by Barney | Jan 12, 2015 | Learning Theology, Theology
“If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones.” – C.S. Lewis “Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.” – George...
by Barney | Dec 6, 2014 | Scripture
I want to make an observation about many (not all) of the contemporary controversies surrounding biblical interpretation. I don’t mean historical debates (such as when Paul wrote Galatians or whether John the Baptist was Essene), I mean the application end: what to...
by Barney | Oct 4, 2014 | Culture, Philosophy, Theology
“You will have power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you” – Acts 1:8 In a short space of time, the early Christians went from being a relational, organic, life-filled community to a powerful and corrupt institutional structure which would do anything to achieve its...
by Barney | Sep 1, 2014 | Scripture, Theology
Evangelical identity, which has always relied on the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture, is being threatened by the growing rift in opinions about same-sex marriage. This may force evangelicals to discover something about hermeneutics which their brothers and...
by Barney | Jul 31, 2014 | Philosophy, Scripture, Theology
Dieser Artikel auf Deutch This article in Japanese “The greatest problem with the early church was that it was influenced by Greek ways of thinking which have nothing to do with the Bible.” The above quote expresses a view known as the “Hellenization thesis,” made...
