Iconophobia is part of a wider phenomenon: aversion to the physical expression of religion, to nonverbal ritual performance. I am calling this sacramentalism, and the fear of it sacraphobia. Thanks to Zwingli and Calvin, the
Borg – Conventional wisdom is not to be identified with any particular tradition.; it is pervasive in all traditions. To emphasize the point once again: the conflict between conventional wisdom and alternative wisdom is not
Right-brained apologeticsWriter Francis SpuffordDec 04, 2014 by David HeimChristian Century Francis Spufford has won several literary awards in Great Britain for his nonfiction works, which include I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English
11/7/08 It would not do simply to announce that there was a man who had died, even who had died a particularly brutal death, and who had then been found to be alive. That is
8/17/06 Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind – it was cited in Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers by Christopher A. Hall, who talks about Chafer’s pseudo-scientific way of exegiting the Scriptures in
Phillip Cary locates the heart of Protestantism in the gospel promise it reveals.by Jason Micheli May 18, 2020IN REVIEWJun 3, 2020 issue Christian CenturyThe Meaning of Protestant TheologyLuther, Augustine, and the Gospel That Gives Us
4/6/2010 8:41:16 AM My problem with “The Truth Project” is that it does precisely what I warn against. It mixes legitimate doctrines of the church with a lot of positions that are based on partisan
9/27/09 But we may catch something of the real flavor if we say that Jesus was more like a politician on the campaign trail than a schoolmaster; more like a composer/conductor than a violin teacher;
9/20/09 If liberals tend toward intellectual antinomianism, then fundalit evangelicals tend toward doctrinal donatism. do you refer to conservatives’ tendency to want to exclude those that don’t follow the given set of beliefs and positions
3/30/08 Sailhamer’s view of Hos 11:1. When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more I called them, the more they went from me; they