In 2003, Mitch Albom released a popular book called Five People You Will Meet in Heaven. This emotional-psychological puff piece…
Philosophical Theology is a discipline that seeks to explore theological and religious concepts from a natural theology point of view,…
Yes, that is the sesquipedalian title of my Master’s thesis, and what was funny is that our final paper’s title…
Many times, when I attempt to critique atheism, the atheist will accuse me of the straw man fallacy, accusing me…
If you get involved in theological or other logical arguments, you will soon come upon the many logical fallacies that all people engage in unless…
In my frequent discussions with atheists, I often see faith referred to in a very negative light, and I realize…
In The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief (2006), Huston Smith (d. 2016), the lifelong religion scholar and Professor of Philosophy…
The question of how Christians can and should approach our interaction with believers from other faith traditions is an important…
Augustine wrote The Trinity over twenty years, ending with a text so enormous that it was published in parts, in…
One of the weaknesses of modern Christianity is a lack of disciplines for self-observation, self-knowledge, and self-mastery. This is partly…
In Evangelical circles, self-love is an idea and practice often viewed with suspicion, if not outright hostility, most often being…
Learning to hear the voice of God in our hearts and minds is a practice that we get better at…
Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of…
Christianity, both contemporary and historical, has focused primarily on self-denial, and so has often mishandled and abused not only the…
The Triadic (a.k.a. “tripartite”) model of Biblical anthropology declares that humans are composed of three distinct parts – spirit, soul,…
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves,…
The current majority view in evangelical Christendom regarding the makeup of man is dualism, that is, two components, the physical…
In Christian leadership and laity, the word “inerrancy” is often misunderstood because it is ambiguous until it is well defined and qualified by a handful…
The Importance of this Question Jesus of Nazareth is reported to have done many miracles in the bible, including casting…
Last Update: 12.9.2021 Changes: Added Grenz As a Master’s student in theology, I have had to take a class in Systematic…
1.0 Introduction Biblical Theology (BT) is a relatively recent approach to hermeneuticsHermeneutics (/ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/) is the theory and methodology of interpretation,…
One of my new precious book acquisitions is another anthology by William J. Bennett, The Book of Man: Readings on…
One of the main ways we can reduce the acrimony in our society is to stop proposing that government should…
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what…