Archive for the ‘Evangelicals’ Category

On Reading the Bible

In an essay at Modern Reformation, David Nienhuis presents the rather bleak case that Americans are biblically illiterate. What’s worse, their Evangelical counterparts are little better. A professor of New Testament Studies at Seattle Pacific, Nienhuis begins his survey of the Christian Scriptures...
February 15th, 2010 | Evangelicals | Read More

In Defense Of Complementarianism: A Response To Allen Yeh (Part 3)

In my last post I gave several theological arguments designed to undermine the presuppositions of egalitarianism, show that Christianity is inherently patriarchal, and prove that there does not need to be any inherent opposition between equality and hierarchy. Now I will examine three important Biblical...
December 3rd, 2009 | Culture, Evangelicals, Protestant, Religion | Read More

A Creed of Creeds

Article 1: Concerning the Symbolic Nature of Creeds Creeds are significant both to Christian theology and history. Saint Thomas Aquinas identified the Nicene Creed as the object of faith.  The Apostles Creed is frequently presented in orthodox Christian catechisms. The significance of creeds,...
November 30th, 2009 | Catholics, Evangelicals, Religion | Read More

In Defense Of Complementarianism: A Response To Allen Yeh (Part 2)

A few weeks ago I wrote this blog post as a response to this post by Dr. Allen Yeh on the Scriptorium, which was a non-theological case for egalitarianism. Now Dr. Yeh has written his second post, which purports to be a theological defense of egalitarianism. I am obliged to point out, however, that...
November 18th, 2009 | Evangelicals, Philosophy, Religion | Read More

Against Christianity by Peter Leithart

“Christianity is the heresy of heresies, the underlying cause of the weakness, lethargy, sickness, and failure of the modern church.”  So opens Peter Leithart’s Against Christianity. Dr. Leithart, a conservative Presbyterian minister and Senior Fellow of Literature and Theology at...
November 17th, 2009 | Book Reviews, Evangelicals | Read More

Internal Excommunication

Confronting discipline is uncomfortable. Walk by a person in the process of getting a traffic ticket. It’s awkward. Some pretend to be invisible. Others look with curiosity until the unfortunate driver sees them, then hurry away. In that situation, I often find myself feeling indignant towards the...
November 11th, 2009 | Catholics, Evangelicals, Protestant, Religion | Read More

Why Calvin? Why Now?

No one in the history of the church has been so equally reviled and adored by so many as John Calvin. Some of the greatest pastors, theologians and missionaries in both Great Britain and America have considered themselves Calvinists. And yet for the majority of modern American Evangelicalism, Calvin...
September 29th, 2009 | Culture, Evangelicals, Know Your Evangelicals, Protestant | Read More

God’s Grandeur and Evangelical Nonchalance

Grand language is a rarity these days, not only among bloggers, but also among the politicians and pastors from whom we used to expect it. Culturally, soaring rhetoric is endangered if not extinct. John McWhorter, for one, has noted this cultural trend. In an interview with Mars Hill Audio in 2003,...
July 29th, 2009 | Evangelicals | Read More

Twitter: Coming to a church near you?

Is the Holy Spirit at work on twitter?  According to a recent Time magazine article, it might be. Time recently highlighted a congregation in Michigan that has hosted about a dozen “Twitter Sundays”, complete with increased bandwith in the church sanctuary and training sessions for those...
June 8th, 2009 | Evangelicals, Media, Technology | Read More

Evangelicals Curbbed the Housing Bubble

Sorry Chris Hitchens, but God is pretty great for the economy. At least, that’s what the New York Times is saying. According to New York Times reporter Zubin Jelveh, there is good reason to think Evangelicals curbed the housing bubble. The article credits Evangelical optimism for the second coming...
March 31st, 2009 | Economy, Evangelicals | Read More