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Clear searchAugustine of Hippo · Spiritual autobiography and prayer · c. 397–400
…conversion. Augustine's later books move from autobiography into difficult reflection on memory, time, creation, and biblical interpretation, and readers will not agree with every conclusion. Read the work prayerfully but discerningly, receiving its insight while testing its the…
View recommendation →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…nces deserve humane attention and careful investigation. They may tell us something about memory, consciousness, the dying process and the spiritual seriousness of death. But no report from an operating theatre, however vivid, can sit in judgement upon the Son of God. Christ and…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…began engaging in religious forums online. I was debating a humanist who appealed, if my memory serves me correctly, to Richard Elliott Friedman. Friedman was not the founder of the Documentary Hypothesis, although his work brought a modern version of it before a large popular a…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…the apostolic period. Second, the alternative he answers is not presented as a historical memory preserved by witnesses who saw Jesus escape. It is a doctrinal claim associated with a view of Christ which weakened or denied His real bodily suffering. The existence of an early den…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…of His flesh and blood. These features understandably call the Lord’s Supper to Christian memory. John 6 may therefore illuminate the spiritual reality proclaimed in Communion. The Supper announces Christ’s death; believers receive bread and wine in remembrance of His body given…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…. Human beings produce extraordinary poetry, music, mathematics, architecture and acts of memory. A rare achievement does not become supernatural merely because most people could not reproduce it. If a feature of the Qur'an is offered as evidence of divine authorship, at least fo…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…nonical evangelists omitted the event, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas preserved a corrupted memory of it, and the Qur’an later confirmed the truth. That explanation is possible. Omission by the Gospels does not prove that an event never occurred. But possibility is not historical e…
Read article →The Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
…s could be. It is both a major historical source and a vivid encounter with the Christian memory of early England. Bede is a primary witness with theological, ecclesiastical, regional, and political commitments; he is not a detached modern historian. His miracle accounts, speeche…
View recommendation →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…begun in the Messiah. Neither requires us to reduce the remaining promise to an exhausted memory. Isaiah directs our eyes towards the King: “Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty…” — Isaiah 33:17 THE NEAR WAS REAL. THE FAR IS STILL COMING.
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ney can be tested against geography. Named people and families place events within public memory. The Qur’an supplies almost none of this concerning Jesus. It names no ruler connected with His ministry, no disciple, no town, no journey and no feast. It gives no sustained chronolo…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…of its redemption. Because He lives, the believer’s future is not to become a disembodied memory, but to be raised incorruptible and fashioned like unto His glorious body. A descent unlike every myth Ancient critics could point to stories of gods appearing in human form. Modern c…
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