by Roger Olson | Oct 9, 2018 | Opinion
“Situation ethics” was popularized in the 1960s by Joseph Fletcher. As I shared previously, the writings of Augustine and Luther contain similar lines of thought to Fletcher’s ideas set forth in his book, “Situation Ethics: The New Morality,” but with several...
by Roger Olson | Oct 8, 2018 | Opinion
When I was a kid growing up in the “thick” of American evangelical Christianity in the 1960s, we were warned about one great horrible “bugaboo” (cause for fear and alarm), which would infect our thinking and lead us down a road to complete personal decadence and...
by Roger Olson | Sep 24, 2018 | Opinion
One of the most quoted clichés is from philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Another cliché is that history repeats itself, but that’s false. History does not repeat itself; people repeat it – often out of...
by Roger Olson | Aug 30, 2018 | Opinion
It has become fairly common for Christian scholars to compare the “Pax Romana” with a contemporary “Pax Americana.” Both refer to far-flung influences of central cultures including military interventions and occupations. Many Christian scholars have also begun to...
by Roger Olson | Aug 22, 2018 | Opinion
What are the greatest dangers to Christianity today? Notice that I am not asking, “What are the greatest dangers to Christians?” I am assuming the reality of something I am here calling “Christianity,” which is, to me, anyway, more than the aggregate of people who...
