Featured Series: Taking Back Christianese by Michael J. Kruger

Last year, New Testament scholar Michael J. Kruger featured a series on this blog about the way Christians talk.  He writes:

"This series is designed to analyze a number of theological phrases or practical bits of Christians wisdom that may simply be wrong, or at least misunderstood. Or maybe both.

Now to be clear, I will not be suggesting that the instances of Christianese we will be exploring in this series are necessarily wrong. Taken properly, they may be right in many ways. But, of course, that is precisely the issue. Often they are not taken properly. Instead they can be used to justify some questionable theological views.

So, the goal of the series–and this is important to get–is not to refute these phrases but to clarify, to nuance, and to balance out these phrases. In the world of theology, lack of nuance is one step (often a big step) towards doctrinal error."1

The series is as follows:


To learn more about Kruger's work, go here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Footnote:
1. Michael J. Kruger, "Taking Back Christianese," June 1, 2016.

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