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Clear searchSources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ur Gospels. Yet recognisable forms of them appear within the religious narrative world of late antiquity. The superficial accusation is easy: Muhammad heard old legends and copied them into the Qur’an. Historical evidence rarely permits such simplicity. We do not possess a list o…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…her. I stand outside because I love much of what I find within her, yet cannot call every later development apostolic. There is a particular accusation made against evangelical Christianity that I feel more deeply than might be expected. We are told that we are rootless individua…
Read article →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
…guardian could rewrite every copy. Its books were read publicly, copied repeatedly, translated into other languages, quoted by Christian writers, and carried across a wide geographical area. That history did produce differences between manuscripts. It also produced the evidence…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…cent to earth and proposed an interval between the events. His scheme is not identical to later dispensationalism. His interval was approximately three and a half years rather than the standard seven, and his larger construction contains its own peculiarities. Those differences m…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…eparate deity from the southern wilderness—perhaps Midian, Edom or Seir—whose worship was later brought into Israel. Over time, the two gods were identified with one another. Yahweh absorbed El’s titles, took his position at the head of the divine council and eventually emerged a…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…blindness was partial and temporary; the nation's gifts and calling remained irrevocable. Later supersessionism therefore cannot be projected backwards as though it were the only possible meaning of apostolic Christianity. Its development must be explained historically. The secon…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…clude knowledge and predictions beyond his natural reach. Its structure exhibits an order later readers continue to discover. God providentially protected it. Its effects bear witness to its power. Taken together, Muslims argue, divine revelation provides the best explanation. Th…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…Isaac, Daniel’s cut-off Messiah and the Qur’an’s relationship to the religious stories of late antiquity. The individual questions matter. But now we must ask what they mean together. A case is not decided by leaving every item of evidence in a separate room. The witnesses must b…
Read article →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
…atter. His closeness to the second century makes his testimony historically valuable, but antiquity does not make every interpretation correct. When he speaks of the catholic Church, the word means the universal or whole Church confessing the apostolic faith; it must not be treat…
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