1/3/09 I was reading this sermon by Karl Barth in which he is resisting in 1933 the demand by the Nazis for the churches of Germany to include Aryan paragraph”, which the state used to
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross: Contemporary Images of the Atonement by Mark D. Baker, Ed. The thesis is that there are many ways of describing what happened on the cross, and claiming that ‘penal
Quotes on recorder made in August 2008, mostly from Bernard Ramm, ”After Fundamentalism” and a book by N.T. Wright but I don”t know which. One was ”New Testament and the People of God” so maybe
The bill also won over groups that had long blocked reform, like the American Medical Association. But congressional Republicans ultimately decided that opposing any bill, regardless of its substance, was in their political interest. The
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