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Joshua Ryan Butler

Divine Violence and the Church: Is Joshua Ryan Butler’s answer sufficient?

June 27, 2016 by Randal

This week “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley featured an engaging discussion on God and wrath between Brian Zahnd and Joshua Ryan Butler. I think highly of both Zahnd and Butler. They are both learned, articulate, and irenic. (By the way, you might want to pick up Butler’s new book The Pursuing God. It’s getting rave reviews. And […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical violence, Brian Zahnd, divine violence, Joshua Ryan Butler, Justin Brierley

Divine Violence Revisited: My Response to Joshua Ryan Butler on “Unbelievable”

February 23, 2015 by Randal

I just listened to the latest episode of “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley which consisted of an interview with Joshua Ryan Butler and Jeff Cook. (You can listen to it here.) (You might recall that I recently reviewed Butler’s book The Skeletons in God’s Closet in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3). The episode focused […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical violence, ethics, genocide, Joshua Ryan Butler, Unbelievable

The Hope of Holy War? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 3)

January 4, 2015 by Randal

Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War. Thomas Nelson, 2014. This is part 3 of my review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet. For part 2 click here. Part 3 begins with the story of Rachel, a congregant at Butler’s church who […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical ethics, biblical violence, holy war, Joshua Ryan Butler, morality, Old Testament, review, The SKeletons in God's Closet, war

The Surprise of Judgment? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 2)

December 26, 2014 by Randal

Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War. Thomas Nelson, 2014. This is part 2 of my review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet. For part 1, click here. The second section of the book turns to the topic of judgment and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Joshua Ryan Butler, judgment, justice, review, The SKeletons in God's Closet

The Mercy of Hell? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 1)

December 21, 2014 by Randal

Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War. Thomas Nelson, 2014. The title was the first thing that drew me to this book. One hears a lot about the skeletons in God’s closet, so a book that takes the topic by the proverbial […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical interpretation, biblical violence, biblical warfare, genocide, hell, Joshua Ryan Butler, The SKeletons in God's Closet

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