by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 2.4 The distinction between description and prescription The final principle I want to clarify is the distinction we have to make between those New Testament passages that merely describe the activities of the...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 2.3 The regulative principle of worship The regulative principle of worship is, stated simply, the principle that God alone has the right to regulate our worship, by his word.[1] In worship, we (1) must do...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 2.2 Finding a balanced understanding of church tradition and church history How then do we understand the tradition of the church, as it has developed after the Apostles? Is any development after the New Testament...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 1. Introductory Remarks Pagan Christianity? by Frank Viola and George Barna is an aggressively polemical book claiming to expose “the roots of our church practices”[1] as fundamentally pagan, rather than biblical....
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” 2. Foundational Principles 2.1 The Concept of Tradition in Scripture Viola and Barna almost exclusively treat tradition as a threat, but, of course, a tradition is simply a belief or practice that has been passed...
