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Applying Divine-Human Scriptures
ByhenryI’ve used the term phrase “divine-human combination” or something quite close to it several times over the last few days. It’s easy to make it appear that this concept of inspiration, sometimes called “incarnational” is largely a tool to deal with the difficult parts of scripture. When I read “love your neighbor as yourself” I…
Sacrifice then and Now
ByhenryWhat meaning is evoked in people’s minds by the word “sacrifice?” One of the things I like to do when teaching is to simply write a word on the board that is commonly used in Biblical and/or Christian discourse and get people to give me various things that this word means to them. I try…
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Interpreting the Bible – Mid-Course Focus
ByhenryThis isn’t a summary of previous posts, but rather an attempt to focus on the issue I’m trying to address with this series before I continue. The problem with a series like this is that the examples begin to take over the topic. Since I have used complementarianism and theistic evolution as examples, and brought…
Jon Stewart on the Debt Deal
ByhenrySometimes one finds more truth in comedy than in the regular medai. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Of course, if you think about it, we, the American people, would thus be our own worst enemy. And regarding the 77% who think our leaders…
Liberal, Charismatic, Moderate, and Passionate
ByhenryMy blog subtitle reads: Thoughts on Religion in the World from a passionate, moderate, liberal charismatic Christian. One common response to this line is to tell me that it’s impossible to combine those four things into one, so I’d like to provide a few notes on why I use these four labels when self-identifying. First,…
Scot McKnight: Is Low Church Evangelicalism Protestant?
ByhenryI find this an interesting question. But before I comment, let me summarize and quote Scot McKnight’s article. He first notes that from the early liturgies to the Westminster Confession there is a certain common pattern in worship, one which is dropped by what he calls “low church evangelicalism.” Amongst the elements he includes the…
