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 […]

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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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