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His understanding of original sin was rather like that of the Greek fathers, in that he denied that it involved any inheritance of aboriginal guilt.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
This is creative, Christian interpretation that uses the text of the Bible as something with which I “think theologically.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
He rejects, rightly, any idea that what Jesus found amiss with Pharisaic teaching was ‘pettifogging legalism’. He offers, instead, a category which I would myself, in broad terms, endorse: Jesus was announcing ‘restoration eschatology’.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
When we add this element to the argument advanced above, it appears that there were very good reasons why Pharisees, and perhaps others, might take an unusually close interest in Jesus and his followers, to see if they could detect any tell-tale signs of the disloyalty they already suspected.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
One could see that the older theological notion of an inherent, innate “knowledge of God” is a theological version of a scientific proposal that human beings are, by nature, a religion-making or a god-making species.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
“Having faith” in Christ is not merely believing that he exists or even believing certain propositions about his nature; rather it is more than anything trusting him with one’s life.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
In a postmodern church we don’t really need a category of “tradition” separate from scripture as long as scripture is interpreted to reflect the sedimentation of Christian experience of the past.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
My guess would be that we have two versions of the great supper parable, two versions of the talents/pounds parable, and two versions of the beatitudes, not because one is adapted from the other, or both from a single common written source, but because these are two out of a dozen or more possible variations that, had one been in Galilee with a tap
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In not one case do we hear of any group, after the death of its leader, claiming that he was in any sense alive again, and that therefore Israel’s expectation had in some strange way actually come true. History therefore spotlights the question: what happened to make Jesus’ followers, from the very start, articulate such a claim and work out its im
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