The Future of Christian Eschatology 1
This is a 5-part series we will post this entire week at about this time. It will unpack a "partial preterist" view of Jesus' eschatology. Oddly enough, I was interviewed last week by CBS TV in Chicago...
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Historical Jesus Studies: A Dead End?
Let me define historical Jesus studies as the attempt to get behind the canonical Gospels to discover what the real Jesus was like. Inherent to the historical Jesus discipline is the belief that the...
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A Brother’s Wisdom 67
James 4:7-10 contains a list of commands and prohibitions, with an occasional promise. Here is the text, and you can read it and see if you think here is a discernible structure:Submit yourselves,...
View ArticleYS, NYWC and Cincy
Thursday evening I flew down to Cincinnati for the National Youth Workers Convention, which everyone seems to call YS -- Youth Specialties. I love speaking to youth pastors, in part no doubt because...
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Faith and the Future 2 (RJS)
Tuesday I began a series of posts looking at Harvey Cox's new book The Future of Faith. Today I would like to look at Chapter 3 - Ships Already Launched. Cox begins this chapter by dismissing the idea...
View ArticleCT and the Historical Jesus
Some of you may have seen our piece in Christianity Today called "The Jesus We'll Never Know." The essence of my article is that "historical Jesus" studies, the official Historical Jesus enterprise,...
View ArticleWright, Hays, and History as Apologetic (RJS)
This last week I (RJS - not Scot) have spent my commute listening to the audio from the Wheaton Theology Conference: Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T. Wright. This is...
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Telling Our Story – The Story of Jesus (RJS)
This last week I (RJS not Scot) have spent my commute listening to the audio from the Wheaton Theology Conference: Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T....Read the full...
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Did Jesus really walk on water? (RJS)
Although I have often interacted here with posts on other blogs, I have not generally paid a great deal of attention to the comments on those other blogs. There was an interesting comment on Peter...
View ArticleWhat Did Jesus Know? (RJS)
Scot occasionally tries his hand with posts related to evolution - so I suppose I can post on Jesus. This post though has a great deal to do with the discussion of the relationship between science and...
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