For a survey class on Christian Thought I’m taking this semester (from the Protestant Reformation to Karl Barth) we’re using Carter Lindberg’s ‘The European Reformations’ as one of our texts. It is an excellent history, seamlessly merging the culture and … Continue reading →
An Evangelical Manifesto: My Thoughts You can read my initial synopsis and comments to the Evangelical Manifesto here. I’ve been holding off on writing my thoughts for a few days because in these situations I tend to be reactionary and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, Church History, Earl Barnett, Emerging Church, Evangelical Manifesto, Evangelicalism, Faith, Justification, Religion, Theology
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Evangelism is destroying the Church. Our constant focus on bringing those outside our communities inside, with little focus on genuinely making disciples has left our Churches a ‘mile wide, but merely an inch deep’ (to borrow an overused cliche). I … Continue reading →
Posted in Christianity, Church History, Emergence, Emerging Church, Historical Theology, Kirk Cameron, Random Bloggings, Ray Comfort, Religion, Theology
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Tagged Christianity, Conversion, Earl Barnett, Emerging Church, Evangelism, Faith, Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort, Religion, The Way of the Master, Theology
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This will be the first installment of my search through contemporary (1998- present) Christian thought on the philosophy we so dearly refer to as ‘postmodernism’. I’m not fully sure of the scope this survey will go, but with so many … Continue reading →
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Tagged Brian McLaren, Christianity, D.A. Carson, Doug Pagitt, Earl Barnett, Faith, John MacArthur, Postmodernism, Religion, Stanley Hauerwas, Theologians, Theology, Tony Jones
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From his sermon, ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?‘: “If a man is a genuine liberal, his primary protest is not against holding [conservative] opinions, although he may well protest against their being considered the fundamentals of Christianity. This is a free … Continue reading →
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Tagged Brian McLaren, Christianity, Church History, Earl Barnett, Emerging Church, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Historical Theology, Liberalism, N.T. Wright, Religion, Stephen Chalke, Theology
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This is an excerpt of Rudolph Bultmann’s “The New Testament and Mythology” taken from The Christian Theology Reader (2nd Ed.) pgs 71- 72: “The cosmology of the New Testament is essentially mythical in character. The world is viewed as a … Continue reading →
Posted in Alister McGrath, Books, Christianity, Church History, Historical Theology, Religion, Rudolph Bultmann, Theology
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Tagged Alister McGrath, Biblical Interpretation, Christianity, Earl Barnett, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Liberal Protestantism, Religion, Rudolph Bultmann, Theology
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I first was introduced to H. Richard Niebuhr’s 5 models of Christianity’s interaction with culture (from his book Christ and Culture) while reading Alister McGrath’s book, Christianity’s Dangerous Idea. Since being introduced to Nieburhr’s models I’ve also found that D.A. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alister McGrath, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Church History, Culture, Earl Barnett, Niebuhr, Theology
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While reading through ‘Christianity’s Dangerous Idea…‘ McGrath brings up an old, but still interesting question for those of us with an interest in Ecclesiology. Does the church have a right to expect its congregates to have perfectly ‘correct’ theology? The … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alister McGrath, Christianity, Church History, Donatism, Earl Barnett, St. Augustine, Theology
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Perhaps I’m late on this one, as I so often am… but unless I’m mistaken contemporary American Evangelicalism has taken the ‘sola scriptura‘ banner of the Reformation and perverted its meaning. It has perverted the meaning to the extent that … Continue reading →
I started reading ‘Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution–A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First‘ tonight because: 1) I admire Alister McGrath deeply and honestly have a bit of a theo-crush on the man’s ability to perform scholarship, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alister McGrath, Christianity, Church History, Historical Theology
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