Articles for tag: Bruce Metzger

April 15, 2019

Mark Scott

Lesson for April 21, 2019: Follow the Risen One (Mark 16:1-11)

Dr. Mark Scott wrote this treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson. Scott teaches preaching and New Testament at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri. This lesson treatment is published in issue no. 4 (weeks 13-16; March 31–April 21, 2019) of The Lookout magazine, and is also available online at www.lookoutmag.com. ______ Lesson Aim:  Believe the startling reality of Christ’s resurrection. ______ Clark Pinnock said, “The biggest objection to Christianity is that it seems too good to be true.” But it is true. Christ has been raised from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:20). That fact alone compels us to follow the Risen One.

April 1, 2007

Christian Standard

Why Scholarship Matters in the Church

By Robert F. Hull Jr. It was Tertullian (ca. ad 200) who famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What has the Academy to do with the Church?” (Prescription Against Heretics, 7). Ironically, his own polished rhetoric shows his indebtedness to higher learning, which enabled him to write essays both in Greek and Latin in the service of his faith. Moreover, had he not been schooled in philosophy, he could not have argued so skillfully against it. Scholarship Matters It is still not unusual to find high-level scholarship derided as a sterile, if not dangerous, undertaking for those

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