2/2/2010 10:09:46 AM I was struck by a comment made toward the end of the God Journey podcast in which the guest was Steve McVey. In the discussion it was remarked that the traditional approach
I was not able to enter empathetically into the spontaneity and boundary-shattering milieu of the early church, having been raised in a rationalistic, scholastic religion. I was circumscribed by deadly fears of heresy and dogmatically
I am reading Bart Ehrman book, How Jesus Became God, pretty similar material to various Marcus Borg books I have read, like ‘Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.’ They both
Henderson the Rain King is a seriocomic novel by Saul Bellow, first published in 1959. The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson’s search for meaning. A
1/8/2010 12:30:31 PM Pretty good article on Jesus studies from Atlantic, published 1986. “The most important corrective of historical scholarship has been to begin to alter the view of many Christians that basically Jesus is
8/12/2009 8:22:18 AM(Bovel died in 2012) In Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (Brazos, 2009), former ETS president Francis Beckwith writes: “My Evangelical Protestant contemporaries seemed to treat the Bible as if it
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway, Ernest) – Your Highlight on page 136 | Location 2360-2362 | Added on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 8:40:04 PM The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his
Reinventing Liberal Christianity (Hobson, Theo) – Your Highlight on page 272 | Location 4844-4848 | Added on Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:22:38 PM Instead, the religious Right was allowed to dominate the discussion — in
It’s the Pharaohs of this world who would be happy to keep religion and politics separate. I mean, think about it. If Moses had simply said to Pharaoh, ”You know, all we want is to
If we move beyond literary and form-critical distinctions, we may say that theologically Job moves to a “second naivete,” in which he denies nothing, but in the acknowledgement of his trouble, he continues in a