Two Testaments, One Soul
Essay by Matthew McAffee What hath Greece to do with Israel? On many levels, modern critical scholarship would be comfortable with a negative response to such a question. They would argue that the Greek ideas of the first century have so influenced the writers of the New Testament that they no longer resemble their Hebrew predecessors theologically. We might say that they have simply moved on with the times. This trajectory poses...
From Eden to Eden
A man created from dust, and a woman created from that same man’s rib: surely we’re more intelligent than to actually believe in this, right? Prior to the nineteenth century, rarely did Christians deny the historicity of this Genesis account. However, it has become quite common to do so in modern Christianity, as many professing believers doubt this seemingly unbelievable account of creation. Some have done so for literary reasons,...
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