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This page started through the sponsorship of the Pildera 2 Southern Baptist Church Young Professionals Ministry in 2020. Today, this site continues to offer various theological articles, academic blogs, book reviews, sermons, bible study lessons, and more.

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[Chapter Review] Baptist Landmarkism

Garrett, James Leo Jr. “Baptist Landmarkism.” In Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study. 2009., Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2019. pp. 213-248. Baptist Landmarkism is significant enough among Baptists in America, especially in the South, that even today’s Baptists around the world are affected. For example, in the Philippines, most Baptist Fundamentalists, Missionary Baptists, and Bible…

by JP Arceno March 21, 2023

Book Reviews

[Chapter Review] Old Princeton Theology and Orthodox Calvinism

Livingston, James C. “Movements of Recover and Conservation: The Princeton Theology.” In Modern Christian Thought: The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century, 1:299-326. 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006. James Livingston’s goal in this chapter is to present a counterforce against the Second Great Awakening in the United States of America. Though it is in…

by JP Arceno January 26, 2023

Book Reviews

[Chapter Review] George W. F. Hegel and Speculative Idealism

Livingston, James C. “Christianity and Speculative Idealism.” In Modern Christian Thought: The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century, 1:116-141. 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006. James C. Livingston is a specialist in Enlightenment Christianity, specifically the 19th century. Livingston served at the College of William & Mary from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. At…

by JP Arceno January 26, 2023

AUTHOR’S PICKS:

Top 10 Books I’ve Read in 2021

The Year 2021 was a transitional year for me; from seminary academic setting to pastoral ministry. After finishing ThM in Dec 2020, I was called by God to become an Interim Pastor of UCBC in New Jersey. Thus, my reading time was limited compared to 2020. In 2020, I was able to read 90 books;…

Virtual Preaching: A Digital Theology

When the world experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, the church transitioned immediately to digital networks, virtual spaces, and hybrid or phygital (Physical + Digital) experience. Most of the churches accepted and practiced Facebook Live, YouTube streaming, and Zoom meetings as an alternative for meeting regularly especially for preaching purposes. This article explores the history of virtual…

Biography of Richard Sibbes (1577-1635)

Richard Sibbes was born in Tostock, Suffolk, four miles from Bury St. Edmunds, in 1577.[1] He is the eldest son of Paul Sibbes and Joane. His father was a wheelwright who hoped Sibbes would be in the same field of occupation. Instead of following the footsteps of his father, young Sibbes, out of love for…

A Biography of Charles Simeon (1759–1836)

Charles Simeon, the youngest son of Richard and Elizabeth Hutton, was born on September 24, 1759, in Reading, Berkshire.[1] Simeon’s father was a practicing attorney, while his mother, however, died soon after his birth. Simeon studied with his brothers, John and Edward, at Eton, who later became prominent in their fields respectively in the legal…

Recent Published Writings of JP Arceno

“Utopian Virtual Reality in Ready Player One: Responding with Real Hope and the Christian Teleos,” in Film, Philosophy and Religion ed. William Anderson (Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, August 2021), 69-88; [$91]. Abstract: This chapter provides a synopsis of virtual reality and attempts to understand the virtual world in Ready Player One (RPO) called OASIS (Ontologically…

“It is good to read the lives of holy men; and the more holy they have been the better… Read the lives of good men—the lives of such men as God has distinguished for gifts, and graces, and usefulness.”

— Andrew Fuller (1754-1815)

A Biographical Sketch of John Calvin (1509-1564)

John Calvin was born in Noyon, France on July 10, 1509. His parents were Gerard Cauvin and Jeanne. Gerard remarried after Calvin’s mother died. Still, young Calvin experienced and felt genuine motherly love from his stepmother. When Calvin was twelve years old, he got a benefice from the bishop of Noyon where his father works…

A Biography of Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

Richard Baxter was born on November 12, 1615, in Rowton, Shropshire, England.[1] His parents were Richard and Beatrice. Baxter’s life as a kid was not that decent. His basic education was a disappointment; he had four different schoolmasters who were oblivious, two of whom were immoral.[2] Still, Baxter’s spirituality was not left out. Richard, his…

A Biographical Sketch of Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

Thomas Manton was born in 1620 at Lydeard St. Lawrence, Somerset.[1] Manton spent most of his life in Oxford for his studies and London for ministry. Many remembered Manton as “the king of preachers” during his lifetime. Even the prince of preachers Charles Spurgeon (d. 1892) commended Manton’s sermons on Psalm 199; he said, “There…

Church Producing Churches

During the Apostolic days, New Testament churches result either in producing another church or supporting missionaries to plant another church. This principle was evident in apostle Paul’s missionary journeys. Paul instructed Titus to remind the Cretan churches to support their Gospel-proclaimers (missionaries) and make sure that they lack nothing (3:12-15). Biblically, a church planter ought…

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