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Won’t Get Fooled Again? Machen on Old-School “Jesus v. The Bible” Liberalism
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9) The Teacher was a bit of a pessimist, so we might be prone to...
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The Paradox of Spiritual Hindsight (We Only See Sin in Light of Christ)
Kierkegaard said that life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. More popularly, “hindsight is 20/20.” I think there is no place this holds more truly than in the spiritual...
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Mere Fidelity: Making Sense of God Interview with Tim Keller
We are delighted to have a preacher some of you might have heard before on the show: Tim Keller. He joins us to discuss his (excellent) new book, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical. We...
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Nyssa: The Recovery Must Fit the Disease: (Or, Not Everyone Is A Youth Group...
Early on in my theological reading, I gained the impression that contextualizing our presentation gospel was a new concept that Lesslie Newbigin came up with in the 1970s and 80s. It’s not....
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Owen’s Polemical, Trinitarian Spirituality
Historian Richard Muller points out that if Reformed Orthodox theology had a “central-dogma”, contrary to most popular perceptions it wasn’t the doctrine of election, but that of the Trinity. That made...
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A Note on Biography, Theology, and Ad Hominem
Nietzsche was the master of the ad hominem. I’ve been thinking about arguments again, but this time with respect to the turn to first-person narratives in the broader internet landscape, and within the...
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The Best Apologetics Is Good Systematics
Yesterday’s post on the shape of atonement doctrine raised the issue of how the wrong sort of apologetic mindset when it comes to preaching and forming doctrine can distort our understanding of how and...
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The Comfort of a Moral Cretin
One of Roger Olson’s main problems with Calvinism is the difficulty it presents when wrestling with the problem of evil. Along with several other arguments on the matter, he invokes what we might call...
View ArticleCorrect Error Without Radicalizing Doubt
The first time I got called a heretic, I think I was about 19. I had just started getting into theology, biblical studies, N.T. Wright, that sort of thing, and was slowly walking away from the default...
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When You Sort of Miss Disenchantment
People who read Charles Taylor talk a lot about “disenchantment.” Well, other people to do too, but those are the folks I know. I am/have been one of them. The notion is contested, but very, very,...
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