Resurrection – The Two Cities

A Brief Conversation Among Disembodied Spirits Residing in the Intermediate State

Dec 16, 2024

Photo credits: “Wait Here: Entrance to the waiting room at the municipal airport, in Washington, D.C. 1941” by polkbritton is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. These four spirits shed their earthly names when they shed their earthly bodies. They are awaiting their new names that Christ will give them “at the end of the age.” They are herein identified by letters. A: He is a layman who through most of his adult life diligently read and studied...

A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s <i>Surprised by Hope</i> from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final Judgment

A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final Judgment

Sep 13, 2024

Professor Wright has given us all a precious gift by “reminding” us and, more importantly, by explaining to us in persuasive detail that Jesus on Easter did not pass into some vague spiritual netherworld, but rather rose bodily from the dead. The resurrection, Dr. Wright correctly proclaims, represents the defeat of death and the inauguration of a new and transformed cosmos, both of heaven and earth, in which those who believe in him, each of...

Parenting Children with Down Syndrome with Vinh Nguyen (Podcast)

Mar 1, 2023

Alt txt: Image of our guest, Vinh Nguyen, and one of our hosts: Dr. John Anthony Dunne. In this episode we are joined by Vinh Nguyen to talk about parenting children with Down syndrome. Vinh is a PhD student at McMaster Divinity College, and has served as a pastor in different capacities for over ten years. He is married with three children, one of whom is his daughter, Alli, who has Down syndrome. At the...

Introducing Disability & Theology with Prof. John Swinton (Podcast)

Jan 4, 2023

Alt txt: image of our guest, Prof. John Swinton, with some of our co-hosts, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Dr. Grace Emmett, Stephanie Kate Judd, Dr. Madison Pierce, and Rev. Dr. Chris Porter, along with the title of the episode: “Introducing Disability & Theology with Prof. John Swinton.” This episode is the first episode in our series on disability and theology, in which we’re joined by Prof. John Swinton, who is Chair of Divinity and Religious...

Resurrection & Rationality with Dr. James T. Turner (Podcast)

Aug 25, 2021

Carrying on our broader conversation on Apologetics, we are joined by an analytic theologian, Dr. James T. Turner, who is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Anderson University and the author of On the Resurrection of the Dead: A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought (published by Routledge). In this conversation we touch on the nature of apologetics as an enterprise designed to demonstrate that Christianity is not fundamentally irrational. As Dr. Turner contends, this...

Does Apologetics Help Us Read the New Testament? With Ian Mills (Podcast)

Aug 4, 2021

In this installment of our apologetics series we ask the corresponding question to last week’s episode, Does Apologetics Help Us Read the New Testament? For this conversation we are joined by Ian Mills, who is a PhD Candidate in New Testament at Duke University and co-host with Laura Robinson of the New Testament Review podcast. Ian contends that the modern apologetics enterprise both hinders our ability to read the New Testament and makes us worse...

Hope in Times of Fear: A Review

May 18, 2021

Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter by Rev. Dr. Timothy Keller (New York: Viking, 2021). Does a study in the resurrection ever need an introduction? Not really, because the resurrection is meant to be so central to the Christian faith that it’s always worth exploring. Therefore, I want to encourage you to check out the new book Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter...

N.T. Wright Interview About His New Book, God and the Pandemic (Podcast)

May 20, 2020

N.T. Wright joins The Two Cities podcast for a special interview episode about his upcoming new book, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath (London: SPCK / Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020). His new book is an expansion and development of a short article that he wrote for TIME magazine on March 29th, entitled, “Christianity Offers No Answers About The Coronavirus: It’s Not Supposed To.” In this episode, John Anthony...

Review of Andrew K. Boakye, Death and Life: Resurrection, Restoration, and Rectification in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

Jan 29, 2018

Death and Life is the published PhD Thesis of Andrew K. Boakye (PhD, University of Manchester), who is currently Lecturer in Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester. I was first introduced to Dr. Boakye’s research at the 2012 Galatians & Theology Conference held at my alma mater (University of St Andrews), where he gave a paper just before I gave mine, entitled, “If the Law Could Make Alive: Justification as Resurrection in Galatians.” Ever since...

Dickens, Death, and the Christian Christmas

Dec 22, 2017

This week, a woman at my church faces the harrowing decision between two Christmases. On the one hand, she could join a few friends and the son from which she has been estranged, risking the possibility of running into the guy who things “didn’t work out with.” It would be too uncomfortable for her to ask the hostess whether this man has RSVP-ed one way or the other. On the other hand, she could join the just-this-month widowed...