Jun 9The Bible of Christianity & Christianity of the BibleThe Bible of Christianity The Bible of Christianity refers to how the Bible came to be: the selection, adaptation and redaction of the books that form the Bible. 1) Genesis: The primeval account of the origin of the universe, of life and of humanity is followed by the ancestral account of Abraham’s migration from…Christain 9 Ty5 min read
Jun 9A Bird’s Eye View of the BibleOld Testament The 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament began as oral teaching and were later committed to writing. Their compositions have been redacted over the years. The ones that we inherited are called the final forms. In the modern arrangement, the OT begins with a theological account of this world’s…5 min read
Jul 8, 2021Hebrews, Israelites & JewsAre they the same people? Today, Israel refers to a nation, whose culture is Jewish and its language Hebrew; yet the Hebrews were a people, Israelite areligion and Jew, a race! The extended family of Jacob (along with his servants and slaves) settled in the land of Goshen in Egypt…Jews11 min read
Feb 17, 2021THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY, FROM ABRAM TO JESUSThe 2000 year spiritual journey from Abram to Jesus culminated in the Christian Church of the 4th century AD. During the past 4000 years since Abram’s migration from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the Bible is a recent form of God’s revelation. 19th century BC — Abram, a Mesopotamian trader and El…History2 min read
Sep 21, 2020LIFE, DEATH & RESUSCITATION: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTHThe issue of recoveries from comas and vegetative states raise some important theological questions regarding the ethics and doctrines regarding life, death and existence in between. In the past, death was registered when the cardio-vascular system fails. Today, it is brain-death that is more important, since we are now able…Life3 min read
Sep 21, 2020RATIONALITY’S REASONING STRATEGIES — HOW WE BELIEVERationality is humanity’s most important survival strategy. It operates between different modes of knowledge and across different reasoning strategies. This makes interdisciplinary and cross-contextual conversation possible. Why should Christian theology bother to engage across disciplines and contexts? The Great Commission extends the Gospel across geohistorical borders of ancient Israel., i.e…Philosophy4 min read
Sep 21, 2020TRIBUTE TO A TEACHER & A FRIEND — LAMIN SANNEHToday, I pay tribute to my teacher and friend, the late Professor Lamin Sanneh. He was a professor of history and World Christianity at Yale. …Laminators Sanneh4 min read
May 21, 2020SPIRITUAL INTEGRITY & Covid 19WHY INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY IS CRUCIAL FOR THEOLOGY? *************** CLAIM: People of faith who believe in God need history, philosophy & science to keep theology honest. STATE OF AFFAIRS: Covid 19 has finally done what I was hoping decades of research and study would do — expose the deep problem of…Covid 195 min read
Jul 3, 2018Reflections on the Geohistory of Faith along the Silk Road:Human Origins, Genetics and the Illusion of Otherness The interdisciplinary investigations in science and theology draw our attention to the illusion of otherness. Behind the geohistorical veil just 5500 years ago, we find a planet of 20 million humans with no known writing. This places our current preoccupation with textual…History25 min read
May 3, 2018Paleoanthropology & the Emergence of AdamWe shall explore the anthropology, geology and biology of human evolution. Paleoanthropology Two scientific explanations for human origins exist — the punctuated and the gradualist models. Ian Tattersall, a punctuationist, thinks symbolic behavior emerged from one chance mutation that suddenly and dramatically transformed the human mind.[1]Modern humans arrived from somewhere…Evolution21 min read
