By: Jason|28 September, 2011|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Biblical manuscripts . Craig A. Evans . Dead Sea Scrolls . Old Testament . textual criticism
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In a joint project with the Israel Museum, Google have put the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the first time. Considered one of the most significant archaeological finds of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls date from around 250 BC to 68 AD and comprise some 800 documents in many tens of thousands of fragments. The ancient scrolls were first…
Read more »By: Jason|02 August, 2011|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: gospel accounts . new testament . reliability of the NT . Tim McGrew
Professor Tim McGrew shows how incidental details in the gospel accounts confirm the reliability of the New Testament.
Read more »By: Jason|23 March, 2011|Categories: Science & History|Tags: birth of science . Conflict Thesis . Middle Ages . science
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The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution (Regnery Publishing, 2011) is a new book by physicist and historian of science James Hannam that challenges the myth that the Middles Ages were a time of ignorance and superstition. He recently talked to The Daily Caller about the book:
Read more »By: Matt|04 October, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Ethics . Theology|Tags: Capital Punishment . Death Penalty . Mosaic Law . Old Testament
In a three-part series Matt looks at the perplexing question of capital punishment in the Mosaic Law. In Part II Matt looks at the claim of sceptics that the Old Testament supports stoning women who engage in pre-marital sex.
Read more »By: Matt|17 September, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Ethics . Theology|Tags: Capital Punishment . Death Penalty . Mosaic Law . Old Testament
In a three-part series Matt looks at the perplexing question of capital punishment in the Mosaic Law. In Part I Matt challenges an excessively literal reading of penal sanctions in the Old Testament.
Read more »By: Jason|23 February, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Bible . Creation . evolution . Genesis . history . literalism . myth . N.T. Wright . Video
How should we read the first few chapters of Genesis? Myth, history, or something else? Some thoughts on a video by N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham and prominent Biblical scholar.
Read more »By: Stuart|04 December, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Chiristianity . Conflict Thesis . science
W. R. Miller has complied a fine list of quotes and resources to emphasize the point that many of the greatest scientists in history were Christians or had Biblical presuppositions. Also that for most of these, their faith was the driving force behind their discoveries, and true self-sustaining modern science (not just engineering, logic or mathematics) was born within a Christian society.
Read more »By: Stuart|02 December, 2009|Categories: Science & History . Websites|Tags: Columbus . Conflict Thesis . Contra Mundum . Flat-Earth
Matthew Flannagan has published an article on the Flat-Earth Myth in the December issue of Investigate Magazine that is worth reading.
Read more »By: Stuart|28 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Charles Darwin . Conflict Thesis . Evangelicalism . evolution . Fundamentalism . Higher Criticism . John Scopes . Liberalism . Religion . science . Science Historiography
Stuart re-examines the church’s response to the challenge posed by evolution in the nineteenth century.
Read more »By: Stuart|27 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Conflict Thesis . Deism . Enlightenment . Galileo . Jonathan Edwards . Mechanistic . Newton . Newtonian . Paley
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Stuart continues his series on the history of the Conflict Thesis, charting the rise of science after Galileo
Read more »By: Andre Zweck|24 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: C. S. Lewis . Jesus of history . Legend . myth . textual criticism
Andre Zweck asks whether we should treat the gospels as we treat the tales of Thor or Hercules.
Read more »By: Stuart|22 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Catholic Church . Conflict Thesis . Copernicus . Galileo . Geocentric . Heliocentric . Religion . science
Stuart examines the Galileo controversy and asks whether it was a clear case of science vs faith.
Read more »By: Bnonn|17 November, 2009|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Theology|Tags: Bible . Biblical Criticism . Biblical Interpretation . Doctrine . exegesis . inerrancy
Bnonn responds to Glenn Peoples’ critique of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy.
Read more »By: Jason|16 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Charles Darwin . eugenics . evolution . materialism . Naturalism . social darwinism . violence
A recent article at the Times Online suggests a link between Darwin’s theory and violence.
Read more »By: Jason|06 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Christianity . Constantine . Dark Ages . Galileo . Hypatia . Middle Ages . science
Michael Flynn discusses several distortions about the history of Christianity.
Read more »By: Stuart|19 September, 2009|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Theology|Tags: Alister McGrath . Biblical Interpretation . Chuck Missler . Cocceian school . Hermeneutics . Leonard Goppelt . Marshian school . Patrick Fairbairn . Quadriga . Richard Davidson . Typology
McGrath says there is a sense in which the history of Christian theology can be regarded as the history of biblical interpretation. This is particularly true of typological interpretation. Over two thousand years it has been plagued by misuse and misunderstanding. A cloud of uncertainty lingers today over the nature of typology and the hermeneutical principles that might help establish the study of types.
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