Sublime

be dedicated to illustrating how religious beliefs, doctrines, and stories may be analyzed through the lens of modern history but must be analyzed through the lens of Christian theological reasoning.

When a preacher uses a geographical reference to a well in the Old Testament to introduce a discussion of Jesus’ conversation with the woman at the well, no real explanation of the original passage’s place and meaning in redemptive history has occurred. The preacher has only engaged in a bit of word play. The same is true when a preacher leapfrogs

My own position is that the main point in both Galatians 3:28 and the texts that limit the role of women is clear. I am not arguing that every detail in texts like 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 and 1 Timothy 2:11–15 is transparent, but the basic teaching is not hard to understand, nor is the main truth in Galatians 3:28 difficult to grasp.

By replacing the supernatural events of the Bible with existential categorizations, he held that the German churches could preserve their belief in an existential Christ of faith, rather than a historical one as those in the British school affirmed.

Johannes Agricola