Jasper A Huffman 1880-1970
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Theology Textbooks and the EMCC Part 1
As the twig is bent… Some Church traditions make the claim that they have never changed their teachings from the time of Jesus and the apostles. More recent bodies claim they have restored the original teachings of Jesus from the… Continue reading
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Fundamentalism and the EMCC 2
Continuing a survey of the intersection of fundamentalism and the Missionary Church. My idea is that the early Missionary Church, at least the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, approved some of the theological aims of the fundamentalist opposition to liberal theology… Continue reading
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Fundamentalism and the EMCC 1
This is my trouble–/These were my fathers/ So how am I supposed to feel?/ Way out on the rim of the broken wheel. from Bruce Cockburn, “Broken Wheel” (1981) When Presiding Elder Alvin Traub of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ… Continue reading
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Huffman and Biblical Archaeology
Jasper Abraham Huffman’s book, Voices from Rocks and Dust Heaps in Bible Lands,1 was probably the first book of biblical archaeology I ever read. I was likely less than 14 when I read it, but by then I had certainly… Continue reading
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