Crucifixion of the Warrior God, by Gregory A. Boyd – Review Part 4 (on Joshua)
[This is pt 4 of a 4 part review. See here for […]
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The Prophetic Critique of Sacrifice
Critique of Sacrifice… There’s a story I’ve often heard told about Old […]
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A Time for Minor Chords (Part II): Protest at the Divine Court
Time to Protest? In my previous post I discussed the continued lack […]
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Kristallnacht and the Loss of the Old Testament
Von Rad foresaw the dangerous consequences of the Church cutting itself off from deep engagement with the Old Testament. Already in 1935 he remarked that ‘the links of the churches with Old Testament scholarship have been almost completely broken for more than one generation’…
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Is There Only One God? Old Testament Reflections
A core tenet of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths is the claim that there is only one God, not that there used to be lots of gods until Yahweh emerged victorious.
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Joshua and Violence (Part 5): Show them No Mercy
In his 2003 essay on Joshua in the book Show Them No Mercy, Tremper Longman III draws an enlightening yet disturbing comparison between the extremist ideology of Osama bin Laden and that expressed in the herem (total) texts of Deuteronomy and Joshua…
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How to Burn Down Your House
(on fixing the problems of violence and wrath in the Bible) When […]
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Advent and the Incarnational God
The Incarnation… The incarnation forms the climactic turning point of sacred history. […]
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Love for Enemies in the Old Testament
The most prominent verses cited as evidence are Jesus’ ‘you have heard it said … but I tell you’ statements, especially His statements about enemies.
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