Teaching the Church to Think Biblically

References:

(1) “The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult” by William S. Bainbridge and Rodney Stark.

(2) TIME magazine joined the bandwagon with the April 8, 1966 issue with the red on black cover gut- punch question on the cover asking: Is God Dead?

(3) Near the end of the 19th century Friedrich Nietzsche started his “God is dead” movement.

(4)“Radical Theology and the Death of God” by William Hamilton and Thomas Altizer.

(5) Martin Luther King, Jr. said in a speech in Washington D. C., “I have a dream that my 4 little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

(6) Survey results showed then (around the middle of 20th century) that 97% of Americans believed in God.

(7) In 2014, the Pew poll found that only 63% of Americans believed in God.

(8) On Dec. 26, 1969 TIME magazine had another cover story asking: Is God Coming to Life?

(9) In an article on April 7, 1980, TIME magazine marveled, “In a quiet revolution in thought and argument that hardly anybody could have foreseen only 2 decades ago, God is making a comeback.

(10) “The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology” edited by William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland.

(11) “ Why God Won’t Go Away” by the theologian and scientist Alister McGrath who writes “I can hardly fail to point out that the common understanding of human nature over the past 2000 years is that we possess, and are meant to possess, a homing instinct for God.

This is episode 145