Constructing Jesus, by Dale C. Allison Jr.Apr 18, 2011 reviewed by Mark Allan Powell Two years ago, after Dale Allison published a short book on historical Jesus studies that seemed to question the legitimacy of
The fact that the two histories are found within the same sacred Scriptures has a further meaning than that, however. Any community or individual with a commitment to those Scriptures does not have the freedom
6/26/2008 9:45:37 AM Her soteriology, if I can even call it that, is almost wholly pelagian and bourgeois. We recover shalom by turning to God and others in love. As long as we do not
Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought by David N. Livingstone Tracing the Christian response to evolution from the mid-19th century to the present, Livingstone finds accommodation to have been more
6/19/2008 8:11:44 AM The Remaking of Evangelical Theology – the Princeton theology, claiming to be continuous with Calvin and Luther, was innovative in its introduction of inerrancy. During the same period dispensationalism came in, opposed
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