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2025-03-03T11:56:36-05:00

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Starving Children in Sudan: Complicity in a Moral Tragedy

Last updated on: March 3, 2025 at 11:56 am By Roger E. Olson

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Is There A Moral Difference? By all accounts, thousands upon thousands of children are starving in Sudan. Many of them were being kept alive by USAID which has now been terminated. By accounts of now-fired USAID employees, warehouses in the US and other countries are filled with food waiting to go to Sudan. It is not getting to then and probably will not because Trump canceled the only means of the food getting to the hungry—USAID. Hitler and Himmler... Read more

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2025-02-27T10:38:53-05:00

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Remembering Horace Bushnell 2

Last updated on: February 27, 2025 at 10:38 am By Roger E. Olson

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Remembering the “Progessive Orthodoxy” of Horace Bushnell Part Two Bushnell was self-consciously a mediating theologian. He stood against the stream of New England Unitarianism and the accommodating liberalism while at the same time resisting the rigid orthodoxy and incipient fundamentalism of neo-Puritanism and the Princeton Theology (Alexander and Hodge). He strongly defended belief in the supernatural, including Jesus’ miracles (although he felt no need to defend every biblical miracle story), while at the same time defending the need to adjust... Read more

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2025-02-24T08:48:17-05:00

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Liberal Theology and Jesus Christ

Last updated on: February 24, 2025 at 8:48 am By Roger E. Olson

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Liberal Theology and Jesus Christ Here I continue my discussion of my book Against Liberal Theology with Chapter 5: Jesus Christ in Liberal Theology. If you have read the chapter, you may comment and/or ask a question. If you have not read the chapter, you may only ask a question. Jesus asked his disciples who people said he was. Classical, traditional, orthodox Christianity, real Christianity, has always said he is the Son of God, even God the Son. The pagan... Read more

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2025-02-24T11:50:15-05:00

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Horace Bushnell’s “Progressive Orthodoxy”: A Fresh Look

Last updated on: February 24, 2025 at 11:50 am By Roger E. Olson

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Remembering the “Progressive Orthodoxy” of Horace Bushnell Part One Progressive Orthodoxy One thing I like to do here is point readers back to neglected theologians. As a historical theologian, I find many “new” proposals in theology are not that new. Often they echo theological ideas of the past even as their promoters advance them as new. There’s some truth to the old sayings that there’s nothing new under the sun and that history repeats itself. In fact, sometimes it... Read more

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2025-02-19T12:11:44-05:00

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God According to Liberal Theology

Last updated on: February 19, 2025 at 12:11 pm By Roger E. Olson

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God According to Liberal Theology This continues my/our discussion of my book Against Liberal Theology: Putting the Brakes on Progressive Christianity. Here I take up Chapter 4: God According to Liberal Theology. If you have read the chapter you may comment. If not, only ask a question. The thesis of the chapter is: “The majority of liberal Christian thinkers do not believe in supernatural divine interventions in nature or history. However, the revisions go deeper. Most modern liberal Christian thinkers... Read more

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2025-02-12T10:46:24-05:00

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Pentecostal versus Charismatic versus Prosperity Gospel

Last updated on: February 12, 2025 at 10:46 am By Roger E. Olson

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Pentecostal versus Charismatic versus Prosperity Gospel Yes, today these labels overlap. But that was not always the case. Here’s the story. The modern Pentecostal movement in America was born in 1906 at the Azusa Street Revival near downtown Los Angeles. People spoke in tongues and some identified that as the “initial, physical evidence” of the “second blessing,” the “infilling of the Holy Spirit.” The movement then went on to birth numerous denominations including the Assemblies of God. The mostly Black... Read more

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2025-02-10T12:13:01-05:00

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The Liberal View of the Bible

Last updated on: February 10, 2025 at 12:13 pm By Roger E. Olson

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The Liberal View of the Bible Here I continue discussion of my book Against Liberal Theology: Putting the Brakes on Progressive Christianity. The subject here is Chapter 3: Liberal Theology and the Bible. If you have read the chapter, you are welcome to comment (following my stated guidelines below). If you have not read the chapter, you are welcome to ask a question that is clearly on topic. A problem here is that there is no “orthodox” (small “o”) doctrine... Read more

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2025-02-07T10:26:58-05:00

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The Sin of Shutting Down USAID

Last updated on: February 7, 2025 at 10:26 am By Roger E. Olson

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The Sin of Shutting Down USAID According to reliable news reports, Elon Musk has called USAID (United States Agency for International Development) a “tremendous fraud” and a barrel of worms. I know people who work for USAID and it is perhaps America’s greatest agency, saving millions of people, including children, from starvation in places like Sudan and Haiti. So far as I can discover, no evidence has emerged to support Musk’s (and others’) claims about USAID. So why is this... Read more

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2025-02-05T10:27:29-05:00

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Walter Lippmann and Liberal Theology

Last updated on: February 5, 2025 at 10:27 am By Roger E. Olson

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Walter Lippmann and Liberal Theology Conservative Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen’s book Christianity and Liberalism was published in 1923. There he argued that liberal theology is incompatible with biblical, orthodox Christianity and even with Christianity at all. He argued that it is a different religion and liberal theologians should admit it. Soon after that, renowned public intellectual Walter Lippmann, a secular humanist, publicly agreed with Machen. Of course, numerous conservative Christians have agreed with both Machen and Lippmann. That is... Read more

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2025-02-04T19:06:50-05:00

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Is Messianic Judaism Jewish?

Last updated on: February 4, 2025 at 7:06 pm By Roger E. Olson

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Is Messianic Judaism Jewish? I have claimed the right to say, as a Christian theologian, that liberal (Christian) theology, as I understand it and as I have described it in my book Against Liberal Theology, is not authentically Christian. It is a different religion, just as, say, Mormonism is a different religion. Or as Christian Science is a different religion. Or as Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy (esoteric) is a different religion. I have no power to enforce my opinion; I can... Read more

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