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What Does the Bible Teach Us About Urgent Moral Controversies?

Jul 18

What Does the Bible Teach Us About Urgent Moral Controversies?

The Bible is blamed for virtually every evil under the sun. Here is a summary of the rap sheet: Slavery and racism began with Noah’s...

Craig S. Keener, PhD.

Jul 7

Are Paul's Views Sexist?

Paul gets a bad rap today, and often for reasons opposite to those he got one in the first century. In his own culture and addressing...

Is Our Historical Evidence Powerful Enough to Suggest that the Gospel Miracles Occurred?

Craig S. Keener, PhD.

Apr 30

Is Our Historical Evidence Powerful Enough to Suggest that the Gospel Miracles Occurred?

Most historical Jesus scholars today, whether or not they believe in God, believe that Jesus’s contemporaries experienced him as a healer...

Did God Factor into the Philosophies of Some of the Greatest Minds in History?

Tim Pickavance, Ph.D.

Mar 7

Did God Factor into the Philosophies of Some of the Greatest Minds in History?

Intellectual history cannot be told or understood without the idea of God. Badarayana, Confucius, Plato and Aristotle, Jesus, Marcus...

Is Christianity a Western or White Religion?

Todd M. Johnson, Ph.D.

Feb 21

Is Christianity a Western or White Religion?

Many people think of Christianity as a Western or White religion. After all, at the time of the Reformation, 92% of all Christians were...

Is it Fair to Think of Christianity as a Western Religion?

Donald Fairbairn, Ph.D.

Jan 20

Is it Fair to Think of Christianity as a Western Religion?

In academic circles and in western society more broadly, there is currently a lot of antipathy toward the western intellectual tradition...

Why think the Gospels are historically reliable?

Craig S. Keener, PhD.

Nov 2, 2021

Why think the Gospels are historically reliable?

Many factors should predispose us to take the Gospels as historically reliable sources for Jesus. First, they take the form of...

Joel Elowsky, Ph.D.

Sep 20, 2021

Who was Athanasius, and why is he a central figure in the history of Christianity?

Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 297-373) was bishop of the see of Alexandria from 328 to his death in 373. He often is referred to by the...

What is the Trinity, and why is it so important to Christians?

Donald Fairbairn, Ph.D.

Sep 6, 2021

What is the Trinity, and why is it so important to Christians?

Many non-Christians, and likely many Christians as well, are baffled by the Christian concept of the Trinity. We wonder how God can be...

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