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All Blog Posts With Tag: Fundamentalism
The Christian Fundamentalist (June 6, 2019)
The Ridiculous Practice of Biblical Harmonization (feat. James Barr) (January 15, 2019)
Harmonization is not wrong in itself, and it is appropriate to harmonize the myriad of witnesses in the bible in order to understand their collective human witness to the one and only Jesus Christ. However, there is a ridiculous form of biblical harmonization that is practiced by people who are […]
Karl Barth’s praise of G. C. Berkouwer and apology to the Calvinists (January 8, 2018)
Among Karl Barth's greatest enemies were the American and Dutch Calvinists (especially the American Dutch Calvinist Cornelius Van Til and his minions). These 20th century Calvinists were different than the neo-Calvinism popular today because they proudly called themselves Fundamentalists and wished to regress the church and theology back to 16th century […]
A Fundamentalist is an Evangelical who is angry about something — George Marsden (November 22, 2017)
Are you an Evangelical who is angry about something? Then you might be a fundamentalist! Dr. George Marsden is an expert on the history of American Evangelicalism and in his book Fundamentalism and American Culture he defines a "fundamentalist" as "an evangelical who is angry about something." Who is a fundamentalist? […]
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
#7. Biblical Inerrancy's Myth-Making Machine, Unveiled
Proponents of Biblical Inerrancy perpetuate a myth that the Church has always declared the Bible to be error-free, including minute details of science and history. History tells us a different story, […]
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James Barr asks “Was Karl Barth a Fundamentalist?” (January 19, 2017)
James Barr interrogates Karl Barth in his book "Fundamentalism" to determine if Barth is a fundamentalist after all. Barr tells a story about a meeting between John Baillie and Karl Barth, in which Baillie strives to get Barth to confess that Methuselah did not really live 969 years as it […]
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John Calvin’s Spectacles of Scripture (January 5, 2017)
John Calvin's Biblical Eyeglasses
The Reformed theologian, John Calvin, said the Bible is like eyeglasses that allow us to see God and without the spectacles of Scripture, we are like an old person with blurry vision and unable to see God or or see God in Creation. In the event of reading the Scriptures […]
The Futility of Debating a Biblicist (October 27, 2016)
G.C. Berkouwer: Inerrancy is Foreign to the World of Scripture (January 17, 2015)
Ptolemy's World Map from Geographia, c. 150 c.e. (source: wikipedia)
Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer (1903-1996) was a famous Dutch Reformed Theologian who worked within the same illustrious Dutch Calvinist tradition as Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck. In G.C. Berkouwer's Studies in Dogmatics: Holy Scripture, is a famous argument against inerracy that I've quoted in toto […]
How to Counteract Biblical Fundamentalism (featuring Raymond E. Brown) (December 27, 2014)
~ Updated and Revised: February 28th, 2019 ~
How do we respond to fundamentalism? Trying to change the mind of a fundamentalist is a formidable task. One of my favorite theologians, Raymond E. Brown has the answer! In his short, accessible and excellent book, 101 Questions and Answers on the Bible, he outlines […]
