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Rob Bell

Oprah interviews Rob Bell … and Randal too!

November 28, 2014 by Randal

Rob Bell recently appeared on Oprah’s “Super Soul Sunday”. Before I continue, let me note that I like Oprah. In a world of increasingly nasty, polarized people, she appears to be a genuinely kind person who has done a lot of good in the world. My biggest problem with Oprah is that her view of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Oprah, Rob Bell, satire

Changing Christian attitudes about atheism

October 22, 2014 by Randal

These past few weeks I’ve been working to complete my book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? Rethinking Christian Attitudes toward Atheism. This is a book that I believe should be read by every Christian and every atheist. Of course you’d say that, Rauser. Heck, why not just say that  it should just be read by everybody? […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity, Hemant Mehta, Rob Bell

As long as you teach the Bible, I have no problem with you.

September 30, 2011 by Randal

An observation from Rob Bell: Somebody recently told me, ‘As long as you teach the Bible, I have no problem with you.’ Think about that for a moment. What that person was really saying is, ‘As long as you teach my version of the Bible, I’ll have no problem with you.‘ (Velvet Elvis, 44). Sigh. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical interpretation, doctrine, heresy, hermeneutics, heterodoxy, orthodoxy, Rob Bell, theology

The very worst reason to reject universalism

April 28, 2011 by Randal

While at “The Christian Post” I came across a blog article by an apparently popular Christian author / speaker named “Ray Comfort” who claims to have written more than seventy books and who apparently hosts a TV show with Kirk Cameron, the one-time child sitcom star who grew up to become the protagonist in low-budget […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: damnation, eternal conscious torment, hell, justification, Lost Dogs, Ray Comfort, Rob Bell, universalism

Must a Christian believe God exists?

March 7, 2011 by Randal

In the recent hullabaloo created by the slick marketing arm of HarperOne in which Rob Bell and Justin Taylor were played off against one another like a rousing rendition of “Dueling Banjos” down on the bayou, a number of questions have bubbled to the surface. But be careful, crocodiles lurk in those waters. Some of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: essentialism, heresy, heterodoxy, orthodoxy, Rob Bell

How to declare Rob Bell not an evangelical theologian (if you must)

March 6, 2011 by Randal

Alex Jordan responded to my critique of the Rob Bell Affair (or what I call “RobBellGate”; Geez, it has the same number of syllables as “Watergate”, so why is it so unwieldy?) as follows: You put a really bad spin on what Justin Taylor and others were doing. You claim they act within of a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Hans Kung, Inquisition, Justin Taylor, Rob Bell, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Rob Bell, the heresy hunters, and the evangelical culture of fear

March 6, 2011 by Randal

Apparently there was quite a kerfuffle this week when word got around that Rob Bell’s new (and as yet still unreleased) book Love Wins is, or probably does, or might, support universalism in some way. Apparently it all started when influential blogger Justin Taylor concluded after viewing a two minute promotional video that Bell is a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Al Mohler, evangelicalism, heresy, heterodoxy, John Piper, Justin Taylor, orthodoxy, Rob Bell, universalism

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