The Problem of the Minimalist Definition

Yesterday someone sent a link to an essay posted on a seminary website. In the comments that follow I am not speaking to the seminary per se but I do want to challenge the implied premise of the essay. The fundamental question . . . Continue reading →

An Emergent "Translation" of the NT? Yikes!

Thanks to WHI producer extraordinaire Shane Rosenthal for giving us a heads up via email. Who says that the Emergent movement is harmless? If there were any doubts that it’s utterly wedded to religious subjectivism and to the worst strains of pietism, . . . Continue reading →

Is the "Gospel in the Stars"? or the Distinction Between Nature and Grace

In 1882 the Lutheran minister Joseph A. Seiss (1823-1904) published the provocative volume, The Gospel in the Stars, Or, Prímeval Astronomy (Philadelphia: E. Claxton & company, 1882). Evidently it found an audience and it has been reprinted as recently as the early . . . Continue reading →