Resources by Jacob J. Prahlow - Modern Reformation

“From Christ to Christianity,” by James R. Edwards

*** Baker Academic | 2021 | 320 pages (paperback) | $27.99 A strangely disjointed picture emerges for those studying the earliest forms of Christianity. On the one hand, we have the New Testament descriptions of the ministry of Jesus and his earliest followers, portraying “the Way” as largely composed of rural itinerant Jews. On the […]

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Tuesday, 01 March, 2022 by Jacob J. Prahlow
“The First One Hundred Years of Christianity” by Udo Schnelle and translated by James Thompson

The First One Hundred Years of Christianity: An Introduction to Its History, Literature, and DevelopmentBy Udo Schnelle and translated by James ThompsonBaker Academic, 2020688 pages (cloth), $60.00 Few eras of history are more captivating for Christians than the earliest years of the church. The apostles spreading the gospel across the Roman Empire. A church free […]

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Sunday, 01 November, 2020 by Jacob J. Prahlow

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The Meaning of “God”

Jan 22, 2021

Modernity, Pluralism, and Doubt Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Charles Taylor’s monumental A Secular Age was the simple observation that modern believers and unbelievers experience the world in much the same way. Whether raised by a homeschooling family who taught you to be a six-day creationist, or the child of an irreligious couple in San […]
Unhappily Married or Happily Divorced? The False Dilemma

Jan 25, 2021

Whatever we believe the Scriptures say about legitimate grounds for divorce, the assumption that marital dissolution should not be common among those who claim to follow Christ and Biblical teaching is reasonable. The pertinent passages recognized in the New Testament at most allow for divorce and remarriage only for egregious violations of the marital covenant […]
Biblical Nonconformity

Feb 19, 2021

Nonconformity is all the rage. Our culture applauds rebellion against social norms and encourages boldly standing apart. Sometimes this nonconformity is minor. It looks like fuchsia hair, living in a tiny house, eating only fruit and veggies. Other times nonconformity is something more extreme. The most immediate example is gender nonconformity. Biologically sexed males and […]
The Model for Christian Manhood: Introduction

Jun 16, 2021

When I used to lead women’s ministry at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, I helped organize our yearly Women’s Retreats. The men, however, never had Men’s Retreats. They had Men’s Advances. Retreats, as they saw it, were for sissies. Nevermind that the larger church adopted the concept of retreat from Jesus’s example in the Gospels. […]

“From Christ to Christianity,” by James R. Edwards

“The First One Hundred Years of Christianity” by Udo Schnelle and translated by James Thompson