You and I Have a Different God, I Think

April 5, 2012 By 53 Comments

I’ve been watching the Adam and evolution debates/discussions on line, in social media, and in print. I think I am beginning to see more clearly what accounts for the deeply held, visceral, differences of opinion about whether Adam was the first man or whether Adam is a story. The reason for the differences is not simply that people have [...]

Filed Under: Adam, defending the faith, doctrine, Evangelicalism, evolution, fundamentalism, inerrancy, science and faith, The Evolution of Adam, theology 53 Comments

Guest Post: Is Inerrancy a Fundamental of the Christian Faith?

March 19, 2012 By 10 Comments

Today’s guest post is written by Carlos Bovell, who has recently written several posts for us, the most recent of which is here. Carlos is the author of four books that critique biblical inerrancy as intellectually problematic and (therefore) spiritually debilitating. In Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism (part of Zondervan’s Counterpoints Series), we read a [...]

Filed Under: Carlos Bovell, doctrine, Evangelicalism, fear, fundamentalism, inerrancy 10 Comments

Guest Post: We Believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Scriptures

March 2, 2012 By 25 Comments

Today we have a second guest post from Carlos Bovell. Carlos is becoming a leading critic of the evangelical notion of biblical inerrancy, but unlike other such critiques, his is not the rant of an outsider, but the careful, nuanced, and compelling observations of one coming from within an evangelical paradigm, drawing on his own [...]

Filed Under: biblical authority, Carlos Bovell, defending the faith, doctrine, Evangelicalism, fundamentalism, inerrancy 25 Comments

Did Paul Believe in the Bible?

November 18, 2011 By 46 Comments

I am here in San Francisco at the Society of Biblical Literature annual Sea of Tweed and Bowtie Geekfest. This is where biblical scholars from all over the world gather once a year to impress each other and buy books at half price. Yes I am cynical. I am wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and my Birkenstocks [...]

Filed Under: biblical authority, circumcision, doctrine, Paul 46 Comments

Fear Leads to Anger: Unpacking Theological Belligerence

October 29, 2011 By 33 Comments

My point: Belligerence in theological discussions is a reaction to a deep fear—typically unperceived—that one’s metanarrative is under threat. Let me put that in English: People fight about their views of God because they are afraid of the consequences of being wrong. Being wrong about God is fearful because it destabilizes their way of looking at the universe and [...]

Filed Under: anger, belligerence, defending the faith, doctrine, fear 33 Comments
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