Archive for August 2023
Medieval Nominalism and Postmodern Despair
Italian medievalist Umberto Eco’s 1980 novel, The Name of the Rose, is many things at once. It is a postmodern novel, a detective novel, a novel of metaphysical ideas, and an…
Read MorePodcast Throwback: Why did R.C. Sproul think Classical Theism was his legacy?
From his books to the chalkboard, R.C. Sproul communicated the deep things of God in an accessible way. When asked what the core of his legacy was all about he…
Read MoreInferno, Canto 17
Dante’s Divine Comedy is a literary masterpiece that continues to captivate readers with its vivid depictions of the afterlife and its profound theological insights. As a work of Christian literature,…
Read MoreProving God from Perfection
Can God be proven? Yes. Even the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC) provided a famous argument for God as the Unmoved Mover, the unchanging first cause of all change. Denying…
Read MoreChristian Faith and Metaphysical Reason
Biblical scholar N. T. Wright observes with regard to Romans 1:19–20, “Paul clearly does believe that when humans look at creation they are aware, at some level, of the power…
Read MoreIsrael, Family History, and Evangelical Snobbery
Evangelicals have a strange relationship with Israel. Now, far be it for me to get into geopolitics surrounding the modern nation state or dispensational eschatology. When it comes to the…
Read MoreWhy Mary’s Assumption Is Indefensible
In this video, Credo Fellow Gavin Ortlund expresses the Protestant concern about the bodily assumption of Mary and responds to 6 common defenses of this dogma, including some from the…
Read MorePodcast Throwback: What is Partitive Exegesis?
How can we hold our systematic theology in one hand and take seriously the exegetical task in the other? How do we interpret scripture in light of Christ’s two natures?…
Read MoreC. S. Lewis’s Argument from Reason
I am intellectually indebted to a brilliant Christian thinker from the twentieth century who taught me how to defend the Christian faith. He taught me how to prove the supernaturalism…
Read MoreInferno, Canto 16
Dante’s Divine Comedy is a literary masterpiece that continues to captivate readers with its vivid depictions of the afterlife and its profound theological insights. As a work of Christian literature,…
Read MoreGoodness in the Local Church
One of the most underrated attributes of God is his goodness. Like all of God’s attributes, it informs a variety of other facets of life and theology, from creation (Gen.…
Read MorePrayer and Gossip?
As a pastor I always did my best to encourage my congregation to pray. Prayer is, I believe, one of the lesser-attended subjective means of grace. I suspect that when…
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