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...
by Joshua Arthur | Feb 16, 2024 | Articles
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...