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Posted on May 13, 2011 - by Andy Cheung

Themelios 36.1

Just had a chance to check out the latest edition of Themelios (Volume 36, Issue 1 May 2011) and as usual, it features some very helpful thoughts and articles. The main entries are below, together with the usual excellent range of book reviews.

D. A. Carson – Editorial: On Abusing Matthew 18
Carl Trueman – Minority Report: Know Your Limits: The Key Secret of Theological Controversy
Keith E. Johnson – Trinitarian Agency and the Eternal Subordination of the Son: An Augustian Perspective
Uche Anizor – A Spirited Humanity: The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Colin Gunton
Stephen Dempster – Review Article: Magnum Opus and Magna Carta: The Meaning of the Pentateuch
Robert H. Gundry – Pastoral Pensées: The Hopelessness of the Unevangelized

It’s available free online guide in HTML format or PDF.

Posted on April 8, 2011 - by Andy Cheung

D.A. Carson Interviewed on Biblical Exegesis

Video interview with Don Carson by R. C. Sproul on the task of exegesis

RC Sproul interviews DA Carson on biblical exegesis at Ligonier.

Incidentally, Carson’s Exegetical Fallacies is a fabulous study of some of the most common hermeneutical fallacies that exegetes face when interpreting scripture. The book identifies common grammatical, lexical, cultural, theological, and historical mistakes that preachers, pastors and students make frequently.

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Andy Cheung teaches New Testament at King’s Evangelical Divinity School, an accredited distance learning theological college in the UK.

Posted on February 17, 2011 - by Andy Cheung

Smartphone App Makes Book Citations a Snap

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

A new smartphone application takes most of the grunt work out of citing books in scholarly papers.

Quick Cite, which costs 99 cents and is available for both iPhones and Android-based phones, uses the camera on a smartphone to scan the bar code on the back of a book. It then e-mails you a bibliography-ready citation in one of four popular styles—APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/smartphone-app-makes-book-citations-a-snap/29768

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Andy Cheung is based at King’s Evangelical Divinity School, an accredited British college delivering distance learning courses worldwide.

Posted on February 8, 2011 - by Calvin L. Smith

Earn a B.Th. degree for less than £2000 a year!

British Higher Education is fast becoming prohibitively expensive, with the government recently passing legislation allowing universities to charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 per year. Neither does it end there, with accommodation, subsistence, travel and other expenses associated with attending a degree programme at a university, you could easily add another £3,000-5,000, again every year that your degree course runs. Multiply that by a three-year course and that’s an awful lot of cash to repay once you finish your degree. And while degrees in Law and Medicine can potentially earn graduates a tidy sum during the course of a lifetime, a degree in Theology is somewhat further down the potential earnings pecking order.

Yet taking a fully accredited degree in Theology at King’s costs nowhere near that amount, working out at well below £6,000 in total. (That’s not £6,000 per year, you understand, but rather for the entire degree!) Our Bachelor of Theology programme, validated by the University of Chester, is delivered completely online, allowing you to study from home or wherever, without the need to raise funds for accommodation and other costs associated with a traditional taught course. Access course materials wherever you have an internet connection, submit assignments electronically, and stay in touch with students and faculty by email, ‘phone, through the eCampus forum and Skype. Our B.Th. degree (a specialist qualification in Christian theology arguably equivalent in standard and scope to a U.S. M.Div.) is also highly flexible, allowing you to organize your studies and pace as you see fit. With a special focus on hermeneutics this degree is ideal for anyone seeking formal accreditation in Theology, whether for ministry, higher study at a later stage or purely out of interest in the subject. So why not visit our B.Th. page and see what we have to offer?

Posted on October 15, 2010 - by Andy Cheung

Logos Bible Software discount

Just a reminder that students are able to purchase the popular Logos Bible software at a 30% discount using the following link.

Posted on September 13, 2010 - by Calvin L. Smith

KEDS Question Time

I’ve previously posted here concerning a joint King’s-CPM conference, to be held at London School of Theology on 8-9 October, entitled Israel and the Church: A Common Heritage and Uncertain Future. Recently, myself and Mitch Glaser were discussing how we might encourage those attending to raise some thoughtful and probing questions so that all of us – speakers, attendees and several attending members of the Christian press – get the very most out of this aspect of the conference. I, for one, genuinely believe this conference, which seeks to take a somewhat fresh approach to the whole Israel-Church-Middle East issue, will raise all manner of questions, and therefore we want to maximise the time and importance given to the Question/Answer aspect of the event.

As such, we’re adjusting the timetable slightly so that an extra session will be added at the very end of the second day (Saturday 9th October), so that we have a panel of all the speakers to answer questions fielded by those attending the conference. The aim is to make this aspect of the conference very similar to the BBC’s Question Time in order to encourage wider debate and offer something not always found at similar academic conferences. I will chair the event (though I admit, after attending several Question Time events and meeting David Dimbleby, I can’t promise to be quite as slim, elegant and fluid as he), while speakers will take turns responding to questions fielded by those attending the conference (we’ll even have introductory music to make it feel like the real thing, composed by our very own Chris Lazenby, B.Th. worship modules tutor!).

Cards will be issued at Registration for people to write their questions down, and we will try to get through as many questions as possible (panel members will not see questions beforehand). Questions which are brief, to the point and interesting (regardless of the ideological/theological stance they take) will likely go to the top of the pile, and each panel member will be asked to respond in turn. Where relevant, we will come back to panel members and the person asking the question to widen the debate. This will be a great way to end the paper aspect of the conference.

It’s not too late to book for the event. Full details can be found here, and we really hope you can join us. (For King’s students, so far I can confirm Andy Cheung, Chris Lazenby and myself will be there throughout the entire event and we’d love to catch up with you.)

Posted on August 21, 2010 - by Andy Cheung

New Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style—the basic style guide for most publishers—is now available in the 16th edition. If you’re an author, this is an important work to have on hand

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Some helpful links:
* Online paid electronic subscription information
* Free 30-day online trial
* Free, quick, online style guide intro
* What’s new in the 16th edition?
* Significant rule changes in the 16th edition

HT: Justin Taylor

Andy
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For accredited, online and distance education courses in Theology and Biblical Studies visit the King’s Evangelical Divinity School website.

Posted on August 8, 2010 - by Andy Cheung

Holman QuickSource Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls by Craig Evans

This helpful book was brought to my attention by Jim Hamilton over at his blog. It’s written by Craig A. Evans, Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, Canada. Don’t let the ‘QuickSource’ name mislead you: this is nearly 400 pages although happily it’s written in an easy to read manner (it’s not a dense academic treatise). There’s a good review of it over at the Amazon.com website and if you want a preview, check it out on Google books.

Andy
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For accredited, online and distance learning courses in Theology and Biblical Studies visit the King’s Evangelical Divinity School website.