SPRING ARBOR — Reasoned discourse used to be exactly that: reasoned and civil conversation. Now neither conversation nor reason has anything to do with public debate. Whoever shouts the loudest, buys ...

Throughout the history of Christianity, followers of Jesus have earnestly sought to interpret Scripture faithfully and objectively, often believing they were applying rigorous, objective methods to ...

Throughout history, Christians have interpreted the Bible not only as a guide to faith and moral conduct but also as an authoritative source on the natural world. While many of these interpretations ...

As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East. In a ...

2) figurative / symbolic / allegorical interpretation. 3) a mixture of both. Does either the Bible or Catholicism require, for example, the serpent in Genesis to be taken absolutely literally in all ...

The Bible and many other religions urge everyone to love all of mankind. Is this realistic? To answer this question it is necessary to consider the mind, because it makes all decisions. The mind is ...

How do liberal Christians interpret the Bible? We begin with an understanding that the Bible is not a single book. This is more critical to scriptural interpretation than it might appear. The Bible is ...

When British Columbia’s Trinity Western University (TWU) received permission to launch a law school in 2016, the spotlight returned to the awkward clash of rights, both of which are guaranteed by the ...

As we mark the 50th anniversary of “Dei Verbum,” the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, promulgated by Pope Paul VI on Nov. 18, 1965, we note that one effect has been increased study of and ...