This is my promised review of Craig Keener’s book Miracles. It’s actually a two-volume set, but I’m going to call it a book, for simplicity’s sake. Now my verdict is that I don’t know how to express how mixed my feelings are about this book. I’ll start with the good. Modern miracle stories For a [...]
Category Archives: Evangelicals
Are there any interesting defenses of the moral side of religion?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 2, 2012
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So for months now I’ve been talking about working on this book, and I’m finally at the point where I’m feeling good about the progress I’ve made. I’ve got a draft of one chapter and partial drafts of seven other chapters. It’s not a full draft of the book, but I’ve written enough of it [...]
The Mike Licona kerfluffle, and what it tells us about Evangelicals and inerrancy.
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 15, 2011
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Okay, so there’s been a kerfluffle over Evangelical apologist Mike Licona and Biblical inerrancy, in which Licona ended up losing both his job as a professor at an Evangelical seminary and his job with the North American Mission Board. I hate to be seen as benefiting from someone else’s misfortune, but as a matter of [...]
What to do about odious, but popular, religious beliefs?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 4, 2011
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Evangelical blogger Randal Rauser has written not one, not two, but three blog posts calling Richard Dawkins cowardly and immoral for refusing to debate William Lane Craig. Rauser’s “If Dawkins believes what he says about Craig…” premise, almost like he’s trying to give atheists advice, reminds me of Greta Christina’s “Letter to Concerned Believers,” but [...]
Review: Rob Bell’s Love Wins
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 30, 2011
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I knew I was going to like Rob Bell’s Love Wins from the moment I saw the back cover (at right, but I’m typing out the text in case the picture isn’t legible): “God loves us.God offers us everlasting life by grace, freely, through no merit on our part.” Unless you do not respond the [...]