Richard Fredericks
Richard Fredericks PhD., is associate professor of religion at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Articles by Richard Fredericks
Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination
July 1989
Peterson has frequently been called evangelical Christianity's most important thinker and perhaps its most gifted pastor and writer. This is his eleventh book, and it is a pastoral/theological masterpiece. As literature it is a delight to…
Less than human?
March 1988
In the United States today, one out of every four pregnancies ends in abortion. In 14 metropolitan areas, including Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Seattle, abortions outnumber live births.1 Three abortions…
To celebrate or not to celebrate!
August 1992
Recent innovations in several Adventist congregations in the United States and elsewhere have raised the question of whether celebration in worship is a neo-Pentecostal threat. Some even consider it dangerous to use…
The moral influence theory: its attraction and inadequacy
March 1992
The moral influence theory highlights a vital truth: that God is love and He can be trusted. Regrettably, however, while affirming the patience and tenderness of God, it dismisses the legal-covenantal framework of…
The Law of Sin and Death
October 1938
The theme of this article has furnished the basis for a great deal of discussion and difference of opinion in theological circles. The common opinion in the popular Protestant denominations is that "the law of…