Tag: History
Why Don’t Christians Question the Bible? [Common Thought]
Each morning my boys read to us a chapter of the Bible out loud. One is reading through the Old Testament and the other through the New Testament. This often spurs on questions and conversations […]
Reading the Bible Origen-ly [Course Reverie]
As our class on early church history continues, we focused most of our night on the person and work of Origen. A fascinating character in the early church. He was one of the first exegetes […]
Beginning with History & Identity [Course Reverie]
This last week began classes at Northern Seminary, and the class for my MANT cohort this fall quarter is over the first half of Christianity’s history. Dr. Nassif, our teacher, will place a strong emphasis […]
Larry Hurtado’s “Destroyer of the gods”
The week before classes I chose to read through a book on my shelf I’ve been waiting to have time for just to get the academic juices pumping again before the semester began. The book […]
Stuart Murray Williams’ “Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World”
In our class, Mission-Shaped Church with Dr. Fitch, the first book we read was Post-Christendom: Church in Mission in a Strange New World by Stuart Murray (Williams). Since our class focuses on culture, church practice, […]
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