The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun. Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value tha…
The author is concerned with the intrinsicality of appropriate music in the Christian context
"Living like a Corinthian." In ancient Greece this phrase was an insult cast at vagrants, drunkards and sexual deviates. The city of Corinth was infamous as a center for intellectual pride and moral laxity. Any church planted there was bound to have problems. The Corinthian church was no exception. Snobbishness, factionalism, insensitivity to other believers, doctrinal looseness and overexubera…
The charismatic idea is one of evangelicalism's most troublesome issues. In Showing the Spirit respected New Testament Scholar D.A. Carson addresses both sides of the matter by expounding on the crucial passage, 1 Corinthians 12-14. Carson's even-handed consideration of nuances in the Greek Text challenge the presuppositions held by both sides of the matter. (54)