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This is the sixth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 114–143 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Overview
• 08:28 Resurrection as the Redemption of Christ
• 12:49 The Mutual Implication of Death and Resurrection
• 16:18 The Positive Import of Resurrection
• 21:24 Adoption
• 33:36 Justification
• 42:18 Sanctification
• 49:36 Glorification
• 56:18 The Eschatology of the Ordo Salutis
• 58:22 Distinct Benefits as Facets of One Event
• 64:31 The Whole Christ and Pastoral Significance
• 68:59 Course Conclusion

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Jim Cassidy joins Camden Bucey to discuss the Gospel of Mark and a newly recorded Reformed Academy course, The Gospel of Mark: A Study in the Kingdom. They consider how Mark identifies Jesus as the divine King and teaches the nature of his kingdom through a fast-moving account of Christ’s ministry.

The conversation explores faith and union with Christ, Mark’s high Christology, exorcisms as signs of Christ’s conquest over Satan, Jesus’s cleansing of the unclean, the covenantal transition signaled in Mark 7, and the two-stage healing of the blind man as a mirror of the disciples’ partial understanding. They also discuss why the kingdom advances through the cross and resurrection rather than worldly power—and how that hope steadies an anxious church.

Resources

• Reformed Academy
• Christ the Center 1000 Summit
• Reformed Forum newsletter

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:57 Reformed Academy courses with Jim Cassidy

04:03 Christ the Center episode 1000 summit

10:00 The Gospel of Mark as a study in the kingdom

15:14 Mark’s rapid narrative and distinctive emphasis

18:31 Faith, healing, and union with Christ

21:13 Mark’s high Christology

26:30 Exorcism and the conquest of Satan’s kingdom

32:58 Jesus, purity, and the covenantal transition

37:40 Scripture and tradition in Mark 7

42:35 The two-stage healing of the blind man

47:45 Victory through the cross and suffering

50:52 Rendering to Caesar and to God

55:45 Resurrection hope for an anxious church

59:57 Peter’s confession and the structure of Mark

62:14 Conclusion

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This is the fifth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 74–114 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Overview
• 06:44 First Corinthians 15:42–49: Natural and Spiritual Bodies
• 09:01 The Corinthian Objection and Greek Dualism
• 15:54 Continuity and Transformation of the Body
• 19:56 Adam’s Original Body and Eschatological Life
• 28:52 The Two Adams and Two Modes of Existence
• 34:06 The Last Adam as Life-Giving Spirit
• 39:53 The Functional Unity of Christ and the Spirit
• 44:32 Romans 1: Son of God in Power
• 55:01 Resurrection as Royal Enthronement
• 58:19 The Gospel’s Two Historical Foci
• 65:05 Conclusion and Preview

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Bradley G. Green joins Camden Bucey to discuss What Is Critical Theory?: A Concise Christian Analysis. They trace the Frankfurt School’s Marxist roots and explain why thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse turned from a narrowly economic account of oppression toward culture, institutions, authority, family, and religion.

The conversation evaluates critical theory as a counterfeit religious vision with its own accounts of creation, sin, redemption, and eschatology. Drawing on Cornelius Van Til, Green shows how unbelieving thought oscillates between rationalism and irrationalism; drawing on Henry Van Til, he explains why culture is “religion externalized.”

Resources

• What Is Critical Theory?: A Concise Christian Analysis
• Bradley G. Green at Southern Seminary
• Christ Overall

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

04:30 Introducing What Is Critical Theory?

08:14 Marxism after the failed German revolution

10:43 The major Frankfurt School thinkers

12:35 Culture, oppression, and the long march through the institutions

15:54 Critical theory as a counterfeit religion

19:06 What the critical theorists see—and miss

21:56 Creation, givenness, and the autonomous individual

24:05 Sin relocated from the heart to the system

25:18 Marcuse’s vision of sexual liberation

29:42 Utopian hope and Adorno’s “Grand Hotel Abyss”

33:11 Walter Benjamin and a “messianic rupture”

36:45 Repressive tolerance and the authoritarian personality

42:35 Van Til on rationalism and irrationalism

46:31 Culture as religion externalized

49:22 Pastoral and educational applications

53:55 Using the book for personal and group study

56:20 Conclusion

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This is the fourth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 62–74 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Overview
• 04:52 The Father’s Activity and the Son’s Passivity
• 13:33 Paul and John on Christ’s Resurrection Agency
• 20:47 The Agency of the Holy Spirit
• 31:22 Spiritual and Physical Resurrection
• 39:40 Spirit, Power, Glory, and Life
• 47:13 The Personhood of the Holy Spirit
• 55:14 Summary and Theological Significance

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in covenant theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/resurrection-redemption-readers-guide

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Kevin DeYoung joins Camden Bucey to discuss Church History for Everyone, Volume 1: The Story of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Dawn of the Reformation. They consider why Christianity is inseparable from history and how the story of the church testifies to Christ’s promise to build and preserve his people by his Word and Spirit.

The conversation explores how Christians can remember faithful men and women without lapsing into hagiography—or reducing the past to a catalogue of failures. Camden and Kevin also discuss monasticism, the preservation of learning and liturgy, Protestant retrieval of medieval theologians such as Bernard of Clairvaux, and the figures who will appear in the forthcoming second volume.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:50 Christ the Center 1000 summit update

12:55 Introducing Church History for Everyone

15:51 Conversation with Kevin DeYoung

17:30 From Sunday school lectures to a two-volume history

20:58 Why Christianity is inseparable from history

23:48 Church history as family history

26:38 Beyond hagiography and “warts only” history

30:57 Choosing characters and telling the church’s story

35:30 What Protestants can learn from monasticism

39:53 Recovering the medieval church

43:59 Previewing volume 2

46:53 Conclusion

Resources

Church History for Everyone, Volume 1

Clearly Reformed

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This is the third lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 41–62 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Key Pauline Texts
• 04:08 The Believer’s Past Resurrection
• 11:46 Ephesians 2: Raised with Christ
• 18:50 Federal and Experiential Dimensions of Union
• 24:52 The Believer’s Transition from Death to Life
• 29:52 Distinct yet Connected Resurrection Events
• 33:33 Colossians 2–3: Made Alive and Raised with Christ
• 40:18 Romans 6 and Experiential Union
• 44:52 The Likeness of Christ’s Death and Resurrection
• 51:25 Galatians 2: Crucified with Christ
• 55:44 Present Inward and Future Bodily Resurrection
• 57:54 The Union Involved: A Dual Perspective
• 1:01:26 Union with the Heavenly Christ through the Spirit
• 1:03:32 Summary: Accomplishment, Application, and Already–Not Yet
• 1:05:33 The Redemption of Body and Soul
• 1:07:54 Conclusion and Preview

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Jared Poulton joins Camden Bucey to discuss Van Til’s Counseling Movement: A Critical Analysis of Jay Adams and Biblical Counseling. They trace how Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics supplied key theological instincts for Jay Adams and the modern biblical counseling movement, including the God-relatedness of every human problem, dependence upon divine revelation, and confidence in Scripture’s sufficiency for pastoral ministry.

The conversation also examines tensions within contemporary biblical counseling. Camden and Jared consider the antithesis, common grace, the relation of the book of nature to the book of Scripture, and the danger of either rejecting all extra-biblical knowledge or baptizing secular methods without sufficient theological scrutiny. Throughout, they argue that faithful counseling should serve the church’s disciple-making mission and bring every claim about human life under the authoritative framework of God’s Word.

• Van Til’s Counseling Movement
• Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:12 Jared Poulton’s path into biblical counseling
• 09:12 What is biblical counseling?
• 17:44 The sufficiency of Scripture and pastoral counsel
• 23:09 CCEF, David Powlison, and Van Til
• 27:29 A Van Tilian foundation and an identity crisis
• 32:48 Competing trajectories in biblical counseling
• 41:02 Robert K. Rudolph and Jay Adams
• 44:02 Three streams that shaped Adams
• 50:57 God is man’s environment
• 55:58 Presuppositions and borrowed terminology
• 61:37 The antithesis and secular psychology
• 67:06 Scripture’s framework for counseling
• 72:59 Common grace and the two-book approach
• 75:56 Counseling in service of the church’s mission
• 77:42 Conclusion

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On today’s episode of Theology Simply Profound, Rob and Bob continue to walk through the Book of Daniel. We discuss the Lord's response to his corporate confession of sin in chapter 9:1-19 wherein Gabriel flies in to provide "insight and understanding" in the form of the prophecy of the seventy weeks.

This is the second lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 31–41 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Review
• 08:50 From Paul’s Letters to Paul’s Theology
• 14:06 Christ’s Resurrection and the Resurrection of Believers
• 17:31 First Corinthians 15: Christ the Firstfruits
• 31:58 Head-Body Solidarity and Federal Representation
• 36:06 Colossians 1:18: Firstborn from the Dead
• 44:25 Resurrection and the Dawn of New Creation
• 48:55 Second Corinthians 4:14 and Shared Resurrection
• 53:49 Preview: The Believer’s Past Resurrection

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in covenant theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/resurrection-redemption-readers-guide

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