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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
‘Year of Biblical Womanhood’ Review – Part 2
This is the second part of the review of Rachel Held Evans’s A Year of Biblical Womanhood, within which we engage with chapters 4-6 of the book. It follows on from the themes discussed in the first review here. You … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Bible, Controversies, Ethics, Guest Post, My Reading, Reviews, Sex and Sexuality, Society
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‘Year of Biblical Womanhood’ Review – Part 1
I have read several books since starting my book reviewing experiment, but this is the first review that I will be posting. Indeed, to my knowledge this is my first ever experiment with audio on this blog. I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Bible, Controversies, Culture, Guest Post, My Reading, Reviews, Society, Theological
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What is Evangelicalism? – Part 4
Read the other parts of ‘What Is Evangelicalism?’ Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 This post concludes my series on the definition of evangelicalism. Evaluating Hart’s Thesis I find Hart’s iconoclastic thesis broadly persuasive. However, I want to challenge it … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, Culture, The Church, Theological
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What is Evangelicalism? – Part 3
Read the other parts of ‘What Is Evangelicalism?’ Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 In my previous post, I suggested that evangelicalism is a particular form of Protestantism marked by the marginalization of the institutional church. Within this and the post … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, Culture, The Church, Theological
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What is Evangelicalism? – Part 2
Read the other parts of ‘What Is Evangelicalism?’ Part 1, Part 3, Part 4 This is the much delayed continuation of my posts on the definition of evangelicalism. In my previous post, I discussed the definitions of evangelical/evangelicalism provided by … Continue reading
Posted in The Church, Theological
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Days Out at the Beamish Museum and in North Wales
I had planned to finish my series on evangelicalism earlier this week, but didn’t get around to doing so, with work, a visit back home, and my posts on politics. I might be able to do so if I have … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, What I'm Doing
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On Political Typologies and Trying to Understand the Politics of American Christians
A couple of days ago, I took the Political Compass test, something which I have done from time to time over the last few years. While my results were much as they were on previous occasions that I took the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics
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What is Evangelicalism? – Part 1
Read the other parts of ‘What Is Evangelicalism?’ Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 I hope to begin posting reviews of recent reading within the next week. I have already finished several books that I plan to review and will … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, Politics, The Church, Theological
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An Experiment in Book Reviewing
For various reasons, this blog has been rather quiet for the last couple of months. Currently lacking the inclination to return to my ordinary mode of blogging – interminably long posts, with a propensity to balloon into unwieldy series that … Continue reading
America Trip 3 – Moab to Las Vegas
Click on one of the photos above if you wish to scroll through them in more detail Having spent the night at Moab, we decided to return to Arches National Park, rather than to go directly on to Canyonlands. The … Continue reading
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