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.

I have been reading Fortress Introduction to the Gospels by Mark Allan Powell where he talks about various differences in the synoptic gospels as to emphasis and details. It reminded me of my days at

1/3/10 We could apply this hermeneutical rule to many other passages, but I won’t belabor the point. The heart of the issue is that we need to overcome and finally reject the 18th-century notion that

I have been reading Fortress Introduction to the Gospels by Mark Allan Powell where he talks about various differences in the synoptic gospels as to emphasis and details. It reminded me of my days at

Thursday, January 03, 2013 I finished ‘Sacred Word/Broken Word’ by Kenton Sparks – that along with Peter Enns’ ‘Incarnation and Inspiration’, Christian Smith ‘Making the Bible Impossible’ and Lawrence Boadt ‘Reading the OT’ pretty much sums up the

8/12/2009 8:22:18 AM(Bovel died in 2012) In Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (Brazos, 2009), former ETS president Francis Beckwith writes: “My Evangelical Protestant contemporaries seemed to treat the Bible as if it

“A close historical-critical examination of the Bible quickly demolishes any naive ideas about inerrancy. Looking historically at the origins of Scripture and the Christian faith can indeed be a crisis for many people. Evangelicals in

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

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