By: Stuart|26 September, 2009|Categories: Practical Engagement|Tags: Apologetics . iphone . Practical engagment
Here is some good news from MDL Associates concerning technological advances in the availability of apologetics. On 10 September, 2009 “ApApp Christian Apologetics” was launched. If you ever been stumped when talking to your friends, it used to be you had to say “I don’t know. I’ll have to get back to you on that one…” No longer! Just pull…
Read more »By: Stuart|25 September, 2009|Categories: Theology|Tags: Creation . General Revelation . John Calvin . Jonathan Edwards . Martin Luther . Natural Theology . Nature . Scripture . Special Revelation . Thomas Aquinas
Last time we looked at different sources and norms for Christian belief, and found there were at least four legs that makes the stool a theologian sits on. These legs were Scripture, tradition, reason and experience. We also suggested there is another source and norm, and as we begin our overview on the Doctrine of Revelation we will be exploring this fifth leg – creation.
Read more »By Ron Hay The December 2004 headline was eye-catching – “Famous Atheist Now Believes in God.” The Associated Press story went on to say, “A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half century has changed his mind. He now believes in God…based on scientific evidence.” The professor in question was Antony…
Read more »By: Stuart|19 September, 2009|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Theology|Tags: Alister McGrath . Biblical Interpretation . Chuck Missler . Cocceian school . Hermeneutics . Leonard Goppelt . Marshian school . Patrick Fairbairn . Quadriga . Richard Davidson . Typology
McGrath says there is a sense in which the history of Christian theology can be regarded as the history of biblical interpretation. This is particularly true of typological interpretation. Over two thousand years it has been plagued by misuse and misunderstanding. A cloud of uncertainty lingers today over the nature of typology and the hermeneutical principles that might help establish the study of types.
Read more »The MP3s are up and ready to listen (or you can watch) Here are the names of the speakers: Dinesh D’Souza, Norman Geisler, William Lane Craig, Greg Koukl, Darrell Bock, and JP Moreland. What a fantastic lineup!!! Here is the page: http://saddleback.com/mediacenter/services/currentseries.aspx?site=yDi0V4EwP58=&s=OsqcpA0SUkE= http://apologetics315.blogspot.com/ should have the MP3s linked pretty soon…..
Read more »By: Stuart|05 September, 2009|Categories: Philosophy
Essential to the moral argument is affirming the existance of objective moral values and duties. If narualrism is true then there are no objective moral values and duties, and therefore all moral values and duties are merely subjective. But this brand of ethical theory, called Subjectivism, we find inadequate for the following reasons. For one it does not adequately explain…
Read more »By: Jason|04 September, 2009|Categories: DVDs|Tags: christopher hitchens . debate . douglas wilson
The documentary of the debate tour involving new atheist Christopher Hitchens and pastor Pastor Douglas Wilson comes out next month.
Read more »By: Rob|03 September, 2009|Categories: Creation & Evolution
The above title is stolen directly from the Uncommon Descent website posting of the same name. It seems they are having quite a lot of success if hits are any sort of metric. They write: We thought the readers here might be interested in knowing a little bit about how much interest is out there for ID. One gauge of…
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