The autumn 2008 Harvard Divinity Bulletin published a criticism of a Holy Land theme park in Florida by Joan Branham. Ignoring the Bible kitsch, which is unavoidable, and the trivializing of the Gospel, I would like to focus on a couple of paragraphs representative of her, and others’, discomfort with the project.
The mixture of Jewish [...]
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Poythress: Redeeming Science
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged bibliology, genesis, intelligent design, myth, natural theology, philosophy of science, poythress on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach
Vern S. Poythress
Paperback, 384 pages
Crossway Books
October 2006
It takes a couple of chapters to adjust one’s self to the pre-suppositional, Reformed worldview in which Redeeming Science is written. Poythress makes no attempt to address skeptics or even wider Christendom, and he is not obliged to; but I wonder how much more his [...]
In Praise of Sprachgeful
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aktionsart, aspect, historical linguistics, jargon, lexis, philology, redaction on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every sub-culture and every field of activity has a lexis endemic to it. In intellectual fields it is usually the concepts behind the jargon that create the steep learning-curve, but it doesn’t hurt if the words themselves are easily recognized. Theology and philosophy, owing so much to German, to say nothing of long-dead languages, have [...]
Taking Jesus Seriously
Posted in Ethics, New Testament, tagged aceticism, bible interpretation, jay williams, jesus on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is an interesting article on bibleinterp.com by Jay Williams, which I found alternately profound and amusing. Williams should be heard directly, but here I quote a couple of paragraphs after his overview of Jesus’ stark and acetic ethic.
There is little doubt in my mind that even the most fervent Protestant believers would argue that [...]
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