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
A class on the Bible At St Andrew is interesting. We talked last week about ‘narrative truth’ vs. ‘factual truth’ – the first is the truth such as ‘my favorite color’ that you can’t prove.