Is 2 Peter compatible with the other scriptures? Ernst Käsemann’s Questions for 2 Peter (August 30, 2018)

Why is 2 Peter included in the biblical canon? It's a question I ask myself often, as are all theologians who study it. Not only is the authorship dubious but it's theological content as well. Ernst Käsemann said that 2 Peter "is perhaps the most dubious writing in the canon" and […]

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David Bentley Hart on why Paul denied the historicity of the Old Testament in 1 Corinthians 10:11 (March 14, 2018)

Evangelicals have not shaken off the shackles of Dispensationalism's aberrant mantra literal wherever possible. The Old Testament doesn't have to be literal historical narratives to be true, and this biblical literalism has spawned endless social controversies (especially in the United States) that are ignited whenever an archeologist says that Israel […]

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Barth’s The Authority of the Word of God (CD I.2 §20.1) (February 22, 2012)

Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics I.2, §20.1 (pages 538-585) on "The Authority of the Word of God" has an extended discussion about the authority of the Holy Scriptures in contrast to the authority of the Church. (You may read it entirety on Google Books here.) The fundamental question is whether the […]

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