Yinger, The New Perspective on Paul

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Jesus’ death as a propitiation for the sins of Israel This morning’s Good Friday sermon focused on four aspects of the atoning function of the cross: propitiation, redemption, justification, and reconciliation. The sermon had a strong evangelistic slant, and it’s not at all surprising that...
Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christianity: the first question The first question has to do with the overarching storyline of the Bible by which, consciously or otherwise, we make sense of Christian existence (33-45). The traditional plot, McLaren argues, has six elements: 1) humanity begins in the...
Bebbington, Viola, and the redefinition of evangelicalism The British historian David Bebbington is usually credited with devising the standard definition of evangelicalism. I came across it again today in Frank Viola’s compilation of blog posts Beyond Evangelical. Viola very briefly summarizes...