Lewis’s appeal is to our imaginations.
Erasmus had to work on the basis of the criterion of accessibility. As far as we can ascertain, none of the half dozen manuscripts were earlier than the tenth century.
On Tolkien: His fussiness threatened to overwhelm his creativity.
The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality.
Life is about more than just understanding things: it is about being able to cope with ambiguity and bewilderment, and about finding something worthwhile to give us direction and meaning.
God may accept us just as we are--but he isn't going to leave us there. God wants to move us on, to help us become the people we are meant to be.
Around this time, the term Calvinism was used by its opponents to refer to the Reformed type of Protestantism as a means of emphasizing that it originated from outside Germany. The term appears to hav...
Jan van Leyden announced that a new world order [anabaptism] had been revealed to him and promptly began to implement it. Money was abolished; polygamy was legalized; marriage was made compulsory for...
In 1962, Francine Smithline—a schoolgirl from New York—wrote to C. S. Lewis, telling him how much she had enjoyed his Narnia books and asking him for information about his own schooldays. In reply, Le...
For Tolkien, a myth awakens in its readers a longing for something that lies beyond their grasp. Myths
Many views that would later be regarded as heretical had their origins in a close reading of the biblical text.34 The Arian controversy of the fourth century, which pitted the arch-heretic Arius again...
Like Matthew's Bible before it, the Geneva Bible alienated the establishment on account of its marginal notes.
As the philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) put it, a defensible framework of beliefs enables us to hear a tune where otherwise we would hear only a noise.4
Yet there is a final issue that needs to be noted here. The koine Greek of the New Testament is the everyday Greek language of working people rather than of self-conscious literary scholars and poets....
Tyndale was strangled in October 1536, and his dead body then burned at the stake. Tyndale's fate is an important reminder that biblical translation was more than just a scholarly challenge in the ear...
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
In one sense, faith is about embracing this bigger story and allowing our own story to become part of it.
In his Bible translations, Tyndale coined such phrases as: the powers that be (Romans 13); my brother's keeper (Genesis 4); the salt of the earth (Matthew 5); and a law unto themselves (Romans 2). The...
Hebrew idiom that the translators interpreted literally and so failed to appreciate the general drift of the text. The idiom to rise up early to do something actually means to do something continually...
TO BE asked to minister without an informing vision of God (which is what theology is really all about), however, is like being told to make bricks without straw. What keeps people going in ministry,...