This We Believe: Exploring the Essential Texts of the Christian Faith
Michael Niebauer
58 episodes
1 week ago
video link: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWeBelieve Many of us are taught to read the Bible like we are going to therapy, mining scripture for passages that inspire us, or help us solve problems in our lives. Though there are strengths of this approach, therapeutic readings can tend to create a transactional relationship between us and God, and can prompt us to read our own wants and desires into the Bible. This episode continues our critique of modern approaches to reading the Bible, paving t...
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video link: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWeBelieve Many of us are taught to read the Bible like we are going to therapy, mining scripture for passages that inspire us, or help us solve problems in our lives. Though there are strengths of this approach, therapeutic readings can tend to create a transactional relationship between us and God, and can prompt us to read our own wants and desires into the Bible. This episode continues our critique of modern approaches to reading the Bible, paving t...
This We Believe: Exploring the Essential Texts of the Christian Faith
14 minutes
3 weeks ago
Reading as Historians
video feed: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWeBelieve Many of us are taught to read the Bible like historians. We read a passage, use the tools of academia to reconstruct its original context, then tease out morals and principles to help us in our current context. While this approach has many strengths, it also has some major weaknesses, as it can lead to elitist, unstable, unspiritual, and unbiblical interpretations. This episode continues the first part of this season, where we discuss how the...
This We Believe: Exploring the Essential Texts of the Christian Faith
video link: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWeBelieve Many of us are taught to read the Bible like we are going to therapy, mining scripture for passages that inspire us, or help us solve problems in our lives. Though there are strengths of this approach, therapeutic readings can tend to create a transactional relationship between us and God, and can prompt us to read our own wants and desires into the Bible. This episode continues our critique of modern approaches to reading the Bible, paving t...
