by Richard Barcellos | Apr 20, 2011 | Books, Current Events
Coming soon: RBTR VII:1, Spring 2010
ARTICLES
“EPHESIANS 1:8-10 IN LIGHT OF ITS IMMEDIATE CONTEXTUAL MEANING AND REDEMPTIVE-HISTORICAL/CANONICAL CONTEXT: God Getting Glory for Himself through the Work of the Redeemer and Reconciler of All Things,” Richard C. Barcellos, 7-35.
“ADAM’S QUEST FOR A BETTER LIFE: A Study in Calvin’s Doctrine of Pre-Redemptive Eschatology,” James E. Dolezal, 37-50.
“THE SUM OF ALL BLESSINGS: Jonathan Edwards on the Holy Spirit,” W. Gary Crampton, Th.D., 51-77.
“THE CHRISTIAN AND THE SABBATH, TOM WELLS: A Review Article (Part I),” Richard C. Barcellos, 79-91.
BOOK REVIEWS
Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church, Michael Horton (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), and The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World, Michael Horton (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2009), reviewed by John Divito, 93-97.
Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew, Jonathan T. Pennignton (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), 399pp, reviewed by Samuel C. Emadi, 97-101.
Imputation and Impartation: Union with Christ in American Reformed Theology, William B. Evans (Wipf & Stock, 2009, 296 pp.), reviewed by Matthew Barrett, 102-106.
That Scripture Might Be Fulfilled: Typology and the Death of Christ, Paul M. Hoskins (Xulon Press: 2009, 200pp.), reviewed by Richard C. Barcellos, 106-108.
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Mark F. Rooker (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2010, 234pp.), reviewed by Richard C. Barcellos, 108-114.
Dr. Richard Barcellos is associate professor of New Testament Studies. He received a B.S. from California State University, Fresno, an M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary, and a Th.M. and Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary. Dr. Barcellos is pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA. He is author of Trinity & Creation, The Covenant of Works, and Getting the Garden Right. He has contributed articles to various journals and is a member of ETS.
Courses taught for CBTS: New Testament Introduction, Biblical Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology I, Biblical Theology II.
by Richard Barcellos | Apr 16, 2011 | Biblical Theology, Current Events, Ecclesiology, Historical Theology, Practical Theology
The liturgical calendar seems to be the cool thing these days. I think the liturgical calendar was instituted with Dominical authority – 52 Lord’s Days per year!
Dr. Richard Barcellos is associate professor of New Testament Studies. He received a B.S. from California State University, Fresno, an M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary, and a Th.M. and Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary. Dr. Barcellos is pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA. He is author of Trinity & Creation, The Covenant of Works, and Getting the Garden Right. He has contributed articles to various journals and is a member of ETS.
Courses taught for CBTS: New Testament Introduction, Biblical Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology I, Biblical Theology II.
by Richard Barcellos | Apr 16, 2011 | Current Events, Practical Theology
Carl Trueman has done it again. Surely some Americans will be offended, which he would say proves his point. Read it here, if you can handle it.
Dr. Richard Barcellos is associate professor of New Testament Studies. He received a B.S. from California State University, Fresno, an M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary, and a Th.M. and Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary. Dr. Barcellos is pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA. He is author of Trinity & Creation, The Covenant of Works, and Getting the Garden Right. He has contributed articles to various journals and is a member of ETS.
Courses taught for CBTS: New Testament Introduction, Biblical Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology I, Biblical Theology II.
by Richard Barcellos | Apr 16, 2011 | Ecclesiology, New Testament, Practical Theology
I do not think 2 Cor. 6:14 is a universal prohibition forbidding every sort of social relationship with unbelievers. For then, as Paul said elsewhere, we would have to go out of the world and believers already married to unbelievers would have to divorce them, which Paul does not advocate. I think he means at least things like marrying known unbelievers (1 Cor. 7) and participating in pagan rituals (1 Cor. 10:14-22). He dealt with these things in the first letter to Corinth.
BTW, when you take a job that entails submitting to an unbelieving employer, you are, in effect, selling your skills (not your entire being) to him for a price. IOW, you are going into business with him. You promise work; he promises money. Paul dealt with that, too, but never advocated not working for unbelievers.
I am of the opinion that the Bible does not forbid business partnerships
with unbelievers, though these must be entered into with great care.
Dr. Richard Barcellos is associate professor of New Testament Studies. He received a B.S. from California State University, Fresno, an M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary, and a Th.M. and Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary. Dr. Barcellos is pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA. He is author of Trinity & Creation, The Covenant of Works, and Getting the Garden Right. He has contributed articles to various journals and is a member of ETS.
Courses taught for CBTS: New Testament Introduction, Biblical Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology I, Biblical Theology II.
by Richard Barcellos | Apr 15, 2011 | Biblical Theology, Eschatology, Hermeneutics, New Testament, Old Testament, Preaching, Soteriology, Systematic Theology
“Then come the “experts.” They huff and snort that there is no theme that has been resumed. They deny that this rhythm sounds like that one. They insist that when these notes in this melody are taken apart, they bear no relation to one another. They explain that this beat cannot possibly be related to that one, and that the meaning some heard in that first syncopation was never there in the first place.
But we’ve heard the music, and for all the seeming intelligence of their explanations, we know what the music does to us. Those notes may be nothing in isolation, but in aggregate they form a song more lovely than the lectures of learned scoffers. We know this melody is meant to evoke earlier ones, and as soon as we hear the music again, the denials of the little men behind the microphones lose all power to compel. The strains of hope and longing that we have heard awaken faith and conviction and boldness, even as the academics drone on in their boring refusal to enjoy the music.”
You can read the brief article here. I highly recommend it!
Dr. Richard Barcellos is associate professor of New Testament Studies. He received a B.S. from California State University, Fresno, an M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary, and a Th.M. and Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary. Dr. Barcellos is pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Palmdale, CA. He is author of Trinity & Creation, The Covenant of Works, and Getting the Garden Right. He has contributed articles to various journals and is a member of ETS.
Courses taught for CBTS: New Testament Introduction, Biblical Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology I, Biblical Theology II.
