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McLaren on Boundaries and Exclusiveness
On Boundaries and Exclusiveness: A few quotes/teasers from Brian McLaren’s chapter from The Secret Message of Jesus on the subject (‘The Borders of the Kingdom’ pp. 162 ff.): ‘How can some people interpret Jesus’ message as exclusive, while others see it as the most radically inclusive message in human history? What is the truth about […]
Brian McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus (2006)
‘What Jesus envisioned was a world transformed… If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.’ (Walter Wink)~~~ Brian McLaren has been ‘flavour of the decade’ for Christians to the right of, say, the Jesus Seminar people, and well to the left of, say, the ‘Evangelical Right.’ His mentors are […]
N. T. Wright
by Robert Stewart N. T. Wright consistently applies the hermeneutic that he outlined for his readers in The New Testament and the People of God as he seeks to analyze Jesus’ worldview in relation to questions he asks concerning the historical Jesus in Jesus and the Victory of God. This section will examine how he […]
C S Lewis on ‘The Historical Jesus’
[from The Screwtape Letters, Number 13] Many [scholars] think that Christianity began going wrong, and departing from the doctrine of its Founder, at a very early stage. [Hence] the conception of a ‘historical Jesus’ to be found by clearing away later ‘accretions and perversions’…. The advantages of these constructions, [changing] every thirty years or so, […]
The Historical Jesus (C S Lewis)
In his book, “The Screwtape Letters,” C.S. Lewis, a Cambridge professor and Christian apologist, writes a series of letters from a high-ranking devil named Screwtape to his younger nephew Wormwood, a tempter. This incredible book was written around either 1950 or 1960 (my current edition doesn’t give the original printing date) and reveals some of […]
Jesus’ Self-Understanding
Jesus ¯ ¿ ½ Self-Understanding (Originally published in The Incarnation, ed. S. T. Davis, D. Kendall, G. O ¯ ¿ ½Collins 2002, Oxford: OUP, 47 ¯ ¿ ½61. Original pagination is retained in bold italicized numbers. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT I INTRODUCTION (A): TODAY ¯ ¿ ½S SITZ IM LEBEN As I prepared to write this short chapter on Jesus ¯ ¿ ½ self-understanding, three […]
The Evidence For Jesus
Dr. William Lane Craig —————————————————————————— William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Jan and their two teenage children Charity and John. At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message […]
The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology (N T Wright)
The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology* (Originally published in Sewanee Theological Review 39, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT The quest for the historical Jesus began as a protest against traditional Christian dogma, but when the supposedly ‘‘neutral” historians peered into the well, all they saw was a featureless Jesus. Even […]
Two good books
From a netfriend: … Excellent books by Philip Jenkins. N.T. Wright recommends Jenkins’ book ‘Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way’, OUP, 2001. (Also read Jenkins’ ‘The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice’, OUP, 2003)
Living Jesus’ ‘Simple Way’
Over the past year, I have sought God’s direction regarding the crisis of our world. I felt God guiding me to Iraq, and six months ago I began blocking off March 2003 to make that possible. As the past few weeks have unfolded, I have spent hours in prayer and fasting, surrounded my elders who […]
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