Pimpin’ Archives

by | Sep 30, 2006 | Blogging

Can I really say that word and be taken seariously? I just finished installing Extended Live Archives as the new format for meandering through THE CAPRANICA’s previous posts and categories. The new format will help me search through and retrieve the vast amounts of valuable material located here in the smallest amount of time and with the greatest of ease. Another reason why WordPress whips Blogger. I am still in the process of processing all of my posts under categories. I have 439 posts on this blog and still 197 of them yet to be categorized....

Why the Old CT Wouldn’t Sell Today

by | Sep 30, 2006 | General Theology

‘Truth from the Evangelical Viewpoint’ – Christianity Today Magazine The linked article was written by Mark Noll and rehearses the beginning of Christianity Today, which is celebrating fifty years in existence. While in seminary I had the opportunity to glance through some of the first issues of Christianity Today. When it began, CT produced a number of thought provoking theological articles and Bible-centered cultural pieces under the editorship of Carl F. H. Henry. While writing a research paper on Harold Linsdell, I also perused a few issues of CT while he was editor and noticed a similar trend of more Bible-centered articles. George Marsden’s book, Reforming Fundamentalism, provided me a tremendous backdrop to view the beginnings of institutions like Fuller seminary and Evangelicalism’s flagship periodical, Christianity Today. I still say that the class I had in seminary on “Contemporary Evangelicalism,” was one of the most helpful for me in putting the current status of the American church into an understandable perspective. Based on what I read in the old CT issues, Marsden and others, I am convinced that the majority of Evangelicals would not tolerate such a magazine today. Yes, that is to say, in my opinion, CT is not today what it once was. I still have a subscription to CT and read it monthly as well as follow its RSS feeds. More often than not, it merely makes me reach for a tums tablet. Today, it seems that CT no longer wants to speak to issues from “the Evangelical Viewpoint,” as it was defined from its inception, but rather, it simply wants to report on the theological...