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Trinitarian Creativity: Creation, Self and Originality
Posted on 05/06/2013 | No CommentsCan we add anything to the universe? Can we give anything back to God that he has not already given to us? When we try to answer these questions, we sometimes feel torn between two extremes. On the one hand,... -
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The Cult, Fear, and Myth of the New: Three (conflicting) Narratives
Posted on 03/06/2013 | 6 CommentsIn a recent article titled How to Discourage Artists in the Church, Philip G. Ryken suggests that ‘[m]any Christian artists live between two strange worlds,’ caught between the oddities of the art world and the church world. Ryken writes about how... -
Reviews: The God Problem and The Artful Species
Posted on 01/06/2013 | No CommentsRobert Wuthnow. The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univeristy of California Press, 2012, ix + 332 pp., £24.95/$34.95 cloth. In this book, Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, investigates... -
The Myth Made Fact in the Local Congregation
Posted on 31/05/2013 | No CommentsOne of the stumbling blocks that held C. S. Lewis back from embracing Christianity was his inability to understand how the death of an obscure Jewish rabbi two thousand years ago could have any impact on his life. Lewis found... -
From Hyrule to Mass Effect: Video Games as a Conduit for Theological Interaction
Posted on 30/05/2013 | 1 CommentAs anyone with a strong theology of creation will agree, art, at its best, presents us with a unique vantage point on God’s Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. While every artistic medium presents us with distinctive avenues of insight and perception,... -
Gospel through Shared Experience
Posted on 29/05/2013 | No CommentsMy interest in evangelism/apologetics, natural theology and metaphysics has its roots in the soil of the Midwest; more specifically, two courses that I took at Cedarville University. The first was Dr. Daniel J. Estes’ course on “Wisdom Literature,” and the second,... -
Plato and Imaginative Apologetics
Posted on 28/05/2013 | No CommentsIn the apocryphal book of 1 Esdras 3-4, the author says that three bodyguards who guarded King Darius wanted to know: what is the strongest (or the most powerful)? If Plato had answered this question, he would have included the...
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