The rule of faith for Protestants is sola Scriptura. This belief holds that only Scripture is a final, infallible authority for the Christian: thus excluding the Church and Sacred Tradition as equally ...
"Mormons embrace a broader concept of Scripture, believing that nothing in the Bible suggests that only these two works (the Old and New Testaments) constitute a complete canon of Scripture," Terryl ...
I saw your article on Five Myths about Seven Books and wonder if you think that the question posed to Jesus in Mark 12 about the resurrection is rooted in Tobit 3 and confirms that this book is part ...
All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2 ...
Constantine’s act of “calling himself a Christian and pouring in that flood of wealth and power on the church,” John Wesley charged in 1787, “was productive of more evil to the church than all the ten ...
The Song of Songs is a love poem, sensually specific. It doesn’t mention God. The Book of Esther, writes Robert Alter, is a “kind of carnivalesque political fairy tale” -- again, no mention of the ...
When Westminster John Knox Press launched the Interpre­tation commentary series in 1982 with Walter Brueggemann's provocative volume on the book of Genesis, readers encountered the strange new world ...
Why Christians read the diversity within the canon as a unified whole. Well over a decade ago, I was doing postgraduate work at the University of St. Andrews and the place was abuzz with exciting news ...
A unique spiritual guide for Christians that blends Scripture and personal revelation is the focus of "I Am: the First and the Last" by Delon Jackson. In this intimate look at the wonders and ...
A frequent criticism of evangelicalism is that it is obscurantist. An obscurantist is one who binders knowledge, or actively resists its progress. In religion it refers to those who oppose the ...