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This list of online resources for Wesleyan and Methodist studies is intended to be a beginning point for exploration, not an exhaustive compilation. The inclusion of a website here does not imply an endorsement of all the information contai…
May/24/2013
It is the beginning of a new academic year and students are sifting in. Many of them are entirely new to seminary life and they are beginning to register for classes and attend orientation. Among the challenges that Protestant seminarians w…
Apr/24/2013
Students of Hebrews are well served by H. Attridge’s masterful exegetical commentary in the Hermeneia series (Fortress, 1989). This work mines background materials, especially those from the Greco-Roman world, as it carefully and clearly wo…
Apr/24/2013
Is another gospel spreading among our youth? That is the conclusion one must reach in light of the research that C. Smith and his partners reported in Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (cowritten with M…
Apr/24/2013
For a couple of decades, Christian scholars have invested a lot of energy in the examination of worldviews — without doubt, a worthy endeavor that had not received enough attention from Christian thinkers. Our ways of understanding the natu…
Apr/01/2013
Although it may sound trite to say that there has never been a better time to study history, the ever-increasing flood of digital sources on the Internet has truly been a game-changer for historians in the last decade. Sources that once req…
Apr/01/2013
Who could fail to notice the rise of the New Atheism? The movement burst onto the scene in 2006 and 2007, with high profile blockbusters such as R. Dawkins' The God Delusion and C. Hitchens' God Is Not Great. Although their profile is now f…
Apr/01/2013
For the study of Paul’s most famous letter, Romans, there are scores of commentaries. While one could certainly glean much from classic commentaries by C.K. Barrett in Black’s New Testament Commentary (BNTC; Hendrickson, 1991) and Charles C…
Apr/01/2013
Only the most confirmed optimist could say that these are cheerful times for North American seminaries. In the five years spanning 2007 to 2011, the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) reported a decline in its schools’ full-time-equiv…
Mar/01/2013
The editors of Catalyst asked me to reflect in these pages on The United Methodist Church’s 2012 General Conference, held in Tampa, FL, from April 24 to May 4. This was my second General Conference, which means, I suppose, I am beginning to…
Nov/01/2012
One of the pivotal responsibilities of every Christian generation is to engage the Scriptures exegetically and theologically. A number of fine commentaries are available to assist this task. During the 2012-13 academic year, Catalyst will p…
Nov/01/2012
The web started off like the Wild West – all the homeless hopefuls and get-rich-quick entrepreneurs made their way there in a huge wagon race. The web was free – free of cost and free of restraint. Among the first colonists were Christians,…
Nov/01/2012
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