By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-12-30T18:37:30-05:00July 29th, 2025|Tags: Biblical Violence, Heaven, Revelation, Violence|
Are we ripe for apocalypse? The author of Revelation looks critically at the Roman imperial enterprise and sees through it. As it nears its economic zenith, he hears the laments: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon!” An interview with Dr. Arthur Dewey
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-04-16T14:39:48-04:00April 23rd, 2025|Tags: Christian Heresies, Genesis, Gnosticism, Martyr, Plato, Revelation|
Since the discovery of a substantial trove of ancient texts—unfamiliar to the modern world until the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries—we’ve begun to hear a different side of the gnostic story, one that’s worth listening to.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-01-23T23:54:35-05:00January 23rd, 2024|Tags: Book of Acts, Christianity, Paul, Religion, Revelation, The Jewishness of Jesus|
People who know anything about Paul from the Bible generally know the story of Paul's conversion. But is that really what happened? Did he become a Christian or remain a Jew? Presenter: Dr. B. Brandon Scott with host Dr. Shirley Paulson
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-19T00:22:06-04:00September 27th, 2021|Tags: Christian Canon, Revelation|
This last book in most (but not all) canons of the New Testament was contested even before there was a notion of canon or New Testament. It was contested in a number of the pre-canonical lists of books to be read, including by the likes of Martin Luther 1300 years later. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-09-20T17:23:33-04:00September 21st, 2021|Tags: Bible, Christianity, New Testament, Revelation|
But based on the two predominant views, the Revelation to John has never made sense to many—often most—Bible readers, much less to non-Christians.
