The title, “Theology on the Way,” denotes the authors’ beliefs and views that the Bible is a book that constantly reveals God’s knowledge, character, truth, principles, methods, and redemptive power—and these are to be understood, interpreted, lived out, and applied on the frontline of mission for the salvation of humanity. When the gospel crosses cultural boundaries it creates a unique set of ...

Prosperity Theology is the teaching that believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the “sowing of seeds” through the faithful payment of tithes and offerings. However, the literature reveals that most adherents to the prosperity gospel are not prospering financially and prosperity preachers hav...

Obviously, removing the supernatural from the Bible touches the foundation facts of the Christian faith: the incarnation and. resurrection of Christ. And it is interesting to observe that even scholars who engage in the demythologizing ‘process take issue with one another over their treatment of these, crucial matters. Yet the dilemma seems to be that if one does not retain the incarnation and ...

Do fans sanctify their heroes? In the past, I have argued that Elvis fandom is not a neo-religious practice but that attention to a modified version of Durkheim’s theory of religion can, nevertheless, help to explain it as a form of social interaction. I take that argument further here, first by revealing the ethical and analytical advantages of neo-Durkheimian theory, then by pitting this theo...

The claim of some NT scholars tha t verba l agreements in the Synoptic Gospels prove literary interdependence among them opens a challenge to investigate those Gospels thoroughly to check the claim’s validity. An inductive investigation of fifty-eight triple-tradition sections in the Burton and Goodspeed Harmony of the Gospels finds that an average of only 16% of the words in the sections are i...