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

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

How my mind has changed Cross and contextHow my mind has changedAug 26, 2010 by Douglas John HallIt is by living and dying that one becomes a theologian, Martin Luther said. With that comment in

OCTOBER 10, 2017 One of the panelists in the ”Living the Questions” series, Barbara R. Rossing author of ‘The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation’ said that the whole book

Saturday, June 17, 2006 Charles Colson, Propositional Truth, and Inerrancy In the June 2006 issue of Christianity Today, evangelical go-to-guy Charles Colson had a column entitled “Emerging Confusion.” In this column, he spoke less about

In a recent post reflecting on Mark Smith’s book, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, Pete shared with readers how the “mainstream view” holds that “the Hebrew scriptures

Cary – one ecclesial tradition of interpretation among others. This was a serious problem for Protestant theologians, who were not used to thinking of themselves as belonging to a tradition of interpretation. It became very

9/29/08 “Dr. Dennis Bratcher argues that inerrancy as defined, for example, in the Chicago statement has “weakened the credibility of Scripture and created tremendous controversy,” “very specific theological agendas. The Bible is then read through

Peter Enns’ book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, is a vital contribution to the discussion about how Evangelicals should understand the Bible, one reviewer says of the book, which

4/18/06 “This uncertainty in turn, of course, begets a new and anxious eagerness for certainty: hence the appeal of fundamentalism, which in today’s world is not so much a return to a premodern worldview but