The story we tell of early Christianity tends to focus almost exclusively on the church fathers and their contributions leading to major developments in Christian
For those interested in using the early Christians as guides for their interpretive practices, a good place to start is with the methodological reflections of
The confusion among Christians regarding core doctrines of the faith, recently highlighted in a survey published in Christianity Today, is not simply the result of
“The glory of God is a human being fully alive,” Irenaeus writes. “Practice resurrection” is Wendell Berry’s line. They’re basically the same thing, and it’s
During a conversation with faculty from the Divinity School and the College of Arts and Sciences, a colleague observed that during times of social anxiety
I sometimes find what Scripture says to be puzzling. I doubt that I am alone. Yet, at other times and perhaps even more often, I
Contrary to Luther and his many heirs, the biblical gospel is not “justification by faith.” Nor is the gospel the Roman Road. It is not
There are many false gospels, but justification by faith—the hallmark of the Protestant Reformation—might prove to be the most surprising false gospel of all. Let’s
A Little History It was three decades ago that I began teaching Asian Christianity to Asians in Asia. I had not even finished my PhD,
Seminary preparation for a preaching ministry hopefully includes an over-stuffed file of classroom-delivered and critiqued sermons. But in a real-life setting of the church, the