Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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Paul and Original Sin
Jul 14th
Scott asked me the other day what I thought about original sin. I told him that I did not buy into the Calvinist view of Original Sin, but that I knew that Wesleyan theology held to Original Sin but that we are still able to accept the gift of Salvation with free will. Not a very good answer, I know, but I was being honest. I think one view is foolish and unfounded, I know of another view which seems more palpable, but in the end, I have sinned and OS doesn’t really matter to me. It’s worth noting that I come from, though am no longer a part of, a denomination that has historically denied the doctrine.
But, as I was doing some fact-checking on McLaren’s sections on Romans, I came across this passage on Paul and Original Sin…
I follow Bell, I follow Driscoll, I follow Piper
Jun 25th
I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. For some members of Chloe’s household have told me about your quarrels, my dear [...]
Faith or Evidence First?
Jun 12th
I have a sneaking suspicion that if we believe in the truths of the Bible about God the world’s meaning because of rational arguments and empirical evidence (Lee Strobel/Josh McDowell, anyone?), then we actually have faith in rationality and empiricism. I tweeted about it the other day and had a fun conversation with my good [...]
A Church Father on TULIP
May 26th
“The liberty of believing or not believing is placed in free choice. In Deuteronomy, it says, ‘Look! I have set before your face life and death, good and evil. Choose for yourself life, that you may live.’”
- Cyprian, 250 AD, 5.547
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When God borrows from us.
Apr 20th
I am in the middle of listening to Sin: A History by Gary Anderson while I drive to Moberly three days a week. It is a fascinating book; one that I will need to re-read this summer to fully understand. Right now I am trying to focus on gleaning insights from how 2nd Temple Jews [...]
On the Essence of Christianity
Apr 9th
These wise words can guide us from the depths of hubris up into the oceans of humility and finally into the active land of creatively morphing our faith forward:
Immersion in the literature of the 5th and 6th centuries has slowly eroded any lingering conviction that I had that throughout these centuries Christianity stood for [...]
An Early Christian Hymn – The Johannine Prologue ?
Mar 12th
Almost everyone recognizes the highly stylized format of the introduction to the Gospel according to John. There are those that suggest that this is an insertion of an early Xian hymn. There are detractors to be sure, but in a recent article in the Journal of Biblical Literature[1] Gordley suggests that John 1:1-17 is one [...]
Can’t Touch This!
Jan 7th
Over at Nature, I just read that roughly 8% of our DNA (and the DNA of all mammals) comes from viruses. I wonder how people that view Genesis 1-11 as Rein Geschichte[1] deal with such discoveries, as it would imply that humans are the result of a long developmental process instead of created ex [...]
Foundationalism
Dec 8th
A few days ago, I posted a picture which I thought demonstrated the relationship between Modernism, Foundationalism, Fundamentalism, and Christianity. I’d like to clarify what I am talking about there, here. And critique it:
A rough approximation of how Modernism, Foundationalists, Fundamentalists, and Christianity relate to one another.
By Modernism, I mean the paradigm(s) of [...]
Wright on Moving Beyond the Words of Scripture
Jan 2nd
Posted by Henry Imler in Bible
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The Church can and must, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, develop words, concepts, discourse of all sorts, out beyond our narrow confines of exegesis.
That is what happened with Athanasius, holding out for the non-biblical term homoousion to express, against Arius, the radically biblical view of the divinity of Christ.
We cannot reduce the [...]