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  • Justin Martyr spoke of the seeds of the Word planted in the philosophies of the world and Don Richardson coined the term Redemptive Analogies.

    The Multi-Cultural Team Hernia 2006

  • That is what we mean by myth: a story that explains the world, whether or not the story happens to be true, and the Darwinist myth now comes closer to an explanation that people are prepared to accept than any other since the Redemptive history in the Christian interpretation of the Bible.

    Channeling Religious Impulses 2010

  • McAdams, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, offers one of the first comprehensive psychological profiles of Bush in "George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream."

    Putting George W. Bush on the psychologist's couch Post 2011

  • McAdams, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, offers one of the first comprehensive psychological profiles of Bush in "George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream."

    Putting George W. Bush on the psychologist's couch Post 2011

  • Pondering all this, I also thought about theologian Walter Wink and what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence: the simplistic belief in incorruptible good and irredeemable evil, locked in an endless go-around of carnage and collateral damage.

    Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010

  • Pondering all this, I also thought about theologian Walter Wink and what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence: the simplistic belief in incorruptible good and irredeemable evil, locked in an endless go-around of carnage and collateral damage.

    Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010

  • Redemptive societies emphasize these kinds of wider identities, turning communal self-expansion into the basis of a mutually supportive, coherent civilization.

    The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

  • Pondering all this, I also thought about theologian Walter Wink and what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence: the simplistic belief in incorruptible good and irredeemable evil, locked in an endless go-around of carnage and collateral damage.

    Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010

  • Here he speaks about the Myth of Redemptive Violence

    Gerhard von Rad, Genesis (1961; rev. ed. 1972) Adam Roberts 2010

  • Pondering all this, I also thought about theologian Walter Wink and what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence: the simplistic belief in incorruptible good and irredeemable evil, locked in an endless go-around of carnage and collateral damage.

    Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010

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