Renowned New Testament scholar comes home to Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas Reformed Theological Seminary is delighted to announce that renowned scholar of New Testament and Biblical Interpretation, Dr. Greg Beale, is joining the faculty of RTS. Dr. Beale, a native Texan and graduate of Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas Theological Seminary, and Cambridge University, has been elected full-time Professor of New Testament at RTS Dallas, adding to a growing campus and an expanding RTS presence in Texas. Professor Beale has had a long and distinguished academic career,…Greg Beale joins the RTS faculty
Renowned New Testament scholar comes home to Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas Reformed Theological Seminary is delighted to announce that renowned scholar of New Testament and Biblical Interpretation, Dr. Greg Beale, is joining the faculty of RTS. Dr. Beale, a native Texan and graduate of Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas Theological Seminary, and Cambridge University, has been elected full-time Professor of New Testament at RTS Dallas, adding to a growing campus and an expanding RTS presence in Texas. Professor Beale has had a long and distinguished academic career,…
My friend Jason Allen, President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has just published a new book, Succeeding at Seminary: 12 Keys to Getting the Most out of Your Theological Education (Moody Publishers). Those of you thinking about going to seminary, those of you who have just started seminary, and those of you who counsel those who are contemplating going to seminary or who are already seminarians, will all find this book useful. I certainly did. I wrote the foreword, and here’s what I said: If you have picked up this book to…
1. True and saving knowledge of God has in view not only comprehension but decision and action. (Foreword, 5-6 [pages are from the Hodder & Stoughton, 1975 edition). 2. Ignorance of God lies at the root of much of the church’s weakness today. (Foreword, 6). 3. Two trends have contributed to the church’s current ignorance of God: (1) Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: we have great thoughts of man and small thoughts of God. (2) Christian minds have been confused by modern skepticism. (Foreword, 6-7). 4. The…
We could summarize the whole book, as teaching [1] who God is and [2] how we can relate to him. The outline of the whole book, could be summarized: I. The hows and whys of knowing God; II. The attributes of God; and III. Some primary benefits of being God’s child. Also, note that the book could easily be broken into two semesters of study: [1] The attributes of God, chapters 7-17; and [2] The privileges and problems of living as a Christian, 1-6, 18-22. A great name for a church or group study of Knowing God is “Knowing God…
Ye may know this (your adoption by God) by the following marks. Mark 1. The image ye bear. Children are like their father, and all God’s children father themselves. I allude to Judges 8:18. They each one resemble the children of a king. Look to thy…
There is nothing more important in Christian public worship than the reading of the Scriptures, God’s holy, inspired, inerrant, authoritative Word. In 1 Timothy 4:13, Paul says to Timothy: “Until I come, give attention to the public reading of…
The Westminster Directory of Publick Worship (1645) Of Publick Reading of the Holy Scriptures. READING of the word in the congregation, being part of the publick worship of God, (wherein we acknowledge our dependence upon him, and subjection to him,)…
Dear RTS family, Your Provost, Chief Officers, Senior Administrators, Presidents, Executive Directors, Deans, and I have been continuously working on our plans for the fall semester and the 2020-2021 academic year amidst the ever-changing landscape…
My introduction to the Christian Focus Publications edition of Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s “A Basket of Fragments.” “A Basket of Fragments” is not the most arresting book title that you may have ever encountered, but do not…
Q. 3. What is the Word of God? A. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God,the only rule of faith and obedience. Lord, we do not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4;…