Book Review Archives - Capturing Christianity

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Dispelling A Bunch of Myths About Christianity in the Second Century

Luckily, not too many people are Jesus mythicists. The consensus among scholars is that Jesus really existed. There are a ton of reasons for this, but at least one reason…

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Book Review: The Bible in a Disenchanted Age

Originally delivered as a series of lectures, The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith is “interested in giving an account of the processes that are…

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Book Review: Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament

I have wanted to read John Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament for a long time. When I learned that a second edition was being published, my…

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How did the Early Church Read Genesis 1?

Christians often debate what the Bible teaches about the age of the universe. Inevitably, the way the church has read Genesis through the ages is invoked. Here the early church…

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Why Christian Apologists Must Remember Death

Death permeates the Bible. The consequence of Adam and Eve eating from the tree is that they will surely die. When God speaks to Adam, he says to him, “you…

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In Defense of the Genesis Flood

Conversations about science and religion inevitably get around to the Genesis flood. Behind the topic of evolution, the flood depicted in Genesis is probably the most common topic in the…

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