I just finished reading Douglas John Hall’s brief book The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity for the class I am taking in June. It’s a quick read, and at the time it was written (1997) might have been a profound work. It’s a bit dated now but still contains a few gems: […]
Craig Van Gelder on the Church
I just started reading Craig Van Gelder’s The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit, and I must say I’m really enjoying it so far. Unfortunately, I’m going to put it down for a few weeks as I try and get some reading done for a class coming up in June, but […]
Roger Olson on Charles Finny
In case you didn’t know, Charles Finny had a profound influence on evangelicalism and American Christianity. It was Finney who popularized the “altar call,” a practice still used to this day. I would put him easily in the top-5, maybe in the top-3 most influential people in the history of American Christianity. In Mosaic of […]
Roger Olson on the Atonement
We are reading Roger Olson’s Mosaic of Christian Belief as the primary text in our Overview of Christian Teachings class. Olson is a respected evangelical scholar and church historian, and he’s not exactly what you would consider a left-winger. Since there has been quite a bit of atonement debate going on recently, being Easter season […]