4/9/2008 6:01:27 AM According to Barr, theology and critical biblical study are mutually informing aspects of a theological whole. Theology provides the presuppositions necessary for turning to the Bible for theological purposes, but it cannot
4/6/2008 10:44:11 AM My experience is that evangelicalism has in their midst at least four kinds of scholars. First, there are those who really don’t know the critical evidence (because they found a grad program
There is also the article on the book on sex in the Bible that talks about how the Bible is not a guide book as we expect it to be. “The most interesting thing about
3/23/2008 10:54:54 AM At this point, someone may say: surely, if the Gospels are inspired scripture … they should be accurate in all ways? In a sense, yes. But beware. That argument is regularly used
7/4/09 Enns blog, about his debate with Waltke: I have a folder (electronic and paper) of people who used to be Christians but are now atheists, or were evangelical and now don’t know what they
5/16/09 I was reading this article by N.T. Wright today, ‘Resurrecting Old Arguments’, some discussion of his book, ‘The Resurrection of the Son of God.’ I read something that reminded me of a central conflict
quotes from Herzog by Saul Bellow Moses was strongly tempted to lie to her, to say, ‘Yes, Ramona, it was you.’ Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game, and might even be a disagreeable
1/3/09 I was reading this sermon by Karl Barth in which he is resisting in 1933 the demand by the Nazis for the churches of Germany to include Aryan paragraph”, which the state used to
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross: Contemporary Images of the Atonement by Mark D. Baker, Ed. The thesis is that there are many ways of describing what happened on the cross, and claiming that ‘penal
Quotes on recorder made in August 2008, mostly from Bernard Ramm, ”After Fundamentalism” and a book by N.T. Wright but I don”t know which. One was ”New Testament and the People of God” so maybe