My Life as a Bible Teacher By Christopher Holmes I am a systematic theologian by training, disposition, and vocation. I am grateful for this call, difficult and daunting though it is. What has surprised me most as I muddle along throu... Read More...
The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching By Tyler Been In March of 1933 Karl Barth delivered a lecture, “The First Commandment as Theological Axiom” (cited parenthetically hereafter). This lecture is fascinating for several of reasons. First, it i... Read More...
Centered on Christ Crucified 1 Corinthians By Kimlyn J. Bender Brazos Press, pp. 298, $35 Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger When the first volume of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible appeared 15 years ago, the series promised to fill a much-needed lacuna in theological... Read More...
Karl Barth and Modern Crisis By Samuel Cripps I left the Episcopal Church once. I left because I was still a teenager, and like many young people, I was unstable in my faith, but also, and not insignificantly, because I couldn’t recogni... Read More...
Roundtable: Why I Write for Covenant (Thomas Kincaid) Periodically, we like to take stock of our work and mission. How can Covenant best serve the Anglican Communion and wider Christian family? And how do we think about the breadth of our writing? For the next few... Read More...
Reading Scripture as Centered on Jesus The Swiss theologian’s striking insights on core Christian doctrines glisten through this superb collection of essays plumbing his engagements with gospel texts.
Proclaiming a Strange New World Barth asked: What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?