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On Gordon H. Clark’s apologetic methodology
On Gordon H. Clark’s apologetic methodology(In response to …)There is no reason to see Clark’s thought on apologetics as ‘skeptical’ (the view that all epistemologies fail, and so no truth c...
On the old churches, and why Protestants are still right.
On the old churches, and why Protestants are still right.(A response to a friend)Well it's a tough one, because those of a Greek orthodox persuasion are very into being Greek, and so the Greek theolog...
A Genocide Against Women
A Genocide Against Women.To be spiritually minded is to realize that we must have the wisdom God gives in the Scriptures, and not think as modern man thinks, that his own finite knowledge is a suffici...
On Cornelius Van Til and his supposed denial of Sola Scriptura
To a Friend,As much as I disagree with much of what Van Til said and wrote, saying that General Revelation, God's revelation of Himself in creation, is of equal authority with Special Revelation, mean...
The Life of the Mind Conference
To all,This is another conference that I'll be speaking at in August. If you happen to be in L.A. or the O.C. California try to come by and say hello. I'll be speaking on "A Generous Heterodoxy: Is ...
Christians crucified by terrorists in Iraq « Christian Theology
http://christiantheology.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/christians-crucified-by-terrorists-in-iraq/To be spiritually minded is to realize that we must have the wisdom God gives in the Scriptures, and not th...
God and Governing Conference
This is an upcoming conference that I'm involved in planning and organizing. I would encourage you to attend if you have the opportunity.All the best,Christopher NeiswongerA Conference on Ethics, Virt...
That uncertain newness
That Uncertain Newness.There is a mood to any age, and this one has its own. On the one hand, it is a temper infatuated with the new, as if newness itself were a virtue by the simple merit of innovati...
On Atheisms and why they are unthinkable.
On Atheisms and why they are unthinkable.There are things, we can call them things because we don’t really know what else to call them, like the laws of logic, numbers, consciousness, ethics, relati...
New Team Blog
This is a new team blog I'm doing with some other guys. You must go to it right now and link us to your site. It is imperative for the survival of the human race and possibly some other race or two....
The Existence of the Soul?
The Existence of the Soul?The existence of the soul? ( Answer to a question from a friend)Answers: Yes. No. The Confessions of St. Augustine.To the other thing, there are eternal thoughts within the m...
Messianic Judaism
Messianic Judaism. (an answer to a question from a friend)Sorry if these answers are a little vague, but as I said, there is not a clearly defined answer here. Messianic Jews don't have an official c...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Four.
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Four.When you hear somebody that says they are a Calvinist say that man has no freewill, it’s hard to take that seriously. We all know that man has a will. The ques...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part three.
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Three."Only lest any one should presume so to deny freedom of will, from a desire to excuse sin." Augustine."Of our own we have nothing but sin." Augustine.Calvinism...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Two.
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Two.Sometimes when people read Aquinas they can get an inflated sense of his theological skill from the fact that they focus on ten percent of his work, being, his fo...
On Religious Experience: Part Three. On competing claims to Special Revelation
On Religious Experience, Part Three. On competing claims to Special Revelation.(A response to a friend about the competing claims of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the light of universal religiou...
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part One.
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part One.Calvinism… oooo… spooky. If half of the things that people say about Calvinism were even half true I could never be a Calvinist. It’s not so much that peopl...
On Religious Experience: Part Two, a response to a friend
On Religious Experience: Part Two, A response to a friend.As to “proof”, it doesn’t seem to be that I am using the word in an erroneous fashion as much as that you are defining the term with an ...
