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Tim Keller on 'Counterfeit Gods'
You can read the introduction to Tim Keller's new book, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, Power, and the Only Hope That Matters here.You can pre-order it through Westminster Bookstore

N.T. Wright "for Dummies"!
Doug Chaplin has created a list of ten words that should "help you bluff your way through any Tom Wright orientated conversation." So for those of you who are unfamiliar with the writings of N.T. Wright, yet you want to converse with those who seem to think that there are no other New Testament scholars on this planet, here is your list:1. Jewish. Christianity is a reboot of Jewish monotheism. The New Testament is a Jewish book. Christianity is Jewish. Jesus is Jewish and Paul is Jewish. It isn’t a new story but is the continuation of the old story that goes back to creation and fall.2. Election

Tim Keller on Exclusivism
Today I have already mentioned Terry Tiesen's definition of "Gospel Exclusivism" (here) and D.W. Congdon's "Christocentric-Missional Universalism" (

D.W. Congdon on "Christocentric-Missional Universalism"
D.W. Congdon is a PhD student at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written an article for Testamentum Imperium: An International Theological Journal titled "The Problem With Double Predestination and the Case for Christocentric-Missional Universalism". In this article he argues that the debate amongst Protestants between Calvinism and Arminianism is wrongheaded. Against Armnianism he affirms Calvinism's critique of so-called "human freedom" (p. 4). Against Calvinism he critiques "instrumental soteriology" where "Jesus Christ is not himself constitutive of what salvation is or who is saved; he merely fulfills a divine decision