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Clark Pinnock was a leading evangelical theologian who died in 2010. I followed his career, learned from him through his books and articles, and finally got to know him personally in the 1990s. When I first read him he was a strong inerrantist and Calvinist. But he was a good writer and apologist for the […]

Here I continue my series, recently begun, of telling my memories and secrets of the American Evangelical Movement that began with the founding of the National Association of Evangelicals in the 1940s. These are my own memories and secrets I have kept. When I was in seminary I encountered many what I would now call […]

Here I continue my series, recently begun, of telling my memories and secrets of the American Evangelical Movement that began with the founding of the National Association of Evangelicals in the 1940s. These are my own memories and secrets I have kept. When I was in seminary I encountered many what I would now call […]

Here I begin a series telling my memories of American evangelicalism and what happened in it and to it. Here I am and will be talking about the Evangelical Movement that was born in the early 1940s with the founding of the National Association of Evangelicals and given impetus in the 1950s by the founding […]

People will have their own opinions, of course, but I will not call this my opinion. As a professional theologian with four university degrees in theology (BA, MA, MA, PhD) and forty years studying and teaching theology and twenty-some books published about theology…I will simply say CAPITALISM IS SIN. It is a sinful economic system. […]

People will have their own opinions, of course, but I will not call this my opinion. As a professional theologian with four university degrees in theology (BA, MA, MA, PhD) and forty years studying and teaching theology and twenty-some books published about theology…I will simply say CAPITALISM IS SIN. It is a sinful economic system. […]

I recently here discussed a book by Gary Agee entitled That We May Be One: Practicing Unity in a Divided Church. I agree with Gary’s call for as much unity among Christians as possible. However, I also agree with Martin Luther who said “Peace if possible, but truth at any cost.” I will paraphrase that […]

First, it is important to define terms. By “Christian theology” here I mean the discipline that explores and explains Christian beliefs in a scholarly way—using critical thinking while acknowledging Christian sources as the material of the discipline. Those Christian sources are traditionally recognized as the Christian scriptures (Bible), Christian tradition, and contemporary culture. These traditionally […]

Does Trump think he is Jesus? Well, probably not. But does he think he is a Christ-figure? Probably so. Anyway, that is the impression given by the AI-generated picture he posted on his social media account. In the picture Trump is depicted in Christ-like attire (white and red robe) reaching down and touching the forehead […]

The Almost Completely Unknown Difference that Makes All the Difference (between Christians and Culture and between Christians and Christians) We talk endlessly about differences among Christians: Catholic versus Protestant, Calvinist versus Arminian, liberal versus conservative, neo-fundamentalist versus postconservative, premillennial versus amillennial, pedobaptist versus credobaptist—to name just a few of our favorite divisions. But over the […]