Theology
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [4]
(Part Four) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. The whole issue [of biblical authority/inerrancy] has become very complex. One of the problems with the inerrancy position is that it is but a short step away from validating biblical statements about the cosmos from contemporary science. […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [1]
(Part One) (Adapted from chapter one of Recent Trends Among Evangelicals by Rowland C.Croucher), 1986/1995. What is an evangelical? There are now, says one evangelical seminary professor on the US west coast, sixteen kinds of ‘evangelicals’! If, as the truism puts it, the only constant thing is change, that dictum is certainly true of evangelicals […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [2]
(Part Two) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. Evangelicals today A significant variation in evangelicals’ ‘confessions of faith’ took place in the 1970s, which provides the major clue to their ‘growing edge’. Back in 1951, the British Inter-Varsity Fellowship revised their ‘Official Interpretation of the […]
Thinking Christianly
From Os Guiness, an evangelical Christian, “Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals don’t think and what to do about it” ( Baker Books; Grand Rapids:1994) p. 143 A fourth misconception concerns the idea that thinking Christianly is a form of uniformity – in other words, that if we all think Christianly we will all think […]
What IS the gospel / good news???
What is recorded in Mark and Matthew about the CONTENT of the gospel that Jesus preached? A background is required ….. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BIBLE TIMELINE 48 or 49 CE. – Paul’s first letters Thessalonians & Galatians 62 CE. – Paul’s last written letter Colossians 65 CE -75 CE. – Mark’s gospel written in Rome 85 CE. […]
Testing your Christian orthodoxy
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John Milton on learning
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From John Milton’s “Areopagitica” (1644) [Appleton- Century Crofts; New York:1951] p. 14 ” … the example of Moses, Daniel, and Paul, who were skilful in the learning of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not possibly be without reading their books of all sorts, in Paul especially, who thought it no defilement to […]
Tolerance
Pirates, Moors, Neighbors, and other Barbarians March 9, 2003 Rev. Susan Ritchie A Service for the North Unitarian Universalist Congregation from http://www.nuuc.org/sermon20030309.html ………….. [John] Locke believed in both the importance of reason in religion, and also the limits of reason in religion. No one can embrace a religion, he taught, without having it make sense […]
Science and theology
From a friend: Too much of the church’s theological interpretation has been set by scientific methodology, much more than we would like to admit. the rise of science, Darwin, and Newtonian physics have set the terms of debate and discussion for the better part of a couple of centuries. The critical methodologies by which scriptural […]
Understanding God’s Word
One person wrote: It strikes me that we are vesting the idea of “objectivity” with two quite different meanings. By “objective” I meant that the text has a meaning independent of our speculations about it. I think, however, that you take “objective” to mean “universally accessible to all persons.” if one employs “objective” in the […]
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