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[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
8. The Protestant Reformers (John Calvin, Martin Luther, Zwingli, etc.) would not and did not affirm Biblical Inerrancy.
Introduction
The Protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, et al. have written isolated statements that are perennially […]
How Jürgen Moltmann Reads and Interprets the Bible (January 31, 2017)
How do we know that we understand the Bible when we read it? The word "hermeneutics" refers to the way we read and interpret the Bible, and if our hermeneutical approach is wrong, then we will not understand the Bible. Often disagreements in theology come down to people reading the […]
Karl Barth on The Church in Excess and Defect (December 15, 2016)
Church in Excess and Defect
St. Augustine said that the Church is a whore, but she is our mother. In time, we all experience the inadequacies of the Church, and this is especially true for Protestants, because few people remain members of the same church for the duration of their lives. […]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #3 Inerrancy Censors the Bible’s Capacity for Error (October 13, 2016)
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #3. Inerrancy Censors the Bible's Capacity for Error.
Introduction
What harm is there in believing that the Bible might be Inerrant? In most cases, Biblical Inerrancy is a relatively harmless foreign praxis applied to […]
Welcome sign to Hell, Michigan (source: wikipedia)
The doctrine of predestination has undergone substantial renovation and development over time. Augustine and Thomas considered election and reprobation as two separate dogmas, where the active election of men from the mass of perdition was a distinctive act that is separate from the act […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg on the History of Christology (June 9, 2014)
Wolfhart Pannenberg speaking at a CDU conference in Bonn, 1983
In Wolfhart Pannenberg's famous Christology book, Jesus: God and Man, he provided an impressive outline of how Christology as a dogma had developed historically. All Christian doctrines develop over time as the Church revises its talk about God, as Karl Barth would […]
John Calvin allowed for errors in the original autographs of the Holy Scriptures. Biblicist proponents of Evangelical literal theories of inspiration have advanced the myth that Calvin only allowed for scribal transmission errors in the extant Scriptures but not in the original autographs. The truth is that Calvin and the Magisterial Reformers (including […]
John Calvin on Nicolaus Copernicus and Heliocentrism (May 21, 2014)
Geocentric Model of the 16th Century
John Calvin's reputation has suffered tremulously due to the following quotation that was wrongly attributed to him by famous men such as Bertrand Russell, Thomas Kuhn and many others, which Calvin had never uttered:
"Who,' asks Calvin, 'will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that […]
Jürgen Moltmann On Why He Is Praying For The Dead (January 16, 2014)
Jurgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann discusses Calvin and Luther's positions on prayers for the dead, and explains why he prays for the dead. This audio clip is from the fifth session of the 2009 Conversation with Jurgen Moltmann by the Emergent Village. To listen to all the audio for that conference, see my […]
John Calvin on the Roman Catholic Objections to the Reformation (February 1, 2013)
John Eck's Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutheranos (1526, 1536)
John Calvin lists what he believes to be the basic objections the Roman Catholic Church held against the Reformation in the 16th Century.
"They call it "new" and "of recent birth."
"They reproach it as "doubtful and uncertain"
"They inquire whether it is right for […]
