Exploring the origins of the New Testament canon and other biblical and theological issues
One of my favorite childhood memories is watching the movie Star Wars in the theater in 1977. I (along with an entire nation) was awestruck. Nothing like that had ever been done before. We were all sucked into a new world of spaceships, light … [Continue reading]
As Romans 7 reminds us, even believers like the apostle Paul continue to struggle with sin in this life. Progress in holiness is really possible by God's wonderful grace (see prior post on that issue here), but we will never be fully rid of sin … [Continue reading]
I've spent the last week or so diving deeply (again) into the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. The Apostolic Fathers are an informal collection of early Christian writings, roughly 95-150 AD, which include books like the Didache, 1 & 2 … [Continue reading]
Note: This is the third installment of a new blog series announced here. Sometimes, even in the academic world, things get said so many times that people assume they are true. And when that happens, no one bothers to look at the … [Continue reading]
I just discovered today that Bart Ehrman has a new blog (which may be old news, but it is new to me). If you are not familiar with Ehrman, he is a NT Prof at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in early Christian texts, former evangelical, outspoken critics … [Continue reading]
