Posted in church, evangelicalism, theology on 31 May 2007 | 20 Comments »
A couple of ideas have been bouncing around for the past couple of weeks, mainly because of my participation in a class on Eastern Christianity as well as my attendance at the annual meeting of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Society. Both of these experiences brought the question of what role tradition plays (or ought [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, science on 16 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
After last week’s interview with Dawkins I was interested to see Alister McGrath show up on “The Hour” the other night (view it here). McGrath has written two books in response The God Delusion: Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life and The Dawkins Delusion? Kudos to George for bringing on [...]
Posted in faith on 9 May 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Two mistakes about the concept of faith are common. The first is to think that faith is a peculiarly religious word and has nothing to do with everyday life. The second is to presume that faith has no relationship to knowledge, that the two stand as utterly separate categories of assent.”
“No one exercises [...]
Posted in atheism on 8 May 2007 | 9 Comments »
Since I’ve had a bit of a fascination with Richard Dawkins’ rise to prominence, I was interested to see him pop up on ‘The Hour’ last night (watch it here). George Stroumboulopoulos asks him the obvious first question: What’s wrong with religious belief? to which Dawkins replies:
“It’s a tragedy to base your life on [...]
Posted in theodicy on 7 May 2007 | 6 Comments »
After a semester long delay, I finally finished N.T. Wright’s Evil and the Justice of God. The biblical focus of the book will do little to convince the skeptic but it is an excellent summary of the Bible’s presentation of what God has done (as opposed to what God has said) about the problem [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 2 May 2007 | 2 Comments »
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