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Gervais Angel on A Positive Approach to the Gospels

2012-05-31T07:14:00.001Z

Thanks to the kind permission of the author the following monograph is now available on-line in PDF:

Gervais Angel, A Positive Approach to the Gospels. Leicester: Religious & Theological Students Fellowship, n.d.. Pbk. ISBN: 1870137051. pp.24.

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David Smith on Marx and Jesus in a Post-communist World

2012-05-30T07:25:00.000Z

Thanks to the kind permission of the author the following monograph is now available on-line in PDF:

David Smith, Marx and Jesus in a Post-communist World. Leicester: Religious & Theological Studies Fellowship, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 1870137140. pp.33.

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Peter Balla's article "Is the Law Abolished According to Eph. 2:15?" and more

2012-05-29T07:14:00.001Z

Thanks tot he kind permission of Dr Peter Balla the following articles are now available on-line in PDF:

Peter Balla, "Is the Law Abolished According to Eph. 2:15," European Journal of Theology 3.1 (1994): 9-16.

Peter Balla, "Does Acts 2:36 Represent an Adoptionist Christology?" European Journal of Theology 5.2 (1996): 137-142.

Peter Balla, "Did All the First Christians Have to Leave Their Parents," European Journal of Theology 7.2 (1998): 101-112.

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F.F. Bruce on Paul and the Mind of Christ

2012-05-28T12:45:00.000Z

The following rare monograph is now available on-line in PDF:

F.F. Bruce, Paul and the Mind of Christ. Leicester: Religious & Theological Students Fellowship, 1982. Pbk. pp.43.

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Mainstream (Baptists for Life and Growth) Newsletter Now On-line

2012-05-18T00:30:00.000Z

The newsletter "Mainstream (Baptists for Life and Growth / A Word & Spirit Network)" [1979-2001] can now be accessed here:

http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_mainstream_01.php

My thanks to Judy Powles for the loan of the Spurgeon's College library set and to Rev Stephen Rand (the current editor) for his permission to place the series on-line. Issues 47-49 will be added as copies become available for scanning.

This is a valuable addition to the sites growing collection sources relating to UK (and Baptist) church history.

Steve Walton on What the 'Acts of the Apostles' is all about

2012-05-04T19:32:00.000Z

With thanks again to Steve Walton for his kind permission, the following article is now on-line in PDF:

Steve Walton, "The Acts - of God? What is the 'Acts of the Apostles' all about?" The Evangelical Quarterly 80.4 (October 2008): 291-306.

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Steve Walton on "Primitive communism in Acts?"

2012-05-02T12:28:00.002Z

With my thanks to Dr Walton for his kind permission, the following article is now available on-line in PDF:

Steve Walton, "Primitive communism in Acts? Does Acts present the community of goods (2:44-45; 4:32-35) as mistaken?" The Evangelical Quarterly 80.2 (April 2008): 99-111.

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R.T. France Dies aged 83

2012-04-19T18:00:00.000Z

Richard T. France (1928-2012)

I learned somewhat belatedly yesterday of the death R.T. France - see his obituary in The Telegraph. I corresponded with Dr France several times over the last ten years and he always seemed surprised that anyone would still find his older works of any use. I think he was mistaken in this:

R.T. France, "Inerrancy and New Testament Exegesis," Themelios 1.1 (1975): 12-18. Download here.

R.T. France, "Exegesis in Practice: Two Examples," I. Howard Marshall, ed., New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods, 1977. Carlisle: The Paternoster Press, revised 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0853644241. pp.252-281. Download here.

Richard T. France, "The Worship of Jesus (Laing Lecture for 1980)," Vox Evangelica 12 (1981): 19-33. Download here.

R.T. France, "Chronological Aspects of 'Gospel Harmony'," Vox Evangelica 16 (1986): 33-60. Download here.

Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society now on-line

2012-04-18T13:00:00.000Z

I am now able to tell you all about the project I have been working since the beginning of January. The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, which will be of great interest to anyone studying the Wesleys, Methodism and modern Church History are now available in PDF for free open access from Volume 1 (1897) to Volume 55 (2006) here. They complement the Tranactions of the Baptist Historical Society / Baptist Quarterly digitised and uploaded to the site last year.

I currently have two more major digitisation projects in hand, for which I am awaiting official permission to proceed. It looks like being a very busy year.

Foundations Journal now on-line

2012-04-09T17:20:00.000Z

Foundations, formerly the Journal of the British Evangelical Council, is now on-line in PDF format. Affinity (the new name for the B.E.C.) host the journal on their website. It was great to work with Matthew Evans from Affinity to digitise this series. I would also like to thank the librarians of Redcliffe College and Spurgeon's College for their kind assistance in providing original copies for scanning..

Rob van Houwelingen on Riddles Around the Letter to the Hebrews

2012-04-02T01:00:00.000Z

Thanks to the kind permission of the author and the editor of Fides Reformata the following article is now available on-line in PDF:

Rob van Houwelingen, "Riddles Around the Letter to the Hebrews," Fides Reformata 16.2 (2011): 151-162.

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Arthur Skevington Wood on Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture

2012-03-19T19:27:00.000Z

Thanks to the kind permission of Paternoster Press the following book is now available on-line:

Arthur Skevington Wood, Captive to the Word. Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture. Exeter: The Paternoster Press. 1969. Hbk. ISBN: 0853640874. pp.192.

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I would like to contact Rev Dr Wood's literary executor - if you know who that might be, please contact me.

I was able to buy this book to scan because of a donation I received from a supporter. If you would like to be part of this work, please click here to find out how.

Business cards available for Theology on the Web

2012-03-08T10:46:00.000Z

I have had new cards made for those teaching theology classes and librarians to pass on to their students if they find the sites helpful.

If you can use some then please contact me and I will post them out to you.

For other ways to support the sites, click here.

P.H.R. van Houwelingen, "‘Paradise Motifs in the Book of Revelation’

2012-03-06T14:02:00.002Z

The following article is now available on-line in PDF. Visit the new additions page for the link.

P.H.R. van Houwelingen, "‘Paradise Motifs in the Book of Revelation’," Sárospataki Füzetek 15.4 (2011): 11-25. [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

My thanks to Dr Houwelingen for his kind permission.

David Searle on Ephesians 6:12 [3 articles]

2012-02-14T20:46:00.001Z

With thanks to Dr Searle for his kind permission, the following articles are now on-line in PDF:

David Searle, “Ephesians 6:12 The True Nature of the Believer's Conflict,” Evangel 14:1 (1996): 4-8.

David Searle, “Ephesians 6:12 Struggling against the Rulers, Against the Authorities,” Evangel 14:3 (1996): 68-71.

David Searle, "Ephesians 6:12. The Powers of Darkness, Against the powers of this dark world (part 3 of 3)," Evangel 15.1 (Spring 1997): 2-6.

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Steve Brady on Restoring Your Vision-With Nehemiah

2012-02-13T19:03:00.001Z

With thanks to Dr Steve Brady for his kind permission, the following articles are now available on-line in PDF:

Steve Brady, “Restoring Your Vision-With Nehemiah,” Evangel 12:2 (1994): 34-36.

Steve Brady, “Restoring Your Vision 2,” Evangel 12:3 (1994): 66-68.

Steve Brady, “Restoring Your Vision - With Nehemiah [3],” Evangel 13:1 (1995): 2-5.

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John W. Wenham on the New Testament Text

2012-02-13T18:40:00.001Z

The following article is now available on-line in PDF. My thanks to the Wenham family for their kind permission:

John W. Wenham, “The New Testament Text,” Evangel 12:2 (1994): 54-60.

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Top 15 Downloads in January

2012-02-01T18:58:00.002Z

I haven't been able to blog much recently because I am working on a major digitisation project and can't publish any details about it yet. However, I thought that readers might be interested in seeing what site viisitors to www.biblicalstudies.org.uk were most interested in reading last month

1) Figures of Speech (Rob Bradshaw)
2) Alpha and Omega (James M. Boice)
3) Applying the Old Testament Law Today (J. Daniel Hays)
4) The Purposes Behind Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians (Rob Bradshaw)
5) The Ancient Near Eastern Treatises and the Old Testament (J.A. Thompson)
6) Elijah (Rob Bradshaw)
7) The Cross of Christ (Rob Bradshaw)
8) The History of New Testament Study (F.F. Bruce)
9) The Trinitarian Ontology of John Zizioulas (John G.F. Wilks)
10) Sir William M. Ramsay:(W. Ward Gasque)
11) Pentatechal Criticism and Interpretation (Kenneth A. Kitchen)
12) Abraham (Rob Bradshaw)
13) From Babylon to Bethlehem (H.L. Ellison)
14) The Meaning and Significance of the Phrase "Kingdom of God" (Rob Bradshaw)
15) Theology and Culture in Canonical Historical Dialogue (D. Vincent Palmer)

There were 2,860 downloads of No.1 on the list decreasing down to 678 of No. 15. While I delighted to see so many of my own articles in the list I need to caution students that these articles are not from peer-reviewed journals - so be very careful if you are citing them for class!

Myriam Klinker-De Klerck on the Pastoral Epistles: authentic Pauline writings

2012-01-10T19:45:00.002Z

The following article is now available in PDF thanks to the kind permission of the author:

Myriam Klinker-De Klerck, "The Pastoral Epistles: authentic Pauline writings," European Journal of Theology 17.2 (2008): 101-108.

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P.H.R. van Houwelingen on the Authenticity of 2 Peter: Problems and Possible Solutions

2011-12-30T20:08:00.002Z

Professor Houwelingen recently contacted me and asked me to place the following article on-line on his behalf:

P.H.R. van Houwelingen, "The Authenticity of 2 Peter: Problems and Possible Solutions," European Journal of Theology 19.2 (2010): 119-129.

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Theology on the Web Year End Round-Up 2011

2011-12-27T20:38:00.002Z

2011 has been a busy year that has seen a number of milestone developments in the websites.

For many years I have worked on The Evangelical Quarterly in a piecemeal manner, adding a few articles at a time as originals became available to scan. This year I decided to make concerted effort to digitise at least the last 60 years and to contact the authors for permission to place them on-line. There are still a few gaps as a small number of authors declined permission and some did not respond but nevertheless a substantial proportion of the back-issues are now freely available. An unexpected bonus from the process of contacting authors was an introduction to a new journal - Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal. I contacted the editor and now have a number of its articles on-line.

The digitisation of the Indian Journal of Theology is now complete as far as I can take it, the remaining issues being unavailable for scanning at this point in time. If anyone can help to fill the gaps, please let me know.

One project which proved extremely popular was the digitisation of the works of the late H.L. Ellison, thanks to the kind permission of The Paternoster Press. Ellison wrote a number of studies on OT history and prophecy, such as From Babylon to Bethlehem. The People of God from the Exile to the Messiah which have all received a significant number of downloads.

I became a Christian at university and so owe a debt of gratitude to the work of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF). UCCF began in the UK as Inter-Varsity Fellowship and published a vast number of magazines for students from the 1920s (if not earlier) onwards. Its work, particularly among theology students through its specialist organisation Religious and Theological Students' Fellowship (RTSF), had a significant influence on the development and spread of evangelicalism in the UK. Many of the key Christian leaders of the 20th Century were impacted by it, including John R.W. Stott, Jim Packer, Michael Green, David C.K. Watson and Roger Foster. The early publications such as, Inter-Varsity Magazine and Christian Graduate later gave way to Themelios and the Tyndale Bulletin, which are still in production today. Although RTSF passed away a few years ago, its archive contains much significant material which is in the process of being sorted and catalogued. I have already begun to make some of it on-line, including some of the RTSF Monographs and TSF Bulletin, but hope to do more in this next year.

Perhaps the highlight of the year came about through the digitisation of the Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society / The Baptist Quarterly. The opportunity to do this arose from my ongoing work in partnership with the Keston Institute placing Religion in Communist Lands and Religion, State and Society on-line and resulted in an article in The Baptist Times on the 5th August. Since completing the journal I have been asked to take on the digitisation of a similar journal published by another denomination - more details on this early next year.

All in all the tenth year of the "Theology on the Web" project has been extremely productive and I look forward to seeing what 2012 will bring. A big thank you to all of you for your ongoing support, prayer and encouragement.

Thanks to those who installed DropBox

2011-11-21T09:33:00.001Z

I wanted to post a quick note tot hank those who have installed DropBox using my referral link. I mentioned a while ago just how helpful the software is proving, allowing me to synchronise my work across three computers. The additional free space that referrals provide will prove extremely useful as I take on several new projects over the next year.

TSF Bulletin Digitisation Project Begins

2011-11-18T02:00:00.000Z

The Theological Students' Fellowship Bulletin ran between 1951 and 1975 when it became Themelios. It was aimed at strengthening the faith of theological students in the UK As you can see from the Table of Contents many of the contributors are well-known for their contributions to Biblical Scholarship. In order that this work is not lost I am commencing the digitisation of the series and will be seeking permission from the copyright holders (which would be the authors, or their executors if deceased, in most cases) in due course with the aim of getting as much as possible on-line. I already have permission from a number of the authors, but if you know any of the contributors personally please encourage them to contact me.

Paul Ellingworth on the Theory and Practice in Bible Translation

2011-11-09T19:44:00.000Z

With thanks to Dr Ellingworth for his kind permission, the following article is now available on-line in PDF:

Paul Ellingworth, "Theory and Practice in Bible Translation," The Evangelical Quarterly 55.3 (July-Sept. 1983): 159-168.

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