Understanding Church Tradition and Church History

A Response to “Pagan Christianity?”

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....
Understanding Church Tradition and Church History

Tradition in Scripture

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...
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

A Response to “Pagan Christianity?” Table of Contents    1. Introductory Remarks 2. Foundational Principles 2.1 The concept of tradition in Scripture 2.2 Finding a balanced understanding of church tradition and church history 2.3 The regulative...