Bryan W. Ball

Bryan W. Ball, PhD, is a retired professor/administrator living in Martinsville, New South Wales, Australia.

Articles by Bryan W. Ball

Yesterday and Today in Evangelistic Techniques

April 1966

Recently a daily news­paper in the industrial Midlands of England, with a circulation near­ing a quarter of a mil­lion, published a lengthy correspondence on the Sabbath - Sunday ques­tion. One letter run was an unprovoked attack on Seventh-day…

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Four Years' Continuous Evangelism in the English Midlands

October 1966

Public evangelism in the British Isles has sel­dom brought such large returns as it has in other parts of the world field. Even evangelistic tech­niques that have proved highly successful else­where have not always succeeded here. The reason…

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The immortality of the soul: Could Christianity survive without it? (Part 2 of 2)

May 2011

 

Editor’s note: In part 1 of this two-part series, the author traced the mortalist viewpoint through the continental and English Reformation. He concluded the first part by listing theologians, scholars, and philosophers throughout…

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The immortality of the soul: Could Christianity survive without it? 1 (Part 1 of 2)

March 2011

More than half a century has passed since Oscar Cullmann delivered the Ingersoll lecture at Harvard and it was published under the title Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?2 Cullmann was, at the time,…

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This incomparable Jesus

May 1982

If every leaf, and spire of grass, . . . nay, all the stars, sands, and atoms, were in so many souls and seraphims, whose love should double in them every moment to all eternity, yet would it fall infinitely short of what His worth and excellency…

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Saving righteousness

June 2010

Since 1888, the phrase righteousness by faith has been central to the Adventist understanding of salvation. For three centuries before that, it was the core of Reformation theology. Today, as the biblical emphasis generated by the…

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