Jesus Creed
Patheos has now installed Disqus commenting onto the Jesus Creed blog, we’ve had a full day using it, and so I’m wondering what you think of the Disqus commenting system: What do you like? What do you dislike? Read more
Patheos has now installed Disqus commenting onto the Jesus Creed blog, we’ve had a full day using it, and so I’m wondering what you think of the Disqus commenting system: What do you like? What do you dislike? Read more
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Michelle van Loon’s survey of 40+ leavers of churches includes the claim that some have outgrown what their local church offered. Is it possible to spiritually “outgrow” a local congregation? It is not only possible, it happens more often than you’d think. One trend I saw in my poll of those over 40 was that a notable percentage of those who’d changed churches or decreased their level of “official” involvement at their present congregation did so because they’d grown past what the... Read more
There is an excellent article in the March edition of Christianity Today: Bigger Than We Think by David Wilkinson that describes how the Christian doctrine of creation goes far deeper that just explaining how the world began. It goes far deeper than explaining the origin of life or the origin of the diversity of life. David Wilkinson received a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics from the University of Durham and a PhD in Systematic Theology from Cambridge University where he explored Christian... Read more
Isaiah 7:14 announces that a “young woman” will give birth to a child, a promise that God will be faithful and there will be a next generation. Fair enough. Matthew 1:23 says a “virgin will give birth to a child” and while this might suggest to some readers that God remains faithful, there’s some far more significant in that one word difference. Matthew has just told us that Mary conceived without Joseph and that the child was of the Holy... Read more
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J. Daniel Kirk, a fine young professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, has a new piece at the Fuller website on Adam and Christ. He’s asking if we need a historical Adam to believe what Paul says about Christ, but Daniel turns it around: since we know about Christ we can learn to think about Adam. So the issue is about Where we begin. New Testament scholarship over the past half century has developed the insight that the first data point... Read more
Patheos has now shifted Jesus Creed over to Disqus commenting, which means there will be some transitions… but the shift has worked well on other blogs at Patheos so we are anticipating a smooth move. Comments in the last day or two are in process of showing up again… Thanks for all the comments you offer at this blog. Read more
Why are some people courageous enough to speak up while others either see through the wrong but are afraid to speak up and yet others don’t even perceive the wrong? Last week on this blog I looked at Rudolf Bultmann, probably the most influential NT scholar of the 20th Century, a man whom his biographer, Konrad Hammann, contends opposed Hitler. Yet many of us think of the ultimate price Bonhoeffer paid at the same time. Was their opposition so markedly... Read more
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