Lecture: “Resurrection and the Renewal of Creation” from N.T. Wright

A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2018-2019." Few Christians realize what “resurrection” meant in the first-century world where early Christianity was born. It meant nothing short of “new creation” — the reaffirmation, by the creator God, of the goodness of the original creation, starting with the

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Lecture: “Was Jonathan Edwards a Christian Hedonist?” from John Piper

A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2017-2018." John Piper (Pastor, Author and Chancellor, Bethlehem College & Seminary, Minneapolis, MN) Dr. Piper explores the teaching of the 18th century American revivalist preacher and theologian, Jonathan Edwards, in relationship to the philosophy of Christian life which holds that “God

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Lecture: “God is a Warrior: Coming to Terms with Divine Violence in the Old Testament” from Tremper Longman

A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2017-2018." Tremper Longman III (Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA) Biographical Information Especially since 9/11 Christians in the West have been sensitive to descriptions of God acting violently toward his human creatures. Many contemporary Christians find the stories

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