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Our Debt to Heresy: Mapping Boundaries
Vol. 10, No. 3 • May/Jun 2001
An early caution against heresy can be found in our Lord’s warning to his disciples: “Take heed, beware the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of the Sadducees” (Matt. 16:6). The disciples were confused and thought Jesus was rebuking them because they had brought no bread. He had to explain to them that he […]
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The Fine Art of Wine Making
An early caution against heresy can be found in our Lord’s warning to his disciples: “Take heed, beware the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of the Sadducees” (Matt. 16:6). The disciples were confused and thought Jesus was rebuking them because they had brought no bread. He had to explain to them that he […]
Why the Meaning of Heresy Changes in Pluralistic Contexts
The impact of modernity on religion is commonly seen in terms of the process of secularization, which can be described simply as one in which religion loses its hold on the level both of institutions and of human consciousness. This is not the place to review the by-now immense literature on the causes, character, and […]
The Pelagian Captivity of the Church
Shortly after the Reformation began, in the first few years after Martin Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg, he issued some short booklets on a variety of subjects. One of the most provocative was titled The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. In this book Luther was looking back to that […]
A Vulnerable God Apart from Christ?
Several provocatively titled books published by evangelical houses in recent years advance the position frequently called “open theism.” Huntington College professor John Sanders has written The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence (InterVarsity Press, 1998), Baptist pastor and Bethel College professor Gregory Boyd has written a book titled God of the Possible: A Biblical […]
Tom Oden on Paleo-Orthodoxy
MR: Summarize for our readers your own movement from liberalism to evangelical Christianity.TO: Once blown by every wind of doctrine and preoccupied with therapeutic fads and the ethos of hypertoleration, I came by grace to grasp the distinctive theological method of orthodoxy. I became fascinated with the hermeneutics of orthodoxy, the dynamics of apostolic tradition […]
Why the Jesus We Want May Not Be the Jesus We Need
I must confess that when I first saw the initials “W. W. J. D.”, I thought they referred to a country music radio station. I was quite surprised to discover not only that they really stood for “What would Jesus do?” but also that these initials were fast becoming a kind of cultic item in […]
