Common Denominator

Before I go back to sleep, I thought I'd share an insight I just had on defining evangelicalism today. I'm a Biblehead by trade and ...

Very interesting piece  by Jenell Williams Paris in Christianity Today in response to Mark Noll's book, Jesus Christ and the Life of th...

I'm skimming Divided by Faith for the conference on campus this weekend reflecting on the book 10 years later.  So far an excellent boo...

What is that strange phenomenon where those with the most zeal often seem to lack "knowledge," while those with the most "kno...

... construction of fundamentalism is the Table of Contents for the volumes of The Fundamentals put out in the 1920's (thanks to Bud Be...

Pre-modern interpretation might find coherence between diverse portions of the Bible in several ways. For example, Origen (ca. 185-254) beli...

We were privileged to have Randy Maddox of Duke Divinity School here at IWU today for our Spring Religion colloquium. Ken Collins was here a...

IWU was privileged today to have Mark Noll on campus. I was able to hear him in a luncheon and at a presentation on evangelical scholars in ...

I’m done with Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and have had some time for things to percolate in my mind. Here are some tho...

In chapter 5 of Noll's book, he discusses "The Catholic Catechism." This is a 756 page document commissioned by Pope John Pau...

The reading group book of the semester at IWU is Mark Noll's The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind . His basic premise is, well, that ther...

At long last I have finished chapter 4 of Mark Noll's book, Is the Reformation Over? By the way, Noll and Nystrom give their answer to t...

This week we look at Mark Noll's third chapter, "Why Did Things Change?" In it he explores some of the events of the last fif...

Chapter 2 of Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom's book, Is the Reformation Over? is called "The Historic Standoff." In this chapte...

In his first chapter, Noll and Nystrom present evidence that "Things Are Not As They Used to Be." The first contestant was Billy G...

For the next couple weeks, I hope to review Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom's 2005 book Is the Reformation Over? (see link at the side) N...

A friend of mine put me on to a chapter in Mark Noll's book, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis . The chapter was "The Crisis o...