How lower criticism fathered higher criticism from Erasmus, Newton and the Unitarians and modern critics.
From Sacred Text to Religious Text by Theodore P Letis
https://t.co/EXD2MXlxcd
"He remains utterly inscrutable, not because of the mysterious depths of his psyche but because he seems to be governed entirely by impulse and gives no evidence whatsoever of an inner life."
Michael Hanby on Trump.
“ Sacraments are never administered to begin or work grace; you suppose children to believe before you baptise them.“
Thomas Goodwin
Sermons on Ephesians. XV p232
How some of our categories can distract from Scripture’s redemptive historical purpose.
Blinded by the Truth: How Our Theology Obscures Biblical History by Mark Horne
https://t.co/uXD3kV8BiY
A challenge to the disenchantment thesis. Worthwhile and important in the light of the current turn towards spirituality, magic, UFOs, etc.
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
https://t.co/nEEBFZRFtW
A collective biography of four philosophers who didn’t meet, but developed their ideas around the beginning of WW2. A good read. The Visionaries : Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Eilenberger Wolfram
https://t.co/WsYazlfmrh