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Matthew David Segall • Reflections on my dialogue with Peter Rollins
You can see that many in the emerging church movement have reacted to their view that any church structure is “modern” by not only “flattening” church structure but by a reluctance to move away from affirming those whom the Lord has called, gifted, and authorized to serve as leaders in his church in favor of “leaderless” groups.[120]
Timothy Z. Witmer • Shepherd Leader
“The risen Lord is not the historical Jesus behind the Gospels, but the Christ of the apostolic preaching, of the whole New Testament” (65).
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The Rule is another example of Augustine’s spiritual realism: it is an honest, unsentimental guide for the challenges of living in community, well acquainted with the heart’s crooked bent toward selfishness, snobbery, greed, and exclusion.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
While the Revelation may have ended, the Quran is still a living text and must be treated as such. The notion that historical context should play no role in the interpretation of the Quran—that what applied to Muhammad’s community applies to all Muslim communities for all time—is simply an untenable position in every sense.
Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
In the modern world of theology and biblical studies, scholars began believing that they had to establish first the ancient “meaning” of the text and only after that ask what doctrine, theology, or ethics modern Christians should derive from those ancient texts today.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
unchanged from the original published forms, although I have made a few adjustments - such as adding some additional footnotes and providing section headings in those essays where there were none in the original.In the subtitle I have chosen for this volume, I have characterized my various explorations as being in Kuyper's "line." The exp
... See moreRichard J. Mouw • The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper
For this reason every life of Jesus will necessarily partly reflect the life of its author. There will always be interpretation.
Leonardo Boff • Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time
a theology of ‘the whole Christ’, totus Christus, which allows for a sophisticated account of how we both combine and distinguish between speaking of the Word in its eternal selfhood, the Word incarnate in Jesus and the Word considered as the actively unifying principle of the believing community’s life.