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Universalized-Not So Evangelical Faith

Closed Published by jdodson June 27th, 2008 on Creation Project

In recent news, the Pew Foundation released figures that reflect a highly tolerant, pluralistic Christianity in the U.S. However, these figures are being disputed by the Lifeway Research Group based on the wording of the Pew Foundation’s question regarding the exclusive claims of Christianity: “My religion is the one, true faith leading to eternal life.” […]

Monuments to Gypsies, Lesbians, and Jews

Closed Published by jdodson January 29th, 2008 on Creation Project

What people, what nation builds monuments to gypsies, lesbians and Jews? The country that had the power to rule the world—Germany. In an incredibly redemptive turn, Germany has not only publicly acknowledged the atrocities of the Holocaust, it has also set out to embed cultural markers of confession and repentance by erecting monuments to the […]

What Determines your Vote?

Closed Published by jdodson January 21st, 2008 on Creation Project

According to research done by Barna group, Evangelical voting concerns are quite different than the rest of the American population. In fact, the numbers are disconcerting…
Evangelicals’ top concern - by a wide margin - was abortion (94%). This was followed by the personal debt of Americans (81%), the content of television and movies (79%), homosexual […]

Christianity, A Religion of Negatives

Closed Published by jdodson December 27th, 2007 on Creation Project

Christianity, especially fundamentalist Christianity, is often cast as a religion of negatives. It is often quipped that Christians are known by what they are against, not what they are for. George Marsden has highlighted the particularly negative Christianity of fundamentalists by calling them “evangelicals who are angry about something.”
These negative and angry expressions of Christian […]

Limitations of Evangelical Theology

Closed Published by jdodson November 2nd, 2007 on Creation Project

Limitations of Evangelical Theology
1.      Unawareness of culture-boundedness of Western theology that leads to an ethnocentric assertion of unswerving rightness.
2.      Over attachment to those forms of Scripture that are most familiar.
3.      Highly academic and disconnected approach to theology and praxis.
4.      Philosophical presuppositions unbalanced.
5.      Theocentric to the exclusion of human experience. High Christology, weak anthropology.

Contributions of Anthropology
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