Thursday, April 05, 2007

Analysis of Jeffrey John’s talk by Peter Ould

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=1525

[Anglican Mainstream] 5 Apr 2007--So Dr John’s BBC Lent Talk has been broadcast. You can listen to it and read it here. Where do I begin? The immediate thing that stood out for me was that Dr John’s quoting of Scripture stopped when he started dealing with the Atonement. His exegesis from this point onwards was human experience, not the Bible. Now there might be a way that seems right for people, but we know the end of that… The key paragraph is this one:

Related articles from Anglican Mainstream:
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=1524
What did Jeffrey John actually say?
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=1522
The cross, suffering, atonement and forgiveness
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=1523
Testimony to the power of Substitutionary Atonement
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=1521
Evangelical Bishops stand up and are counted: “Jeffery John has got it wrong”: Benn and Broadbent

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