I had heard this requested https://www.logos.com/product/33987/evangelical-theology but I have never heard of this fellow. How would this compare to Grudem?
EDIT: I just saw the video on the page.... looks good.
I had heard this requested https://www.logos.com/product/33987/evangelical-theology but I have never heard of this fellow.
Michael Bird is Australian, evangelical, Calvinist in a very balanced sense. His emphasis is on the gospel, i.e. the evangel should be the basis for our theology.
I read his blog each day at:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/
Recommended author.
Some background information on Michael from Ridley College in Melbourne Australia where he currently teaches:
http://www.ridley.edu.au/about-ridley/faculty/mike-bird/
And some more info on his background:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/michael-birds-cv/
I had heard this requested https://www.logos.com/product/33987/evangelical-theology but I have never heard of this fellow. How would this compare to Grudem? EDIT: I just saw the video on the page.... looks good.
While I hide any Grudem books that accidentally slip into my library, I buy Bird for my Kindle. He's logical, straight-forward, easy going, and periodically funny. And evangelical to the core.
Denise, can you give a quick review of what you don't like about Grudem's books?
Bruce ... no quick review of Grudem without stepping into a theological minefield. But I've earlier expressed my preference for taking the NT (and OT) text at face value, as if indeed living in the first century and earlier. That means not having the KJV/ESV for theological construction, and having to work 'forward' from the LXX, not backwards from a 1950s Americana. But I have enjoyed (and enjoy) Bird, since at least he entertains the alternatives and describes his thinking process in an open way.
Thanks Denise. I really didn't want to set a minfield but only wanted to know in a general way and I think that you have expressed that. I'm not as familiar with Bird so I'll have to take a closer look.
