by Barney | May 19, 2015 | Theology
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong and it has been terrible for us in sexual terms” declared Diarmaid MacCulloch in an interview about his three-part BBC series, “Sex and the Church.” The series is an attempt to prove his thesis by examining the...
by Barney | Feb 12, 2015 | Culture, Theology
A Book Review It all lies in the fact that men think there are circumstances in which one may deal with human beings without love; and there are no such circumstances. One may deal with things without love; one may cut down trees, make bricks, hammer iron without...
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...
by Barney | Jun 30, 2014 | Scripture, Theology
One of the longest standing problems in Christian history is the question of how to understand/use the Old Testament. Is it nothing more than an interesting, but irrelevant, account of how God used to relate to his people? Or is it so inspired that the New Testament...
