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Gospel influence
From
MPhil 2003
2003 The Problem of Evil: Anglican and Baptist Perspectives: MPhil thesis, Bangor University
Statement twenty-one: This statement was stated: Human suffering will decrease as the Gospel’s influence increases. For Anglicans 36% agreed, 20% were not certain, 44% disagreed. For Baptists, 36% agreed, 14% were not certain, and 50% disagreed.
FEINBERG, JOHN S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House.
MOLTMANN, JÜRGEN (1993) The Crucified God, Minneapolis, Fortress Press.
PHILLIPS, D.Z. (1981) Encountering Evil, Stephen T. Davis (ed.), Atlanta, John Knox Press.
PHILLIPS, D.Z. (2005) The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God, Fortress Press, Minneapolis.
November 10, 2019
A tricky question. A true gospel influence (as opposed to a overly-politicized Christianity), over the western world and the world in general, should cause the Christian Church to benefit societies.
On the other hand, in this realm, suffering and death biblically continues until the new realm is established (Revelation 21-22) and the resurrection to perfection (1 Corinthians 15) for those truly within the gospel, atoning and resurrection work of Jesus Christ.
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Peer review
A good friend with a secular Master's degree, recently opined that an academic needs published journal articles. 'Publish or perish'. An argument is that academic journal articles alone allow for peer review.
I agree that academic journal articles provide the possibility of peer review.
A blog, as in the traditional blog, is considered not academically orientated. However, this Blogger blog is presented as an academic website, obviously. It is not a traditional blog. It is merely hosted on Blogger. It is published work.
An academic can search the internet and view my fifteen years of academic entries on this academic website and can provide an academic peer review through comments. My website archives can be searched. Or, I can reviewed on another website, or my ideas can be reviewed, without me being named.
Further, this website is previewed on my Facebook business page, Russell Norman Murray, which also has comments where an academic peer review could take place. The website is promoted on Twitter and LinkedIn where peer review, can occur. I can be reviewed online and offline.
In fact, my fifteen years of academic online work (almost thirty years of academic work), including my entire MPhil thesis and most of my PhD thesis is available for peer review. I would deduce, that unless an academic journal is available online, particularly to the public, that a website such as mine actually reaches more readers.
If I need to revise because I, or someone else, critiques web content, worthy of revision, and I revise, that is because my academic work is publicly available and available for peer review.
2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter
