I am currently reading through Gordon Wenham's commentary on the first few chapters of Genesis in order to gain a better understanding of what has been a controversial issue in the church for some time, and especially in recent decades (the issue I am referring to is, as you might have guessed, the relationship between modern science and the Genesis creation ...
To provide a contrast to Austin's ongoing series on Thomistic philosophy, I thought I would start a series to look at notable Christian philosophers of the analytic tradition, and some of their contributions to philosophy. Before diving in, it is necessary to give at least some explanation of what on earth analytic philosophy is. Since this a ...
Resuming our series on Thomas Aquinas, we will now delve into his metaphysics. You'll recall from a previous post that metaphysics is basically the study of the fundamental nature of reality, or first principles. Metaphysics is critical for coherently piecing together all those seemingly independent beliefs that together constitute a worldview. ...
The following post is the first part of what will be an ongoing series, "The State of the Church," where we look at issues relevant to the current state of the body of Christ. Through these posts, we hope to bring to light issues of both encouragement and criticism which we feel deserve more attention. This is a pretty common question today in the church, ...
