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  • Care for the Poor – Unrealistic?

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    Presbyterian Outlook: Care for the Poor – Unrealistic? "… Yes, I know that the Bible does teach us to care for the poor, and I accept that, in principle, just as my colleagues accept fidelity and (to some extent) chastity – in principle. But if we begin to ask the same questions about caring for…

  • New Testament Origins

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    Yesterday we began a review of Kenneth Bailey's Interpreting the Bible DVD by looking at the idea of inspiration and the origins of the Old Testament. Today we visit the origins of the New Testament. Each gospel is believed to have been written in the last half of the first century. By the beginning of…

  • Biblical Authority in Emerging Christianity

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    I have written several times about the foundationalist nature of theology and scripture in modernism. Liberal theology looks for a universal experience common to all humanity as its foundation for theology. The universal experience becomes the interpretative lens for doing theology and usually reduces scripture to a high expression of the universal experience, but it…