I recently got a copy of The Expanded Bible, New Testament, published by Thomas Nelson. It’s text is a modified New Century Version, and the “contributing scholars” are Tremper Longman III, Mark L. Strauss, and Daniel Taylor. I’m new to … Continue reading
On his blog, Peter Enns has been sharing portions of a paper he delivered to the faculty at Westminster Theological Seminary in response to his book, Incarnation and Inspiration that got him into trouble and now into suspension. In a recent … Continue reading
[this is a response to a comment by Henry to my post 1972] Thanks again for your comments, your thoughtfulness, and your graciousness. I appreciate you engaging these thoughts, offering questions, and even challenges. (By the way… do I know you?) … Continue reading
Speaking of the eyes with which we look at the world, I want to quote another thing from McLaren in The Other Journal Interview. He says the following: …the headlines of the newspaper tell us what the crises are, and … Continue reading
McLaren, in the interview I mentioned earlier, talks about how this deconstruction works. I mentioned that the emerging church is a kind of “back to the Bible movement,” even though many see it as unorthodox. It may be, in some ways, … Continue reading
Henry asks some great, probing questions. [see his comment under "How Deconstruction Saved My Faith 2] And just as an aside… Henry… I really appreciate how you’ve written these questions and challenges to myself and to the emerging postmoderns in the … Continue reading
I’ve been writing a bit lately about the issues of “who’s in” and “who’s out” and drawing firm boundary lines within evangelicalism. There are some these days who are tightening up the theological borders, while others are in favor of … Continue reading