by Kevin Bauder | Jan 27, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading
What we call “the doctrine of the Trinity” is, I suggest, a formal set of conceptualities developed like this: a set of conceptualities that finally allowed (or at least was believed to allow) every text to be read adequately. As such, it is not a “biblical doctrine”...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 27, 2017 | Apropos of Nothing
I always wondered how Pastor Matt Recker accomplished so much. Now I know.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Ethics, New Testament, Problem Passages, Social Issues
This is an older treatment, but still useful. Daniel Wallace pinpoints the issues in 1 Timothy 2:12. The force of almost every word in 1 Timothy 2:12 has been debated. This brief paper will lay out the major interpretive issues involved, without commenting on...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Civility, Culture, Rhetoric, Sacred and Mundane
Jon D. Payne at Reformation 21 talks about why our words matter. To be sure, the problem of unwholesome speech is not new. It’s been around for ages. I remember on one occasion, while I was young, my parents washed my mouth out with soap after I had used a bad...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Civility, Education
On January 10 the National Association of Scholars published a report alleging that American universities are teaching civics in such a way as to undermine American civilization. On January 17 Stanley Fish responded in the Chronicle of Higher Education, arguing that...
