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  • Defenders of the Faith: Christianity and Islam Battle for the Soul of Europe, 1520-1536
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Entries in N.T. Wright (2)

8:00AM

Lee Strobel Fouls Out

I took an hour or two today to watch Lee Strobel’s “The Case For Faith.”

The Amazon reviews are typically full-throated exultations of the video’s power. 

I found it weirdly lacking in substance.

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3:00PM

Righteousness Like Filthy Rags: Luther, Bob Dylan, and the Problem of Goodness

It's a subtle difference, but it's huge: it destroys utterly the false assumption that righteousness or "works" are a bad thing or even suspicious, and that they're not important to God or of no value. They're of huge value. More importantly it destroys the false assumption that becoming a Christian is something that happens irrespective of one's actions. To claim one is a Christian without doing well is to either be a really bad Christian or to be a liar, depending on where you lay your scriptural accents.

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