Engaging Unbelief
Just finished reading Engaging Unbelief by Curtis Chang. Very interesting book. He looks at books by Augustine and Aquinas (City of God and Summa contra Gentiles) with the idea of seeing how they each...
View ArticleFrancis Schaeffer (again!)
Increasing feeling the need to defend Francis Schaeffer. Perhaps because he gets such a harsh side-swipe in Carl Raschke’s ‘The Next Reformation’. (Ok, maybe it was only aimed at one part of his...
View Articleapologetics, logic and justice
I was reminded recently about the classic logical fallacy of post-modernism — the refusal of all meta-narratives functions itself as meta-narrative and before you know it PoMo will eat itself. Now, I...
View ArticleI never met a narrative I trusted
Following the previous posts, we have the question, if reduction to logical contradiction isn’t a way to engage post-modernism, what is? Let’s try for Curtis Chang’s approach of entering the story and...
View Article(don’t) stop making sense
In case anyone is tempted to mis-interpret my recent posts (1, 2, 3), here is a helpful quote from Dan Kimball (from They Like Jesus, but not the Church): Some people think that apologetics isn’t...
View ArticleCulture and questions (3): Synthesis
OK, the title says synthesis, but I’m not sure I can do this justice. Anyway, let’s see how we go. I’ve got three or four different things floating around my mind that I want to try to link. The first...
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