Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (Part 3)–Concluding Remarks
We now come to my final post in this short series involving my look at the book, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?, that covers a debate on that t...
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Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (Part 2)–A Debate Between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans: Responses and Some Analysis
We now come to Part 2 of my short blog series on the book Can we Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? that is essentially the transcript of a debate between...
Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (A New Series/Book Analysis of the Debate Between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans)
Just recently, a new book came out entitled, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? It is essentially the transcript from a debate between Bart Ehrman ...
“Goodbye Jesus”–A Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 5: The Heart of the Problem…for Ex-Evangelicals and American Evangelicalism Alike)
Here in this final installment of my look at Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I want to discuss what I feel is the deeper, underlying issue, not only to what S...
“Goodbye Jesus”–A Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 4: Rationalizing His Newfound Unbelief…and Appeal to Ehrman’s Authority as the High Priest of Ex-Evangelical Rationalism)
Here in Part 4 of my analysis of Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I’m going to delve into a curious phenomenon I have noticed with many former Christians, part...
“Goodbye Jesus”–A Book Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 3: Church Rivalries and Marital Failures)
We now come to Part 3 of my analysis of Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus—a book in which he recounts his life story into Christianity, into the ministry, and ev...
“Goodbye Jesus”–A Book Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 2: Child of an Alcoholic; Obsession with Church Attendance)
Last week I began a short blog series in which I discuss Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, in which he tells his life story as an Evangelical pastor, and his ev...
“Goodbye, Jesus”–A Book Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 1: An Overview of the Book)
Tim Sledge is a former Baptist minister who, for about 40 years, had been a pastor and Christian writer. As the title of his book, suggests, he no longer is a C...
“A Biblical History of Israel” by Iain Provan: An Extended Book Analysis–Part 12: In Praise of Critical Thought (…and the gloves come off)
At the end of the 2nd edition of Provan, Long, and Longman’s book, A Biblical History of Israel (BHI), they have added an appendix entitled, “In Praise of Criti...
“A Biblical History of Israel” by Iain Provan: An Extended Book Analysis–Part 11: The Exilic and Post-Exilic Period
Chapter 11 of Provan, Long, and Longman’s book, A Biblical History of Israel, takes us from the Fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC all the way through to the Post-Exil...