"I distrust folks who have ugly things to say about Karl Barth. I like old Barth. He throws the furniture around." Flannery O'Connor One of the Historian Mark Noll's new book about the reception of C. S. Lewis among the first U.S. American readers historicizes the way Lewis has become a beloved figure especially in American evangelicalism. One way to understand this unique moment is to compare it with the reception of Karl Barth's theology.
Though many of these New Testament and other scholars include atheists, agnostics, Jewish authorities, and many skeptics among their numbers, they still agree often that the available data indicate clearly that Jesus was in some sense a healer and exorcist.
Professor Thomas Lindell is a Progressive Christian who incorporates Big Bang cosmology and evolutionary biology into his critical appropriation of Big History. Big History and Progressive Christianity. Any connection?
“War has always been horrible, whether fought with sticks and stones, bows and arrows, swords and spears, muskets and rifles, or bayonets and bombs.” – John