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Clear searchThe Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
I recommend Bede because he brings the early English Church out of abstraction and fills it with people, places, journeys, decisions, failures, and acts of courage. His history shows how the gospel crossed cultures and kingdoms, how po…
View recommendation →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…the Spirit is now a true or spiritual Jew. Since Christians possess that inward work, the Church has become spiritual Israel. That reading takes Paul's contrast seriously. Outward privilege without inward reality cannot please God. Circumcision cannot protect a lawbreaker from ju…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…way. The Latin Vulgate rendered the expression rapiemur, from the verb which supplied the English word rapture. The label is not being used to import a foreign event into Scripture. It names Paul's catching up. The proper test is therefore not whether an English theological term…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…lations render the final words "in what they have" or "written down with them". Whichever English wording is preferred, the verse appeals to Scriptures connected with the communities being addressed, not merely to books which had disappeared centuries earlier. Surah 10:94 tells M…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…them. That is not said to mock the converts. Their confusion also belongs at the feet of churches which entertained but did not teach, gathered crowds but did not catechise, and told people to believe without preparing them to explain what they believed. If someone leaves Christ…
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