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In addition to the list below by Bernard Lang, see What Is God’s Name? Pronouncing the Tetragrammaton by John Drummond, published at BAS on January 13, 2026. Extract of 2003 the article “Why God Has So Many Names,” by Bernard Lang in Bible Review 19.4 (2003): pp. 48–50. Lang is a Professor Emeritus in Religion at the University […]
Continue ReadingA pdf of his book The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Thinking is in his directory in DropBox. From ChatGPT on 8/22/2025. Here are the original contexts and sources for Mordecai Kaplan’s quotes regarding his conception of God as an impersonal, naturalistic, or process-oriented reality: 1. “God is the sum of all the animating, […]
Continue ReadingWhat is a God in the Ancient Near East? Intro to 3 more Parts, June 2025 | Vol. 13.6 by Michael B. Hundley Michael B. Hundley is Assistant Professor of Teaching in Religious Studies at the University of Memphis. He has published multiple books on the intersection of human and divine in the Hebrew Bible and […]
Continue ReadingWhy I Think That Historical-Critical Jesus Scholarship Enriches Rather Than Diminishes the Value of Jesus for Our Spirituality by Charles Bledsoe, May 31 post at BSA. The following is his very insightful post and the follow-up comments. I [Charles] should say up front that I have a particular outside-of-the-mainstream theological and philosophical point of view, […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a thread at BSA with great insight from Charles Bledsoe and Mike Waddell. They even liked my feeble input. Does Believing in God Necessarily Mean that One Must Believe in the Reality of a Devil? I Say Not At All, What Say You? Charles Bledsoe – BSA Super Apostle, Apr 18 In anticipation […]
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