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 […]
The Davinci Code: Another Gospel
Dan Brown’s private religion, gnosticism, gets a Hollywood boost. Peter Jones talks to Peter Hastie 4 • AUSTRALIAN PRESBYTERIAN July 2006 Dr. Peter Jones is the director of Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet and an adjunct Professor of New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, California. Dr Jones holds a MDiv from Gordon–Conwell Seminary, […]
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 […]
The Cosmic Christ
A version of this material has appeared in The Conspiracy to Silence the Son of God, edited by Tal Brooke of Spiritual Counterfeits Project and published by Harvest House. A New Christ Orthodox Christology: One Person in Two Natures Those raised on Disney, MTV, and Monday night football may find history a drag. Only nerds […]
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by Joshua Gielow | May 13, 2022Andrea Williams, from Christian Concern, is the guest on today’s podcast. We discuss law and personhood and how this is impacting the public square. Andrea Williams is one of the featured speakers at our upcoming online symposium, “Stolen Identity: The Theft of the Binary in Contemporary Society.”You can listen to the audio here. Mark your calendar […]
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by Joshua Gielow | May 12, 2022Mark your calendar for September 26th through the 30th, TruthXChange’s 2022 Symposium in the month of September: “Stolen Identity: The Theft of the Binary in Contemporary Society.” “What are your pronouns?” “How do you identify?” These current cultural questions are a restatement of one of the oldest questions of the human race: “Who am I?” Today’s […]
Black Fathers and White Fathers
by Dr. Peter Jones | April 22, 2022Part of Critical Race Theory is the assumption that racism is inevitably related to white male heterosexuality and the oppressive patriarchy that occurs under the selfish rule of powerful father-figures. Thus, the contemporary version of a “man” in U.S. society is “hyper-masculine, straight, and white…the wealthy white male property owner.” So “…we must begin to […]
Still Time to Care About the Whole Gospel
by Dr. Peter Jones | March 2, 2022In his book Still Time to Care (2021), Greg Johnson, an intelligent Christian thinker, seeks to make a valid case for allowing someone who, like himself, is openly same-sex attracted, gay, and celibate to be an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. Johnson adopts a profoundly orthodox and well exegetically supported view of biblical sexuality. […]