Luke Timothy Johnson wants us to read Paul in all his complexity “What advantage do we gain by possessing a Pauline theology that lies outside and above his writings?”Nijay K. Gupta interviews Luke Timothy Johnson November 3,
The story is a bit more complex. In the late 1800s (under their first president), Wheaton was rather progressive. The second president (son of the first) was a dispensationalist who reversed all of that progress
8/16/19 Another result from ELCA Churchwide Assembly – ‘Adopted a resolution to condemn white supremacy, calling all ELCA congregations to engage in a “study of the structures and rhetoric that empower and fuel racism and
I read multiple books at the same time, the real strange part of this is jumping from century to century, as in the 19th to the 20th. This Edith Wharton book ‘Age of Innocence’ takes
Comment on Gitmo Barfab’s blog: it reminds me of the first time I got on Facebook and happened to quote something from the magazine ‘Rolling Stone.’ A guy from my previous church immediately jumped on
The question at issue was not, How can individual sinners find salvation? but rather, Are Christian Jews bound, by the Jewish kosher laws, to eat separately from Christian Gentiles, or are they bound by the
‘But for Paul, the problem is not that individuals and communities sin and need forgiveness; in fact, Israel had a system of atonement to deal with sins. The problem is that sin and its henchman
2/3/11 The theme of the unmasking of hypocrisy is seen in two different books I am reading, Darkness at Noon and The Invisible Man. In both the protagonist believes in the abstract ideals of the
Nevertheless, we’re likely to enter a period in which the U.S. is simply one of a number of economic powers that challenge one another for dominance. Paul Kennedy, a historian of the rise and fall
The Karl Barth Centennial: An Appreciative Critique “from all eternity God has determined upon man’s acquittal at his own cost” (Dogmatics II, 2, p. 167). Therefore, “there is no such thing as a created nature