Nunc Super Tunc: Does History Matter?

The title is Latin for “Now is superior to then.”1 It’s a shorthand way of getting at an attitude, which is widespread among American Christians, that says whatever we think and do now is necessarily superior to anything that was thought and . . . Continue reading →

Geocentrism Anyone?

It is no longer revolutionary (no pun intended) to hold that the earth revolves around the sun, but it was not always so. The observation of Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), that the universe is heliocentric (sun-centered) and not geocentric (earth-centered) was met with . . . Continue reading →

A Review of the Story of Christian Theology By Roger Olson

A REVIEW OF THE STORY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: TWENTY CENTURIES OF TRADITION AND REFORM, by Roger E. Olson. Intervarsity Press, 1999. 652 pp. $34.99. This review appeared originally in Modern Reformation, July/August 2001 Historical theology is an important part of the process . . . Continue reading →