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Of Glenn Beck and Beards
Last week I blogged here about the recent controversy over evangelical views of TV political commentator and culture warrior Glenn Beck, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
View ArticleDid Joseph Smith Restore Theosis? Part One: The Mormon Doctrine of Exaltation
A recent article in the Mormon newspaper Deseret News (August 3, 2011) by Brigham Young University professor and Mormon apologist Daniel C. Peterson carries the provocative title, “Joseph Smith’s...
View ArticleDid Joseph Smith Restore Theosis? Part Two: The New Testament and Joseph...
This is the second installment in my series responding to Dan Peterson’s recent article, “Joseph Smith’s restoration of ‘theosis’ was miracle, not scandal.” To understand the issues addressed here and...
View ArticleDid Joseph Smith Restore Theosis? Part Three: The Book of Mormon and Joseph...
This is the third installment in my series responding to Dan Peterson’s recent article, “Joseph Smith’s restoration of ‘theosis’ was miracle, not scandal.” If you missed the previous installments, I...
View ArticleDid Joseph Smith Restore Theosis? Part Four: Esoteric Jewish Theology and...
This is the fourth installment in my series responding to Dan Peterson’s recent article, “Joseph Smith’s restoration of ‘theosis’ was miracle, not scandal.” As explained in the first part of this...
View ArticleDid Joseph Smith Restore Theosis? Part Five: Early Church Fathers and Joseph...
This is the fifth (and long overdue) installment in my series responding to Dan Peterson’s recent article, “Joseph Smith’s restoration of ‘theosis’ was miracle, not scandal.” As explained in the first...
View ArticleQuarles Reviews Licona on the Resurrection
Charles L. Quarles of Louisiana College has a lengthy review of Michael R. Licona’s book The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010) in the...
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Is Limiting Marriage to Unions of a Man and a Woman Discrimination?
I’m not a legal scholar or an expert on the issue of same-sex marriage, but I’d like to offer some thoughts I have had on the subject for some time. Specifically, I want to address the complaint that...
View Article14 Evidences for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ—and 14 References
In this article I will summarize, as briefly as possible, fourteen evidences for the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The summaries of each point are deliberately brief and undeveloped....
View ArticleJohn Shelby Spong on the Gospel of John
John Shelby Spong’s newest book, The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic, was released this week. For those unfamiliar with Spong, he is a retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the...
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How Not to Debate a Christian Apologist
In an article on Huffington Post (naturally) entitled How to Debate a Christian Apologist, atheist Victor Stenger explains why non-Christians usually do so badly in debates with Christians and then...
View ArticleShawn McCraney on the Linear Thinking of His Theological Critics
Shawn McCraney is a former Mormon who became a “born-again” Christian and eventually left Mormonism, received some ministry training through Calvary Chapel, and launched his own ministry in Salt Lake...
View ArticleHow Jesus Became God—or How God Became Jesus? A Review of Bart Ehrman’s New...
Bart Ehrman’s book How Jesus Became God, released just yesterday, is the most recent example of a scholarly tradition of books with similar titles offering to explain how Christianity turned a simple...
View ArticleDid Joseph Smith Restore Theosis? Part Two: The New Testament and Joseph...
This is the second installment in my series responding to Dan Peterson’s recent article, “Joseph Smith’s restoration of ‘theosis’ was miracle, not scandal.” To understand the issues addressed here and...
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