‘Conceived by the Holy Spirit’ is the best sort of theological book. It’s academically robust, helping pastors and scholars understand an important historical doctrine. But it’s also richly devotional, pointing readers to Christ.
The angel’s ‘sitting on the right’ of the bench represents Jesus’s ‘sitting at the right’ hand of the Father.
Everywhere Jesus steps in Mark’s Gospel is a holy sanctuary because where Jesus goes, so goes God’s presence.
The sad pattern holds as the gospel promise is clarified then followed by the specter of abuse.
How should we understand both the extent and the limits of dispensationalism’s influence on American evangelicalism?
