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...
by CRBC Gold Coast | Jan 23, 2024 | Articles
Third, the Fathers may also, in some cases, help us to understand the New Testament. We have had too disparaging a view of Patristic exegesis and have come close to considering the exposition of the Fathers as a consistent failure to understand the New Testament. For...
by CRBC Gold Coast | Jan 23, 2024 | Articles
Why should evangelical Christians engage the thought and experience of these early Christian witnesses? First, study of the Fathers, like any historical study, liberates us from the present. Every age has its own distinct outlook, presuppositions that remain...
by CRBC Gold Coast | Jan 23, 2024 | Articles
In an entry on “patristics” in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, a standard reference work of Christianity, the church fathers are described as those authors who “wrote between the end of the 1st cent.… and the close of the 8th cent.,” which comprises...
