Lesslie Newbigin’s Epistemology: Humble Presuppositionalism?
“Humble Presuppositionalism: Newbigin’s Fallibilist Coherentism, with a Dash of Plantinga,” originally written in June 2009 for a course at Bethel Seminary San Diego. Bracketed comments carrying my...
View ArticleZen & The Art of Gospel-Evasion: Interview with Commentary
Originally written for a course at Luther Rice University & Seminary in August 2011, under the title “Zen & The Art of Gospel-Evasion: An Interview with Commentary.” Outline PrefaceZen &...
View ArticlePious Apologetics
Image courtesy ArmchairBuilder.com (Creative Commons license). Greg L. Bahnsen, in his Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended, offers insight on the properly pious Christian approach to...
View ArticleTheology Is Queen, Science Subject
Gordon H. Clark, in his Karl Barth’s Theological Method, asserts that letting Scripture-based theology reign as queen over the sciences yields the the unity of knowledge reason requires. “Orthodox...
View ArticleImpious Ethics Impossible
Rousas John Rushdoony, in his The Mythology Of Science, points out the logical superiority (given unbelieving or “neutral” premises) of the Marquis de Sade’s anti-ethics over relativistic “consenting...
View ArticleFor The Impious Eye, More Light Means Greater Terror
H. P. Lovecraft, in “The Call of the Cthulhu,” models how the unbelieving / impious should view the world around them—with horror, terrified.(Were unbelief correct and Scripture no revelation): The...
View ArticleNo Piety, No Unity; Know Piety, Know Unity
Cornelius Van Til, in The Defense Of The Faith, describes how any unity of thought and experience the impious (unbelievers) claim is illusory. (Since unbelief is not correct and Scripture is...
View ArticleImpious Ethics (Still) Impossible
Rousas John Rushdoony reiterates how the consistent immorality of the Marquis de Sade is the course most logically consistent with unbelief.Because [the Marquis de] Sade was so consistently evil, he...
View ArticlePious Ranking of Information Sources
Tim Chaffey and Jason Lisle explain how and why Scripture must take precedence over (theories about) nature in Christian scientific work.…since the Bible has never been wrong about anything, and since...
View ArticlePious Prior Commitment And Choosing A Fork
Yesterday’s quote asked if Byzantine-priority or Majority Text theory is “less naturalistic and anthropocentric, and so more pious (and less impious), than the highly naturalistic and anthropocentric...
View ArticleWhat Would The Lone Ranger Do? Wrong Question.
John Crotts. Loving the Church: God’s People Flourishing in God’s Family. Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9824387-4-9. No price on cover. In Loving the Church, John Crotts, a...
View ArticleCreation Conference 2013: Why Carp Parts and Bahnsen Matter
Creation Conference 2013: Why Origins Matter, also promoted as an Answers in Genesis “Answers Conference” and an Institute for Creation Research event, Monday 28 January 2013 and Tuesday 29 January...
View ArticleYahoo! A Discussion Board Post Concerning The Trinity
I just posted the message below to a Gordon Clark discussion group on Yahoo!. Find the original post (minus added links) here. The series of three posts I found confusing may be found here, here, and...
View ArticleDesigned to Renew Your Mind: Guliuzza’s Creation Apologetics
Yesterday (Saturday 28 September 2013), the creation museum in my area held its yearly “Museum Day.” Though the event ran from 9 AM to 6 PM, with presentations by a range of speakers from Gary Parker...
View ArticleHoping the Best for C. S. Lewis: Reflections on Robbins
Image: Foggy Foothpath © Copyright Dave Smethurst and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons License. One seminary I attended, Bethel Seminary San Diego, hosted lectures this week by a C. S....
View ArticleEvolutionists’ Fear and Loathing in San Diego
Earlier this week, an email from my local creation museum informed me that said museum had been refused membership in the area’s Museum Council. I’d spoken to employees and friends of the museum the...
View ArticleVisit Prompts Letter: Can I Get A (Jehovah’s) Witness?
I’m not sure how this happened with all the barbed wire, “No Trespassing” signs, and roaming attack dogs on the property, but Monday of this week a local Jehovah’s Witness made it to my front door....
View ArticleTrue Reason: Worth Thinking Your Way Through
Gilson, Tom, and Carson Weitnauer, editors. True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8254-4338-1. Abridged versions of this review may...
View ArticlePermission to Avoid Permission to Doubt
Sullivan, Ann C. Permission to Doubt: One Woman’s Journey into a Thinking Faith. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2014. Paperback. 173 pages. ISBN 978-0-8254-4366-4.Ann Sullivan’s Permission to Doubt might best...
View ArticleComprehensive, Informative…Inconsistent, Flawed: 40 Question about Creation...
Keathley, Kenneth D., and Mark F. Rooker. 40 Questions about Creation and Evolution. 40 Questions, series ed. Benjamin L. Merkle. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2014. Paperback, 430 pages. ISBN...
View ArticleWorthwhile Reading…For Some: History, Law and Christianity
Montgomery, John Warwick. History, Law and Christianity. Corona, CA: NRP Books, 2014 (prior edition copyrights were 1964, 1991, and 2002). Paperback. 102+xv pages. ISBN 978-1-945500-01-5. While my...
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