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Review: Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings
Review: Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings, (Selected and with an Introduction by his daughter, Susannah Heschel, Orbis, 2011) Abraham Heschel is one of the three or four most-read modern Jewish writers – by non-Jews – and probably the most popular Jewish theologian. This book is one of Orbis’ Modern Spiritual Masters series (other titles include […]
Who Wins? Two Books about Heaven and Hell
Sightings 8/15/2011 Who Wins? Two Books about Heaven and Hell — Martin E. Marty “Let’s you and him fight!†The old comic-book trope is good advice for bystanders as Mark Galli’s God Wins counters Rob Bell and his book Love Wins. The two are respected evangelical leaders, an editor and a pastor, […]
BIBLE STUDY: Three Helpful Books
So you have a bright young person in your family/church, who’s made a significant ‘commitment to Christ’ and wants some help understanding the Bible. Here are three suggestions, in the order I’d give them to her/him. (Why this order? Because, as C S Lewis says somewhere, early in one’s Christian life one is helped more […]
Archaeological Findings: the name of God YHWH
Interesting video link below…
Soren Kierkegaard on the Bible
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything […]
The World did not end on May 21st…
False Prophets and the End of the World The Bible has a lot to say about false prophets, false teachers, false Christs, and false doctrine. Both Testaments speak much to this. Yet for all the warnings, it seems that gullible people – even gullible, undiscerning and unbiblical Christians – are falling for these fakes all […]
Chuck Colson: Don’t Say ‘The Bible Says So’
By Chuck Colson| I want to say from the outset that I believe in biblical inerrancy, the sufficiency of scripture, and the doctrine the Reformers called Sola Scriptura. I need to tell you that up front, because you might otherwise get very upset at what I’m about to say. While we have to be immersed in […]
Killing in the Name of God
‘‘Killing in the Name of God’’ 1 William T. Cavanaugh The Lord God said ‘‘You shall not kill’’ and yet those who profess to be bound by these words do a lot of killing. Indeed, we are told, one of the most fundamental contemporary threats to world peace is the conviction of some that God […]
IS THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT THE FATHER OF JESUS?
(Discussion questions for a fairly well-educated study-group. There are many other issues of course: these are simply ‘starters’)… Any responses? In his book The God Delusion, atheist Richard Dawkins writes: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; […]
John: Introduced by Jean Vanier
John: Introduced by Jean Vanier (Darton, Longman & Todd, 2010) Reading the Fourth Gospel in one sitting, uninterrupted, is an incredible experience. Try it in a modern translation sometime (I’d suggest Eugene Peterson’s The Message). Here we have a small, pocket-sized 124-page volume, with the New Jerusalem Bible translation, and a five-page introduction by one […]
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