The question of the relationship between faith and reason is one of the perennial questions within Christian philosophy. Nearly every major Christian thinker down through the ages has said something on the topic of faith and reason, especially those with some sort of apologetic in mind. The greats of these ranks include those such as … Continue reading Pascal: Faith & Reason
Christianity & Liberalism is what might be rightly called the pinnacle of the Christian defence for orthodoxy. The landscape in which the book falls into is one of increasing religious Liberalism, a movement which overtook Christianity in the years following the Enlightenment up through the early Twentieth Century (and even into the present) in the … Continue reading Book Review: Christianity & Liberalism – By J. Gresham Machen
The Case for Christianity is one of three books which would later be compiled into C.S. Lewis' classic exposition of the faith, Mere Christianity. On its own, the book is a discourse on morality, specifically the moral argument for God. Two snippets from the text serve well to sum up the argument being made by … Continue reading Book Review: The Case for Christianity – By C.S. Lewis
From antiquity through the postmodern age Christian thinkers have been faced with the confrontation between Christianity and culture, and even more specifically the confrontation between Christianity and secular (or pagan) philosophy, which is one of the chief areas in which Christianity fights against the thought patterns of any given generation. One of the earliest Christian … Continue reading Tertullian and Philosophy – Rationalist, Fideist, Apologist?
Postmodernism is an idea that is [intentionally] ill-defined and poorly understood, both by those who call themselves postmoderns and by those who attack them. One of the groups which has set its sights on postmodernism in recent years is the Christian church, which has had no shortage of condemnations for it. Granted, we may also … Continue reading Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? – By James K. A. Smith
In his book The Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton asserts that “the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.” Chesterton is here referencing the way the early church had to deal with their contemporary culture attempting to bring all religions into one accord; the solution as Chesterton presents it was … Continue reading Rereading the Faith for Today – Gnostic Tendencies and Defending Against Them
Dorothy L. Sayers is an author whom I sorta randomly stumbled upon. I had seen her books in the library, and had heard this book mentioned once in a lecture, but had never read her and had never really heard much about her. However as I started looking around at information on her my curiosity … Continue reading Book Review: Creed or Chaos? – By Dorothy L. Sayers
Within the realm of Christian theology there are many fiercely debated topics. One such topic is the question of the how the Law is to be understood in the Christian faith, especially in the light of the gospel and in the life of the Christian. Taking on this task, Reformation thinkers Martin Luther and John Calvin … Continue reading Two or Three Uses? – The Law in Luther & Calvin
Voltaire seems to be one of those figures in philosophy who's name everybody recognizes and yet one doubts whether they've actually read anything by him. Most seem ready to quote him as saying "a witty saying proves nothing" whenever they've been bested with a quote; which is at once incorrect, a self-contradiction and a misquotation. … Continue reading Book Review: Candide – By Voltaire
There are few books which I am more indebted to than Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I think I may say with some certainty that it is the book which spurned me to think critically about my faith, to delve into the pool that is theology. The book is what one might call the second in a series, preceded … Continue reading Book Review: Orthodoxy – By G.K. Chesterton
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