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By Edwin Yamauchi One hears conflicting estimates of Jesus. Christians believe he is incomparable, without a peer, but they are often quite ignorant of the lives of other great spiritual leaders. On the other hand, some people speak of Jesus, Buddha, Socrates and others without acknowledging any differences. Walter Lippmann, for example, remarks, “There is no [...] By Mario Seiglie As discussed in recent issues of The Good News, archaeologists have made many discoveries that verify and illuminate our understanding of the four Gospels. After the Gospels, the next section in the New Testament we will survey is the books of the Acts of the Apostles, or simply Acts. The book [...]
By John Mark Reynolds When reading old books, it is easy to display a chronological snobbery, as C.S. Lewis called it. The chronological snob is to time what the ethnocentric person is to ethnicity. His chronocentrism assumes that everyone in the past should know everything he knows or agree with all his assumptions. When [...]
By Mary Ann Jeffreys “I was years and years upon the brink of hell – I mean in my own feeling. I was unhappy, I was desponding, I was despairing. I dreamed of hell. My life was full of sorrow and wretchedness, believing that I was lost.” Charles Spurgeon, the most [...]
John the Apostle is thought to have been a disciple of John the Baptist before meeting Jesus (John 1:35). Although John is not specifically identified as a disciple of John the Baptist, his habit of not naming himself is set in the context of John 1:35-40 when he cites only Andrew. This is seen [...] By J.P. Holding The works of the first-century historian Josephus have been held in high regard by Christians throughout history. The early church, Schreckenberg writes, saw Josephus as “a kind of fifth gospel” and a “little Bible” [Feld.JosJes, 317], because his works “appeared to Christian theologians to be a commentary or a historic appendix [...]
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Book review by John Jay Hughes As they look down from the heights of our culture, writers at the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, CBS’s 60 Minutes, and much of the professoriat on both sides of the Atlantic contemplate the sorry role of the Catholic Church in 20th-century history. In [...]
By William F. McInerny Preeminent theologian Hans Kung presents what he calls “a simple introduction to Christian theology” in his newest publication. This “simple introduction” is also novel in its embodiment of a select twofold emphasis. Readers are introduced to Christian theology via seven persons identified as (1) paradig-matic figures of entire eras who [...]
Review by Kellia The dean of evangelical biblical scholars did a great service when he decided to get this work out of his system (Preface), since he made a very successful attempt indeed to communicate the state of knowledge on this tricky and sensitive subject. This book stands my Criterion: If I only [...] By Craig Blomberg, Ph.D. Part 4 This video lasts 9:15 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGflQJT288] |
  
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