Posted in epistemology, faith on 31 January 2008 | No Comments »
I just discovered that John Stackhouse has been posting on some of the themes I’ve been musing on over the past few weeks. They are grouped under the heading ‘Do You Have to Choose Between Your Brains and Your Beliefs?” and his latest discussion of the relationship between faith and knowledge is a more [...]
Posted in apologetics, atheism on 29 January 2008 | 20 Comments »
Before getting into some (in my opinion) useful questions that point toward God’s existence, we went through some of the reasons why belief in God has come to be seen as less likely over the past few centuries. Here I borrowed from Alister McGrath’s The Twilight of Atheism which presents a helpful survey of [...]
Posted in apologetics on 24 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
Given the previous discussion on what kinds of knowledge are available (personal and impersonal) and the implications that this might have for our understanding of truth and how we might approach it, it is important to return briefly to the goal of apologetics (at least as I’m conceiving it).
For me the question of whether or [...]
Posted in apologetics, epistemology on 17 January 2008 | 19 Comments »
So where to begin a course that aims to demonstrate the plausibility of the Christian faith? It seems to me that any discussion of whether or not Christianity makes sense, whether or not God can be known (indeed whether or not God even exists) must start with a theory of knowledge. What kind [...]
Posted in apologetics on 15 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
So I’m teaching a new course (new to me, that is) called Christian Apologetics this semester and I’ve decided to summarize some of the class material through a series of posts over the course of the semester. My goal is simply to highlight key arguments and questions that are raised in class with the [...]
Posted in gospel, salvation, theology on 10 January 2008 | 9 Comments »
So I’ve gone through Piper’s extensive refutation of N.T. Wright and I must admit that my confusion has not gone away. A number of Piper’s objections center around Wright’s definition of the critical term ‘the righteousness of God’. This is admittedly an important definition to get straight since it seems to be central [...]
Posted in gospel, salvation, theology on 8 January 2008 | No Comments »
Well we’re back from an unusual Christmas break, one that was spent partly waiting for Kendal’s arrival and partly scurrying around for a week after she was born. We really enjoyed introducing her to family and friends throughout Alberta and it was a great time to get away (in spite of the busyness of [...]
