Mainline Decline “One of our finest hours was when our Presbyterian Publishing House, Westminster Press, published books on the death of God theology.” Thus spoke the 1996-97 moderator of the PCUSA, as he accepted the 1996 Alumnus of the Year award from Chicago Divinity School. This “finest hour” helped promote a sustained and growing rejection […]
26: The Gospel of Judas: Two Levels of Scam
Level One: A Los Angeles Times editorial (April 13, 2006) reports that Frieda Nussberger–Tchacos, the Swiss antiquities dealer who delivered the recently–discovered Gospel of Judas to the National Geographic, is a convicted looter. Tchacos presents herself in semi–angelic prose as someone “chosen by Judas to rehabilitate him.” Judas doubtless rehabilitated her, to the tune of […]
The Paganization of New Testament Studies
INTRODUCTION Given the institutions where I have taught during my professional life, it is appropriate to begin my overview of the Paganization/Gnosticization [2] of New Testament Studies with a quote from J. Gresham Machen, speaking of the inroads of Liberalism into the American church at the beginning of the last century: “The truth is that […]
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Impeachment: Quid Pro-Choice
by Dr. Peter Jones | December 24, 2019This is the essence of “identity politics”— the naked declaration of independence from our Creator. We cannot create a sense of human dignity without appealing to the Creator of human life.
The Mind of Christ
by Joshua Gielow | October 18, 2019We are living in a time of fake news, where people seem to have lost their ability to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. You could describe this as a time of monist confusion, where there are no real distinctions because the general worldview is now that everything is one, so good […]