Back in the 1970s Harold Lindsell published ”Battle for the Bible.” The article by Donald Dayton, published around that time, ”The Battle for the Bible: Renewing the Inerrancy Debate,” talks about the implications of his
Borg – Conventional wisdom is not to be identified with any particular tradition.; it is pervasive in all traditions. To emphasize the point once again: the conflict between conventional wisdom and alternative wisdom is not
”Emotion has dictated the course and detail of my book, and in emotional writing one arrives at the unpredictable which can be of more value, since its sources are deeper, than the products of the
Right-brained apologeticsWriter Francis SpuffordDec 04, 2014 by David HeimChristian Century Francis Spufford has won several literary awards in Great Britain for his nonfiction works, which include I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English
We the churches have been the real reductionists. We have reduced the Kingdom of God to private piety. Key puzzles1. Jesus” world2. What he meant when he spoke of God3. He acted as if
“Possibilities for bringing justice and mercy, genuine freedom and prosperity, to the whole world. Empires always carry that possibility. But, alas, empires always also, for the same reason, face the temptation to use their power
Dick Keyes, The Lordship of Christ. It made me think of a comment about Paul’s preaching concept – ‘you preach the Bible without all the crap.’ This is the spiritual/secular dualism that Keyes rejects. He
I was talking to someone about various issues that come up in New Testament studies, like say differences in the birth narratives of Jesus. Churches sometimes gloss over or hide these issues. So when someone
Yes, in fact I own a copy of Ramm’s book The Christian View of Science and Scripture. That book did so much to boost my faith. The main thing that kept me from the gospel
3/1/07 Looking through The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, as I was thinking about Ronald Numbers’ book, I came across the following summary: ‘They share in common the picture of an evangelical world almost completely