From Evangelical Action, February-March 2012. In February 1555 Bishop John Hooper was burned at the stake. His wife had escaped to the continent, and from prison he had written to her, and recommended that she read, among other things, Psalm 77. It is a Psalm designed for the Christian in dark days. The Psalmist is Asaph, […]
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Revelational Potpourri: The Bible Versus Multi-Sourced Revelation
From Evangelical Action, April-May 2012. I was recently asked by a friend to comment on the Bible as the only source of divine revelation for Christianity. Put another way, are there differing sources — written or otherwise — of revelation that Christians have myopically overlooked? Such a question is not uncommon in our postmodern age: an […]
The Distant God: Does History Repeat?
From Evangelical Action, June-July 2012. A Short History As a phenomenon in church history, Deism was a movement particularly of the late seventeenth through the eighteenth century. It was a movement that taught a creator god who made the world to run according to laws and endowed man with certain moral values. After having done […]