Theology
Why Evangelicals don’t think and what to do about it
about it” READ & DISCUSS 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. 9 -11 …a leading problem in American evangelicalism – anti-intellectualism. Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life […]
Hermeneutics (again)
Hi (to a netfriend): My point about many hermeneutical approaches has to do with our limitations in seeing the whole beyond the parts (the wood and the trees etc.). Inevitable, I would have thought, when humans with their limitations try to understand/explain the ways of God. Take Luke/Acts’ and the Johannine documents’ varying treatment of […]
Biblical interpretation (again)
From three netfriends (1) (2) (3) (1) Once again, thanks for taking my challenge seriously, and challenging me to keep thinking. I particularly appreciate his setting out of his argument in such a clear and systematic way. Ultimately though, I think his argument ends up just reinforcing my point, which is that if the Bible […]
Biblical interpretation (again)
First a couple of excerpts (patched from two of another’s contributions): I too am sure that there is much light to break forth from his word – I am somewhat more skeptical whether there is much light to break forth from outside of it. Might I (finally) make the point that it is quite wrong […]
The authority of the Bible (more)
From an Australian netfriend, on the authority of the Bible : 1. It is naive, I think, to make any hard and fast distinctions between the authority of the bible and the authority of the church. It was the people of God who decided what was canonical and what was not, and, importantly, this happened […]
Authority of Scripture
One (Baptist) netfriend wrote: I think one _can_ hold scripture up as an absolute authority _and_ advocate for freedom of conscience – only so long as one does not at the same time advocate a simplistic approach to biblical interpretation. A second Baptist responded: I want to respond only to one comment made here, which […]
Interpreting the Scriptures
First netfriend wrote: I believe that Scripture, as opposed to Augustine’s or anyone else’s reflections on God, is normative and supremely authoritative even though not exhaustive about God. A second responded: I believe that too, but I think that it is a theoretical belief or a creedal affirmation which doesn’t ultimately make much difference to […]
Conservative Biblical Interpretation
From a netfriend (on a list I subscribe to): Earlier in this discussion, while commenting on JI Packer’s attempted division of us all into two camps, I said that in practice, the first tends to mutate into little more than a form of conservative family values, and the second mutates into worldly liberal values. The […]
Scripture and God
From a netfriend: I was reminded of this passage from Alister McGrath’s Understanding Jesus: “When I began to study theology at Oxford, one of my tutors was a Jesuit at Campion Hall. As I climbed the staircase leading to his room, I used to pass a gigantic painting of a man and a small boy […]
Hermeneutics: a conversation between some Baptists
One netfriend: I have to confess that the debate about homosexuality is secondary to the broader, and in many ways more difficult question of discerning and testing limits. 1. Sometimes we need to push things to their logical conclusion. I hold the dictum that heresy is often orthodoxy pushed to its logical limits. Unless and […]
Categories
Articles may be reproduced in any medium, without applying for permission
(provided they are unedited, and retain the original author/copyright information - and a reference to this website :-)!
26,756 articles online.
Protected by Akismet, Digital Ninjas and an Ion Cannon. Really.
Blog with WordPress