Editor’s note: Scripture references are to the NASB unless otherwise noted. This essay is a summary of the author’s argument in “Ascertaining Women’s God-Ordained Roles: An Interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:15, ” Bulletin of Biblical Research 7 (1997): 1-38. “But women will be saved through childbearing” (NIV): this simple statement has mystified average Bible readers […]
Some people hope that Pope Francis will change the Church’s teaching on contraception. He won’t. He couldn’t even if he wanted to—as Church history and Scriptures show. Part two of two. Source: Can the Pope Change Catholic Teaching? | Public Discourse
There are three groups within the existing Benedict Option discussions: the Augustinian radicals, magisterial Protestants, and illiberal Catholics. Source: Categorizing the Benedict Options | Mere Orthodoxy
Source: The Reformation and public theology: What 16th century theologians can teach a 21st century church | ERLC
Most Christians agree theology is important, but can’t articulate why. These reasons can help. Source: Ten Reasons Why Theology Matters | Christianity Today
Some Catholics have abandoned philosophy as a central component of the church’s discourse. Source: Contemporary philosophy has a problem: theology | America Magazine
Yom Kippur and the Gospel: The Blood that makes Atonement. Source: Yom Kippur and the Gospel
How Judaism looks at justice and mercy. Source: Why Jews Appeal Their Fate for Ten Days Before Yom Kippur | PJ Media
I have made no secret of my disagreement with the historical and theological reasoning Mark Noll employed to lump together dispensationalists, holiness churches, and Pentecostals in his indictment of evangelicalism’s anti-intellectual impulse. Yet Noll and George Marsden, among others, have rightly pointed out how activism operates as a fundamental force within evangelical identity. This operation […]
Two years after a study found most Evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical—especially on the Holy Spirit—an update has been released. And the numbers are in some ways even worse. So who—or what—is to blame? Source: Evangelicals, Heresy, and Scripture Alone | Mathew Block | First Things
