Tag: history

Satan and Senate: Do Global Powers Serve the Devil's Ends?

Satan and Senate: Do Global Powers Serve the Devil's Ends?

Following some kind of algorithm shuffle on Facebook, a few weeks back I started seeing videos and images that I would class as conspiracy theories. You can pick your poison—from...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
06 Aug 2025
The Second World War Never Happened: A Satire

The Second World War Never Happened: A Satire

If you grew up in South Africa, then there’s a good chance you were indoctrinated—just like I was. Sitting through history class in the early 2000s it never occurred to...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
11 Jul 2025
C. H. Dodd and the Decline of Corporate Worship

C. H. Dodd and the Decline of Corporate Worship

In the course of my undergraduate studies I was introduced to the very refreshing New Testament scholar, C. H. Dodd. Since then I’ve collected and read most of his works....

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
13 Mar 2025

Doodle: Constantine, the Caesars, and Jesus Christ

Last week I posted an article on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I argued that the birth of the early Christian church is more than a historical peculiarity, for it...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
04 May 2017

Complex Pharisees: Literature and History

One of the first sermons I can remember hearing as a young Christian, possibly even as an unbeliever, was an exposition of Luke 18:9-14, where Luke recounts a stinging parable...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
25 Nov 2015

In Defence of the Pharisees

Regardless of which Christian tradition you belong to, I would wager that when a Pharisee is encountered in the Bible reading your expectation is overwhelmingly negative. After all, literary critics would...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
21 Oct 2015

Risks in Reading for the Art of Biblical Narrative

Graham has recently written a couple of posts (here and here) on Alter's seminal work, "The Art of Biblical Narrative". The "New Literary Criticism" movement is not new any more...

James Cuénod James Cuénod
16 Apr 2014

Biblical Historicity and African Folklore

One fairly appealing argument for the historicity of Old Testament narratives is that Jesus/Paul/Some-author viewed treated them as historical. By this, we mean that they make arguments from them. One...

James Cuénod James Cuénod
01 Oct 2012

Theology in History

I wanted to make the title, "God is History" but that doesn't work practically as well as "Theology is History". Of course, "Theology is History" doesn't have quite the same...

James Cuénod James Cuénod
28 Sep 2011