Christian Converser

Category: Theology

  • Conspiracy Theories and Christian Nationalism Contrarian To Church Growth [3]

    Continuing on this theme, the key political alignment for Christians in the US is with the Republican Party, and this is despite the failure of Christians to see much commitment from Republican presidents. Voters in the last term got possibly more from Trump than from a good many of his conservative predecessors, but it is…

  • Conspiracy Theories and Christian Nationalism Contrarian To Church Growth [2]

    In the first part of this series we took a look at the issue of conspiracy theories and how by feeding into a Christian Nationalist narrative, actual growth of the Kingdom of God is hindered rather than helped. As is often the case on this blog, further reflection on this subject has led to a…

  • Formation of the Scriptural Canon

    Following on from the posting about the book of Ecclesiasticus a few weeks ago, the bigger question that can be asked is how the Scriptural canon accepted by various churches came into being. This turns out to be surprisingly complex. The Old Testament is generally divisible into two parts, the protocanon and the deuterocanon, with…

  • Conspiracy Theories and Christian Nationalism Contrarian To Church Growth [1]

    A conspiracy theory is simply a theory about some type of event or occurrence that invokes a conspiracy by “sinister and powerful groups” , even when other explanations are more probable (source: Wikipedia). There are a lot of conspiracy theories sourced within and propagated by the Christian community, especially its more conservative elements. The real…

  • The Book of Ecclesiasticus (Unrelated To Ecclesiastes)

    The Book of Ecclesiasticus is one of seven deuterocanonical works that are accepted as canonical Scriptures only by the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches and Assyrian Church of the East. They considered non-canonical by most Protestant churches, and are therefore found within only some editions of the Bible. Although the name…

  • Blog Shift

    This blog is taking a breather for a while. Theological posts will appear on Christian Converser instead.

  • Dreams, Visions and “Signs And Wonders” Theology

    Signs and Wonders refers to a particular branch of theology that has become noticeably prominent since about the 1960s in certain churches of a Pentecostal disposition or alignment. The main charge that traditional theologians often level against Pentecostals are that particular doctrines or beliefs and practices in Pentecostal (or Pentecostal-aligned, e.g. charismatic) churches are more…

  • US Christian Nationalism Politics Splits America, Church [3]

    Everyone’s seen the disturbing unfolding of seditious political insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 6. There’s no real need to go over that here, the main concern for this blog is the fatal attraction that the outgoing administration has held for evangelical Christianity in America and the apparent reluctance of its…

  • US Christian Nationalism Politics Splits America, Church [2]

    This is a really quick update to the first blog post about this subject. Delving into the subject in Google has turned up quite a bit more stuff, and whilst this post will be shorter than the last one, the additional information is really pertinent to this topic. Firstly, Ed Stetzer of Wheaton College has…