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Are Biblical Scholars Constrained by the Doctrinal Statements?

August 20, 2020 by Randal

Today, someone who watched my debate with David Smalley emailed me to ask if I could provide a more fulsome reply to his suggestion in the debate that New Testament scholars draw positive conclusions about Jesus (e.g. his existence, resurrection, etc.) because they are constrained by the requirements of institutional doctrinal statements. Here is my […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: academic freedom, historical Jesus, scholarship

First they came for Michael Licona

November 10, 2011 by Randal

A few months back  I blogged in defense of one of evangelical Christianity’s leading apologists and academics, Michael Licona. Why? The poor chap actually had the temerity to raise probing, intellectually honest questions about the historicity of Matthew 27:51-54. Once the hounds of inerrancy caught poor Mike’s scent they started braying and the chase was on. For weeks […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: academic freedom, Al Mohler, censorship, evangelicalism, inerrancy, Michael Licona, Norman Geisler, scholarship, Southern Baptist

Quote others the way you would have them quote you

October 4, 2011 by Randal

Martin Luther is a darling of the internet infidel community not least because he provided many quotable tidbits which can be invoked at will to marginalize Christians as being “irrational” or “anti-reason”. Take the case of Jag. In reference to the claim that faith is opposed to reason he noted “Martin Luther would have strenuously […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: academia, charity, Martin Luther, scholarship

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