Sun 8/17/08 Third, Barth’s anchoring of ethics in Christology has yet another important advantage. When the Christian church talks about moral issues in society apart from Jesus Christ, it impresses the populace as being prudish,
Ah yes, the almighty kindergarten teacher, the nanny state. You’re quite right, Sarah. We need to get the government out of our business. It’s a shame that the state thinks it has to enforce equality
In light of this first theological conclusion, we must affirm that the “normal” “civil” god of power and might is an idol, and it must be named as such. This god is not the Lord
Apr 01, 2011 by Gary Dorrien The common good is taking a beating. Economic inequality, to cite only the most important measure of social health, has accelerated dramatically in the U.S. since the early 1980s.
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 enterprise, Scot McKnight, a prominent
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 8:34pm Wright, in dealing with Jesus’ work as work that brings forgiveness of sins, looks to the narratives of the Deuteronomic history, picked up by Isaiah and others, that sin
But for Paul, the problem is not that individuals and communities sin and need forgiveness; in fact, Israel had a system of atonement to deal with sins. The problem is that sin and its henchman
The tea party that was so powerful in the Obama years, roiling Republican Party politics and making stars out of the likes of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, sputtered out and was subsumed by the
I reviewed the book The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution by Hank Hanegraaff last night. I was curious about what the arguments are that are put forth in this popular book. They are:
I was listening to one of N.T. Wright’s series on Jesus (it is available on the N. T. Wright website) and he said that the typical view of Jesus is that he just randomly wanders