Theology
Warning Signs of a Destructive Cult
Warning Signs of a Destructive Cult (The following Warning Sings of a destructive cult is found at http://www.factnet.org/headlines/destructive_cult_warning_signs.html .) Anyone could attack a group they disagree with by unfairly labeling it a destructive cult. How would you know whether it really were such a cult or not? Isn’t there an objective method to evaluate groups […]
Christian Reflections and Other Essays
Christian Reflections and Other Essays Allen Adams Reprinted with permission of the author Christianity and Literature Lewis here writes about Christianity and literature, specifically what is Christian literature and how does it differ with secular literature. He read this paper to a religious society at Oxford fairly early in his Christian walk. The question he […]
C. S. Lewis’s Theology
C. S. LEWIS’S THEOLOGY: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN RANSOM AND REEPICHEEP JAMES TOWNSEND Bible Editor Cook Communications Elgin, IL I. INTRODUCTION Would you like to pretend that you haven’t just read the title above and to try your hand at a trivia quiz? Here goes. Who was the gentleman who: was converted to Christianity while riding to […]
Higher Criticism Has Gone Bankrupt
Higher Criticism Has Gone Bankrupt An expert on the disappointing “higher criticism” of the Bible said a few years ago in 1978: “It is ironic that just at a time when the limitations of the historical critical method are being discovered in Protestantism, Roman Catholic scholars should be bent on pursuing that method so relentlessly.” […]
Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (C S Lewis)
C S Lewis’ 1959 address on “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism,” where he defends the historicity of the New Testament accounts of Christ’s miracles, critiques the [M]an who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of NT texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experiences of those texts lacks […]
Book Review: James D G Dunn, ‘A New Perspective on Jesus’
Book Review: James D G Dunn, ‘A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed’ (Baker 2005).> Dunn’s thesis: the modern (last two centuries’) ‘quest for the historical Jesus’ is seriously flawed, and was flawed from the outset. Modern Western scholars tend to look back at Jesus ‘through the lens of […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Chris wrote: Lets just have a quick look at the bible. Genesis 2, second part of verse 4 onwards (the second account of creation) Don: Well, at least you are on the topic, Chris. Chapter 2 is not a second account of creation. It is the details of the creation and the context of Adam […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Ken Smith [K] wrote: A quick response to one part of Don’s response. I’ll give a response to some other parts in a subsequent response. [snip] Now let’s at least get Galileo straight. This debate is, in part, at least about how the Bible is to be interpreted. D: Yes, let’s get it straight, and […]
The Ground of all Being
By Metacrock (http://www.doxa.ws/Being/Being2.html) We tend to think of God as a big man with a beard, or some sort of powerful “person” like a human being, although one who can do amazing things. This is just the childish version, it is conditioned in our thinking by a pedestrian approach to religion. There are religions that […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis? (Ken again)
(Note from Rowland: I’m posting here a sample of posts – mainly by Ken and Don, from a May 2005 discussion on the newsgroup aus.religion.christian. For other posts in this thread go to Google/Groups). This is the second of what I expect will be a number of postings simply providing quotations from various scientists, and, […]
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