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Pre-Critical Evangelicals
Evangelical laypeople are, in many ways, pre-critical in their outlook. They are pre-critical both with respect to their reading of Scripture, and to their understanding of history. Now, it is of course true that very few people are totally immune to the effects of academic historical criticism in their view of the world. But…
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St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Paul on the Faith of Abraham
St. Paul’s use of Abraham as the paradigm for Christian faith forever stamped the narrative of this patriarch upon the Church’s imagination. No Christian conception of faithfulness to God can ultimately escape meditation upon “the father of all who believe,” as Paul calls him in Romans (Rom 4:11). Indeed, St. Paul’s discussion in Romans…
Jackson Shepard 