Who Sends (2004) (not available)

From Theology Today (Princeton Theological Seminary):

Loss and Recovery of Creation in Old Testament Theology (1996)

Preaching as Reimagination (1995)

Rethinking Church Models Through Scripture (1991)

The Preacher, The Text, and The People (1990)

Passion & Perspective: Two Dimensions of Education in the Bible (1985)

From The Words:

On Joseph and His Brother

On Moses (1996)

On the Night of Pharaoh's Surrender (1996)

On Yahweh's Contradiction (1996)

On Jacob's Wrestling Episode (1996)

On the Primary Tension of Old Testament Faith (1992)

Other Articles (mostly from Christian Century):

Counterscript: Living with the Elusive God (2005)

A Disaster of 'Biblical' Proportions? (2005) (unavailable)

Holy Intrusion: The Power of Dreams in the Bible (2005)

19 Theses (2004)

On Scroll-Making in Ancient Jerusalem (2003)

A Text That Redescribes (2002)

Entitled Neighbors: A Biblical Perspective on Living Wage (2002)

Voice Beyond Our Own (2002)

Off by Nine Miles (2001)

Biblical Authority - Modern-day Interpretations of the Bible and Its Authority: A Critical Essay (2001)

A Journey: Attending to the Abyss (PDF) (2000)

The Liturgy of Abundance, the Myth of Scarcity - Consumerism and Religious Life (1999)

The Hope of Heaven … On Earth (1999)

Truth-Telling and Peacemaking: A Reflection on Ezekiel (1998)

Conversations Among Exiles (1997)

Covenant as a Subversive Paradigm (1980)

The Embarrassing Footnote (1987, inaugural lecture at Columbia)

A look at Walter Brueggemann On Biblical Authority

Walter Brueggemann's Theological Perspective on Violence

Alternative Visions of the End

Dayenu and the Blood on the Books (blog story)

No Ideas Just Texts (blog note)

Creative Imagination In The Old Testament

 

Biblical Studies: New Testament

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

    George MacDonald: Life and Religion are One

      John Wycliffe and the Dawn of the Reformation

       Zwingli and Luther: The Giant vs. Hercules

       The Amazingly Graced Life of John Newton

       Tolkien: Man Behind the Myth

       Jonathan Edwards: A Mind on Fire

       G.K. Chesteron: The Road to Rome

       Thomas Aquinas: The Dazzling 'Dumb Ox'

       Dante: Divine Imagination

       The Wesleys: A Tale of Two Brothers

       Jan Hus: To Build a Fire

       Augustine: The Dark Heart Filled With Light

       Augustine's Thinking Faith (Anthony Meredich, Thinking Faith)

       David Livingstone

       William Wilberforce: The Shrimp Who Stopped Slavery

       Hudson Taylor: Pushing Inwards

     
 

 

 

Blogging

    The Death of Blogs (Ted Olsen, Christianity Today 25 September 2007)

 

 

 

Christian Education

    The Theory into Practice Database (50 learning theories)

• ACT* (J. Anderson)
• Adult Learning Theory (P. Cross)
• Algo-Heuristic Theory (L. Landa)
• Andragogy (M. Knowles)
• Anchored Instruction (J. Bransford & the CTGV)
• Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (L. Cronbach & R. Snow)
• Attribution Theory (B. Weiner)
• Cognitive Dissonance Theory (L. Festinger)
• Cognitive Flexibility Theory (R. Spiro)
• Cognitive Load Theory (J. Sweller)
• Component Display Theory (M.D. Merrill)
• Conditions of Learning (R. Gagne)
• Connectionism (E. Thorndike)
• Constructivist Theory (J. Bruner)
• Contiguity Theory (E. Guthrie)
• Conversation Theory (G. Pask)
• Criterion Referenced Instruction (R. Mager)
• Double Loop Learning (C. Argyris)
• Drive Reduction Theory (C. Hull)
• Dual Coding Theory (A. Paivio)
• Elaboration Theory (C. Reigeluth)
• Experiential Learning (C. Rogers)
• Functional Context Theory (T. Sticht)
• Genetic Epistemology (J. Piaget)
• Gestalt Theory (M. Wertheimer)
• GOMS (Card, Moran & Newell)
• GPS (A. Newell & H. Simon)
• Information Pickup Theory (J.J. Gibson)
• Information Processing Theory (G.A. Miller)
• Lateral Thinking (E. DeBono)
• Levels of Processing (Craik & Lockhart)
• Mathematical Learning Theory (R.C. Atkinson)
• Mathematical Problem Solving (A. Schoenfeld)
• Minimalism (J. M. Carroll)
• Model Centered Instruction and Design Layering (A.Gibbons)
• Modes of Learning (D. Rumelhart & D. Norman)
• Multiple Intelligences (H. Gardner)
• Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner)
• Originality (I. Maltzman)
• Phenomenonography (F. Marton & N. Entwistle)
• Repair Theory (K. VanLehn)
• Script Theory (R. Schank)
• Sign Theory (E. Tolman)
• Situated Learning (J. Lave)
• Soar (A. Newell et al.)
• Social Development (L. Vygotsky)
• Social Learning Theory (A. Bandura)
• Stimulus Sampling Theory (W. Estes)
• Structural Learning Theory (J. Scandura)
• Structure of Intellect (J. Guilford)
• Subsumption Theory (D. Ausubel)
• Symbol Systems (G. Salomon)
• Triarchic Theory (R. Sternberg)

    Pedagogics (Joseph Jacobs & Louis Grossman, JewishEncylopedia.com)

Church 

• Church History websites

 

Dark Night of the Soul

    Dr. Luther's tribulation. (Christianity Today editorial, October 2007)

 

Discernment

     Can You Hear God? Ruth Harley Barton (Leadership Journal, Summer 2008)

 What is it that distinguishes spiritual leadership from other kinds of leadership? At the heart of spiritual leadership is discernment—the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and activity of God both personally and in community.

The Israelite journey is really a story of ongoing discernment—learning to recognize the presence of God and then following that Presence wherever it went. For Moses as their leader, this involved entering into God's presence regularly, asking God what he should do, and then leading the people in that way. Moses' ability to trust God and listen and respond obediently to his instructions was so crucial to the Israelites' survival that the one time he failed to follow God's instruction fully, there were grave consequences (Num. 20:10-13).

Unlike Moses, we don't get to talk with God face to face. We must listen deeply. It is no wonder that when Moses recapped the Israelite journey, he emphasized how important discernment had been to the whole operation. He reminded the people of the time God told them to choose leaders to serve as judges under Moses and that the heart of their spiritual leadership was the ability to be wise and discerning (Deut. 1:13). Later he spoke about wisdom and discernment as defining characteristics that distinguished them from other nations. read more .

 

Glocalisation

 

History

    The Great Divorce : Catholics and Orthodox (Mark Galli, Christianity Today, April, 1997)

 

Parenting

 

 

Preaching

    Incarnate Preaching (Gordon MacDonald)

How Can We Preach on Sin? - Kenneth L. Swetland (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)

 

 

 

Sermons

    E.P.I.C. Preaching ( Leonard Sweet)

    True Disciples (Leonard Sweet)

 

Sexuality

    The Joy of Text: Sex in the Bible (Sam Torode. Books & Culture, Sept/Oct 2007)

	The Covenant of Marriage - Gordon Hugenberger (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Questions and Answers on Issues Related to Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage - Gordon Hugenberger (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	God’s Plan and the Mystery of Marriage in the New Testament - Roy E. Ciampa (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Is Marriage an “Evolving Paradigm?” - Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	New Testament and Homosexuality: 4 Myths - Sean McDonough (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)
	Reflections on Same-Sex “Marriage” - John Jefferson Davis (CONTACT Winter 2005/2006)

 

 

Spirituality

    The Rising Interest in Spirituality Today (David Tacey)

 

Spiritual Formation

    Spiritual Formation Corollaries

 

Theology

    Lost in Translation: Versions of the Fall (James K.A. Smith, Books & Culture, Nov/Dec 2007)

    Ongoing Incarnation (Philip Yancey, Christianity Today, January 2008)

    Mustard Seed and Leaven: Reflections on Asian Theology (Nate Jones, Book & Culture Feb 2008)