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Clear searchHow Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
Your Party Is Not Your Church How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal Political parties do not merely ask for our votes. Increasingly, they offer an entire identity. Each side supplies its own accou…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…uences of rhetoric. Words developed during religious competition could acquire social and political force when Christians held authority. These influences help explain the history. They do not decide whether its exegesis was correct. Anti-Judaism and antisemitism should be distin…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…not explain the passage away. Let the strongest Muslim chronology stand. A successful geopolitical prediction is evidence to be weighed. But it does not follow that every claim in the Qur'an is therefore revealed by God. Human beings sometimes make accurate predictions. The evid…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…force is cumulative: the Gospels continually place their claims within a coherent social, political, geographical and religious environment. They also preserve material which Christian propagandists might have preferred to simplify. The disciples misunderstand Jesus, compete for…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…“primary endeavour” was that unity of faith and unanimity of worship might be preserved. Political stability and sincere religious concern need not be mutually exclusive motives. Neither motive tells us whether the bishops' theological conclusion was true. That must be tested fr…
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