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- Why Did Jesus Tell Mary, "Mine Hour Is Not Yet Come" (John 2:4)?
- Matthew 4:18-22: Why Did They Follow Him?
- Genesis 4:13: Did Cain Repent?
- Were the Maccabees Aaronides?
- Peck Knew More Than Kathy About God: On What Basis?
- Chapters 19, 21-23 of The Stand
- The Seating Arrangement at the Last Supper
- Exodus 22:2-3 and Self-Defense
- Hector Avalos' Critique of Patterns of Evidence (About the Historicity of the Exodus)
- Beale on Revelation 17
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Recent Posts
- The New American on Pro-Life Laws and Keri Lake
- Tucker’s 5/17/2022 Monologue
- The Z Man: The Party’s Over
- David Cole on the Absurdity of WaPo “Fact-Checking” and the Woke “Words Kill” Meme
- FAIR: What You Should Really Know About Ukraine
- NYMAG: Joe Biden’s Big Squeeze
- Book Write-Up: The Alchemy Thief, by R.A. Denny
- Book Write-Ups: The Servant of the Lord and His Servant People; Reformation Commentary on John 13-21; Every Leaf, Line, and Letter
- The New American: Celebrate! Columbus “Divided History” and Deserves to be Defended, Not Upended
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Category Archives: Pluralism
They Should Be Bigger Challenges Than They Are!
Biblical scholar Pete Enns had a post this morning entitled 5 Main Challenges to Staying Christian, and moving forward anyway (part 1). He was basing his list on responses he got to a blog post that he wrote. The five … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Bible, Pluralism, Religion, Television
Tagged bible and science, biblical scholar, christian exclusivism, moral sensibilities, religious jew, television documentaries
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Concluding Circle of Life
I finished James David Audlin’s Circle of Life: Traditional Teachings of Native American Elders. I have three items. 1. On page 336, Audlin states: “The generations to follow us will be unlike us, the Two-Minded Generation…They will not say one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Pluralism, Rabbinics, Religion
Tagged acts of the apostles, native american elders, peter the disciple, Religion
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Frightening, Yet Liberating
On page 231 of Circle of Life: Traditional Teachings of Native American Elders, James David Audlin says the following about a Vietnam veteran’s experience in a Native American lodge: “I was told that one of my teachers took a Vietnam … Continue reading
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Tagged Religion, spirituality
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Can Religious Truth-Claims Be Verified?
I finished Paul Knitter’s No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions. In this post, I’ll use as my starting-point something that Knitter says on page 269: “[Alan Race and I] both agree that religious … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Church, Family, Pluralism, Political Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion
Tagged Dialogue, Eschatology, Globalism, Jung, Paul Knitter, Psychological Welfare, Religious Truth-Claims, Subjectivism
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Seeing the Elephant
For my write-up today on Paul Knitter’s No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions, I’ll comment on points that Knitter makes on page 221 and page 229. On page 221, Knitter states the following: … Continue reading
Knitter on Jesus Being the Only Way
In my latest reading of Paul Knitter’s No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions, I read Chapter IX, “How Is Jesus Unique? Toward a Theocentric Christology”. Knitter’s overall view seems to be that God … Continue reading
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Tagged Christology, Exclusivist, No Other Name, Paul Knitter, Pluralism
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Why Inter-Religious Dialogue?
One question that has appeared more than once in my reading of Paul Knitter’s No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions concerns the purpose of inter-religious dialogue. Knitter wants for it to be … Continue reading
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Is Christian Inclusivism Really Inclusive?
In my latest reading of Paul Knitter’s No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions, I read Chapter VII, “The Catholic Model: Many Ways, One Norm”. Where I was confused in reading Knitter’s discussion of … Continue reading
We’re Flawed, and There Needs to Be Justice
In my latest reading of Paul Knitter’s No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions, I read Chapter VI, “The Mainline Protestant Model: Salvation Only in Christ”. Can the religions of the world be ground-preparation … Continue reading
We’re Right, Even If You Can’t See How…
In my latest reading of Paul Knitter’s No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions, I read Chapter V, “The Conservative Evangelical Model: One True Religion”. Although Knitter recognizes that there are evangelical critiques of … Continue reading
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