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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Read moreCritique of Sacrifice… There’s a story I’ve often heard told about Old […]
Read moreTime to Protest? In my previous post I discussed the continued lack […]
Read moreVon 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’…
Read moreA 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.
Read moreIn 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…
Read more(on fixing the problems of violence and wrath in the Bible) When […]
Read moreThe Incarnation… The incarnation forms the climactic turning point of sacred history. […]
Read moreThe 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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