Peter Flint - Dead Sea Scrolls .org (deadseascrolls.org) Book Review: Holy Ignorance. Jesus the Artist. Today's entry was written by Pete Enns. Please note the views expressed here are those of the author, not necessarily of The BioLogos Foundation. You can read more about what we believe here. In another post, my colleague Mark Sprinkle drew a very helpful analogy between Jesus’ use of parables and the creative expressions of artists. There is one part of that post that I think is particularly important for BioLogos readers to grapple with, and I would like to expand on it below from the point of view of a biblical scholar. [T]he purpose of Jesus’ “art” was to give verbal, visual, and dramatic forms to those complicated and confounding relationships and symmetries and harmonies between Himself (and the Father and Spirit) and the world, ourselves included in the latter.
Such creative expressions did and do not make everything clear, but rather resist simple clarity, forcing their hearers to come at the whole complicated, opaque truth from a position of intellectual and spiritual humility. Uploads/projects/louis_white_paper.pdf. Religion online. Ehrman Project. Why I Am Not a Young Earth Creationist | Faith Interface. I am not a Young Earth Creationist. There are very well-considered reasons why this is so. In fact, more than just not being a YECreationist, I feel strongly that YEC is damaging to the credibility of Christian theism, provides more fuel for common perjorative caricatures of Christians and the nature of Christian faith and, most tragic of all, forces many Christians (especially young people trying to move from the faith of their parents to their own personal faith committment) to embrace false dichotomies regarding science and faith, biblical interpretation and biblical authority.
Sadly, this often results in such people having a crisis of faith, with many losing their Christian faith altogether. If ever non-Christians could right accuse Christians of ‘blind faith’ – stubbornly believing in something despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary – YEC would take the cake. The basic underlying error in YEC is an incorrect hermaneutical interpretation of the Genesis creation account . “Light on the Old Testament from the Ancient Near East”
Table of Contents Written during King's first semester at Crozer Theological Seminary for James Bennett Pritchard's class on the Old Testament, the topic and content of the essay reflect Pritchard's interests in biblical studies, which were the strengths of the seminary's faculty. Pritchard exposed his students to ancient Near Eastern texts, his edition of which secured his professional reputation.1 Pritchard later recalled: "I do have, of course, vivid memories of [King] in my class in Old Testament and of his interest in the Hebrew Prophets. On a more informal level were the numerous occasions when he came to our home on the campus to stay with our two young daughters when we would be out for the evening. They too came to know and to appreciate him. "2 Pritchard gave the paper a B and commented: "Good conclusion! You must watch spelling, be consistent in your use of caps, etc. Fortunately, through numerous excavations and assiduous decipherings, that door has been opened.
The Bible and Interpretation. The No-man's-land of Biblical Studies: Isn't it odd? By Tim Bulkeley Carey Baptist College, Laidlaw-Carey Graduate December 2010 The Bible's most vociferous cultured despisers, the so-called neo-atheists, argue that (read literally as some sort of instruction manual) the Bible supports all sorts of barbarity. Christopher Hitchens calls it “a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human animals.”
Sam Harris points out that thankfully few Christians follow the advice of Dt 13:7-11 and stone to death any of our children who convert to other faiths. That's not strange, the challenge they pose is a reasonable and necessary one. What is strange is that their reading of Scripture is one that Jewish and Christian tradition across the millennia has NOT practiced. Notes Comments (12) SBL Blogger and Online Publication Podcasts « New Testament Interpretation. Luther Christian Nobility. Dr. Martin Luther, to his Most Serene and Mighty Imperial Majesty, and to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation: The grace and strength of God be with you, Most Serene Majesty!
And you, most gracious and well-beloved lords! It is not out of mere arrogance and perversity that I, an individual, poor and insignificant, have taken it upon me to address your lordships. The distress and misery which oppress all ranks of Christendom, especially in Germany, have moved not me alone, but everybody, to cry aloud for help; this it is that now compels me to cry out and call upon God to send down his Spirit upon some one who shall reach out a hand to this wretched people.
The Romanists have, with great adroitness, drawn three walls round themselves, with which they have hitherto protected themselves, so that no one could reform them, whereby all Christendom has suffered terribly. Thirdly, if they are threatened with a council, they invented the notion that no one may call a council but the Pope.
Lesson plans for the Reformation: NEH seminar. As part of the 2009 NEH Summer Institute "Making Sense of the Reformation" participant high school teachers developed sample lessons plans which are listed below for use as a resource for other high school teachers looking for ways to effectively teach the Reformation in various high school courses. Lesson Plan (pdf) from Elizabeth Bierling-Powers of Washingtonville Central Schools, Washingtonville, NY Lesson Plan (pdf) from Daren Blanck of Pequot Lakes High School, Pequot Lakes, MN Lesson Plan (pdf) from Cathy Borri of Kenowa Hills High School, Grand Rapids, MI Lesson Plan (pdf) from Susan Cullen of Bethlehem Central High School, Delmar, NY Lesson Plan (pdf) from LaNesha DeBardelaben of Flint Community Schools, Flint, MI Lesson Plan (pdf) from David Dore of Westwood High School, Westwood, MA Lesson Plan (pdf) from Jayson Evaniuck of Releigh-Egypt High School, Memphis, TN Lesson Plan (pdf) from Matthew Frick of Salt Lake Lutheran High School, Salt Lake City, UT.
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