Why Biblical Theology Matters

Recorded before a live audience at Cahaba Park Church during Discovering Christ in All of Scripture, a Reformed Forum seminar hosted in conjunction with Birmingham Theological Seminary, Camden Bucey moderates a panel with Dan Ragusa, Derrick Brite, and Lane Tipton on the importance of biblical theology for the life of the church.

The panel defines biblical theology in the tradition of Geerhardus Vos, explains its organic and progressive character, and shows how the whole history of special revelation reaches its center and goal in Jesus Christ.

The conversation turns to preaching, discipleship, the unity of the covenant of grace, Christ-centered interpretation, practical resources for reading the Old Testament, and the need for churches to recover the accomplishment of redemption as the great context for every biblical passage. In the audience Q&A, the panel also addresses ministry in small and struggling churches, church revitalization, and the pilgrim ethic needed for faithful pastoral service.

Heavenly Hope

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​Exploring 1 Peter: Ethics at the End of All Things, a free Reformed Academy course taught by Dr. Kevin Chiarot, is an exposition of the apostle Peter’s first letter to the suffering Christians scattered throughout Asia Minor.

Peter sees the church as earthly sojourners with a heavenly inheritance and hope. Out of such a framework, he prescribes an “exilic ethic” of sober and comprehensive engagement with the world. Dr. Chiarot explores that framework and ethic and how believers can apply it to their everyday lives.

“This course is a clear, no-nonsense exposition of 1 Peter that the church needs today as much as she did in the time of the apostles.”—Owen Anderson