Category: Theologians

Yesterday I headed up to Regent College with some friends to hear Scott McKnight expound on the meaning of the gospel in a provocatively sub-titled conference, "How the Plan of Salvation Obscures the Gospel." I was generally...

If you've been around theology and philosophy you probably know about Friedrich Nietzsche's famous statement that "God is dead." (You may be unaware of some of the follow ups such as "Nietzsche is dead - God" and "God is dead,...

Rachel Held Evans and Mark Driscoll;  Hawaii and Maine, Florida and Alaska; opposite poles on the map of contemporary evangelicalism.  He the shameless biblical chauvinist complementarian, she the thoughtful progressive...

Just finished Ben Witherington's new little book, Is there a Doctor in the House? It has a bit of the feel of a reminiscence but is mainly advice for younger folk who are thinking about becoming Christian scholars. It is...

It's interesting to see the occasional critique of Richard Dawkins by a fellow skeptic. Here's a recent one from Daniel Craine at the Guardian: As a sceptic, I tend to agree with Dawkins's conclusion regarding the falsehood of...

Farewell Rob Bell: we've moved on to other controversies now. In the latest Norm Geisler has taken up once again the standard of "defender of Orthodoxy, with particular reference to innerancy." Last year Mike Licona wrote a...

From what little I've seen of the Occupy Wall Street movement  and it's humble little brother, Occupy Bellingham, I'm not terribly impressed.  I don't disagree with the stated goal of addressing corporate greed and its...

Some captivating thoughts from Hans Kung in response to Freud's claim that God is a psychological wish-fulfillment, not a reality: "Freud's main statement on the critique of religion is: 'Religious ideas are fulfillment of...

Both CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud grew up in religious homes. For Lewis it was Irish Protestantism, while Freud’s family was Jewish. But as they developed in their thinking and as they left their mark on culture they arrived at...

I had fun sharpening swords with Marc Cortez over at Scientia et Sapientia last week over the Christian view of personal freedom.  We might also call this the "Calvinism - Arminianism" debate to make it more easily...