Theology
Lutheran Scholar converts to Orthodox Church
http://www.orthodoxonline.com/ Most stunning perhaps was, in 1996, the conversion of Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale University’s celebrated church historian and Luther scholar. Here is a man who has co-edited 22 of the 55 volumes of Luther’s Works in English, and then late in life he “moved East,” as some theologians like to say. “I was the Lutheran […]
Hell
Mark wrote: What does Hell look like? Who is there? The Hell of the Bible is one of these two pictures. Do you know which one? You might be surprised. VISIT http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/ IMPORTANT FACTS 1.. Gehenna was a well-known locality near Jerusalem, and ought no more to be translated Hell, than should Sodom or Gomorrah. […]
Debate on Post-Resurrection Narratives
http://www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-72745.html
Questions About the Biblical Canon
G Rumney Just how we ended up with the Old and New Testaments as we have them today is an interesting tale, one that most of us know little or nothing about. Most people are aware that Catholic editions of the Bible include sections (in fact whole books such as 1 & 2 Maccabees) not […]
Earthism and the end of the world
One pastor-friend wrote: I read this guy’s speech with some alarm. [If you haven’t read it, a journalist claims the ‘Left Behind’ -type thinking of the Bush administration is opposed to any concern for the environment or world peace]. See http://jmm.org.au/articles/14668.htm I think one of the most significant moves in my thinking came when I […]
Skeptics Annotated Bible
From David to Jason (in a Usenet newsgroup post): The very very examples that we, as your critics have been able go generate as rebuttal have received NO ANSWER from you. See http://www.gastrich.org For examples. Jason: It’s on CD-ROM and it’s also bundled with some fantastic, Bible resources, David: Most of which were pirated somewhat […]
Beyond blind faith
Seeing beyond blind faith to a dire revelation March 9, 2005 Bill Moyers, the founding director of Public Affairs Television in Washington, retired three months ago, one of the United States’ most honoured journalists. Harvard Medical School that same month named him the recipient of its fourth annual Global Environmental Citizen Award. Moyers’s acceptance speech […]
What Can We Really Know about Jesus?
Evaluating the fragmentary evidence Wayne A. Meeks: Woolsey Professor of Biblical Studies Yale University Every Christian sooner or later has to ask the question, “Who was Jesus really?” And we ask this in our age in a special way because we are very historically oriented. We are modern, or perhaps post-modern, people, but all of […]
Just how shocking is the Gospel?
Sunday morning, I went to hear Rev. James Buchanan preach at Fourth Presbyterian Church, “a light in the City” in the shadow of the Hancock Building, at Michigan and Chestnut streets on the Magnificent Mile. It was an amazing experience – one of the first places that I have felt really welcomed into a church […]
Jesus the Jew
HE WAS BORN, LIVED AND DIED AS A JEW Jesus’ identity cannot be understood apart from his Jewishness Harold W. Attridge: The Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament Yale Divinity School What was the dominant religious influence on [Jesus]? Jesus was certainly subject to the influence of the traditions of Israel, there’s no doubt about […]
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