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Southern Baptists Turn Green (or at least Go Green)
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Ben Witherington
In a move that will surprise many, various Southern Baptist leaders have decided to support a declaration on climate change. This involves some 44 significant Baptist leaders and it marks a departure from the position on global warming adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention itself. Here is the article in the NY Times— http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/10baptist.html?th&emc=th These…
Things We Did Not Learn in Seminary
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Ben Witherington
My former student Omar, has sent me the preaching sample of the week. In this sermon clip from You Tube you will learn: 1) how for a Christian male to be a real man; 2) what’s wrong with America and even its President; 3) why the’ ole King James’ is still the best; 4) what’s…
Earl Doherty’s ‘The Jesus Puzzle’ — An Exercise in Mythmaking
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Ben Witherington
In a post-modern post-Christian age where atheism has gained some new life, it was to be expected that there would be some persons who thought it might now be possible to make Jesus and Christianity vanish without a trace through a certain kind of prestidigitation, or at least an enormous amount of revisionist history writing.…
The New Perspective on Paul and the Law– Reviewed
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Ben Witherington
The following is a brief section from my forthcoming two volume work on NT Theology and Ethics, entitled The Indelible Image. This portion of course is a subsection of the chapter on Paul.———————— The ‘New Perspective’ on Paul There is something of a small war going on in Pauline circles on the issue of ‘the…
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