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Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
Pietism supposes that, in Mark 13, Jesus was predicting his own coming at the end of time, a prediction still to be fulfilled; Weiss, Schweitzer, and their successors have thought that Jesus here predicted the imminent end of the world, and that he was proved wrong. I suggest that both traditions, the old pietist one and the more recent scholarly o
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
And these new views of the importance of the body and the material world laid the foundation for the rise of modern science. The material world was no longer understood as an illusion or simply something to be spiritually transcended. Nor was it just an incomprehensible mystery but, according to the Bible, it was the creation of a personal, rationa
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Behind the attempts of Reimarus and others to suggest that the “kingdom of God” in the teaching of Jesus referred either to a violent military revolution or to the “end of the world” there lay the determination to make sure that God was kept out of real life.