Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington

June 03, 2024 01:02:14
Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington
Christian Humanist Profiles
Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington

Jun 03 2024 | 01:02:14

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Nathan P Gilmour

Show Notes

Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original connotation.  We can learn a fair bit about public life and public speech just tracing the course and changes and counter-thrusts surrounding words and phrases like fake news, alt-right, social justice, and woke.  Sola Scriptura goes back centuries before these other terms, and its career likewise promises to shed light on some complex relationships between texts and communities whose common lives involve something called Bible.  Dr. Ben Witherington’s recent book Sola Scriptura: Scripture’s Final Authority in the Modern World from Baylor University Press explores both the ways Sola Scriptura as a phrase has changed and the important continuities that emerge when careful historians examine the Church’s relationships with the Holy Scriptures. 

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