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Augustine the Bishop

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||Book Summary|| Readers interested in the possibility and practice of being a “pastor-theologian” will find this lengthy book a delightful if sobering picture of the realities of church ministry.

Chris Northcott January 23, 2026 Book Summaries

“The Furnace of Divine Wrath”: Providence in John Owen’s Preaching on the Plague and Fire of London

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||Article|| Should we see God’s hand of judgement in COVID-19? The experience of John Owen in the later 1660s suggests we should be cautious about doing so.

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Chris Northcott December 20, 2021 Short Articles

The Practice of Biblical Reception History and the Tesseract of the MCU

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||Short Article|| Reception history provides a useful and exciting set of new tools for studying the Bible, which I am confident will be a much more fruitful and satisfying endeavour than studying the film-texts that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

Chris Northcott August 22, 2021 Short Articles

The History of Theological Education

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||Book Summary|| Noted church historian Justo L. Gonzalez does what professional historians usually don’t – he tells a history in order to make a point about the present.

Chris Northcott July 17, 2021 Book Summaries
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