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  • Sacred Texts in an Oral Culture—How Did They Function?

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    Ben Witherington: Sacred Texts in an Oral Culture—How Did They Function? Ours is a text based culture, a culture of written documents. You need look no further than your computer screens to verify this assertion. There could only be an internet age if there was widespread literacy, which in turn leads to widespread production and…

  • The Problem with Evangelical Theologies

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    The Problem with Evangelical Theologies is an interview with the Ben Witherington of Asbury Seminary, author of a new book called The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, and Wesleyanism. I especially liked this quote from the interview. We have to remember that those who wrote the Bible were not…