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Augustine the Bishop

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

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Chris Northcott January 23, 2026 Book Summaries

A Summary of My PhD Thesis

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||PhD Abstract|| A summary of my 2024 doctoral thesis, titled: “Preserving Perseverance: John Owen’s Reception within the History of Reformed Interpretation of Hebrews 6:4–6.”

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Chris Northcott January 16, 2026 Short Articles

The Cross of Christ

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||Book Summary|| This book provides a comprehensive introduction to a full suite of topics that explain the significance of Christ’s death on the cross.

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Chris Northcott April 17, 2025 Book Summaries

Early Calvinist Counterinterpretations of Hebrews 6.4-6: The Distortive and Distractive Power of an Inappropriate Question

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||Conference Talk|| This paper reviews the interpretation of Heb 6:4–6 by early Reformed interpreters (1500s–1700s) with respect to the identification of the people described therein.

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Chris Northcott December 20, 2024 Short Articles

Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality

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||Book Summary|| Johnson’s book tells the story of evangelicalism’s shift from a paradigm of “care” to one of “cure”, and the failure and damage caused by the latter.

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Chris Northcott November 4, 2024 Book Summaries

The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision

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||Book Summary|| This book is valuable for the vision of pastoral ministry that it (re)introduces. Given the kind of challenges that Christianity faces today, church leadership needs to have more heft for the sake of the more intellectual elements of discipleship.

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Chris Northcott October 18, 2024 Book Summaries

Why Young Christians Need Theology

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||Short Article|| The strength to refuse honour to the cultural idols of our day will come from having a clear vision of a bigger God.

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Chris Northcott March 12, 2020 Short Articles
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