Course Review Course Review: Apologetics 101 – Scott Oliphint, Westminster Theological Seminary 9 May 2017October 25, 2017 Apologetics comes from the reality of Scripture. It is not an invention of theologians and philosophers. I've decided to try something new, to start a new type of series. I…
Book Reviews Book Review: The Truth War – By John MacArthur 22 Sep 2016September 22, 2016 The Truth War is John MacArthur's account and call-to-arms against what he claims to be the most pressing pitfalls in contemporary theology, specifically, postmodernism and the arrival of the…
Book Reviews Book Review: The Saviour Sensitive Church – By Paul Chappell & John Goetsch 21 Sep 2016February 6, 2018 Anybody who's paid attention to the happenings in the Christian church throughout the past few decades cannot help but notice the advent the megachurch, what are often popularly termed "seeker-sensitive"…
Book Reviews Book Review: The Universe Next Door – By James W. Sire 7 Sep 2016October 10, 2017 In the wake of the Enlightenment it became more and more clear as people began to try and doubt everything that there was to doubt, that eventually one runs…
Book Reviews Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? – By James K. A. Smith 1 Sep 2016September 1, 2016 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…
Recent Scholarship… Rereading the Faith for Today – Gnostic Tendencies and Defending Against Them 31 Aug 2016October 2, 2017 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…
Book Reviews Book Review: Velvet Elvis – By Rob Bell 23 Aug 2016 elvet Elvis is author Rob Bell's attempt at bringing Christianity into the modern world. He begins by talking about a painting and noting how if, after this painting had been…
Book Reviews Book Review: The Fall of Interpretation – By James K. A. Smith 11 Mar 2016July 31, 2017 While there has been much scholarship written in the realm of hermeneutics, these discussions on the whole tend to limit themselves on how to go about hermeneutics; they generally confine…
Theological Reflection Chesterton’s Apologetic & The World Today 10 Mar 2016August 16, 2016 G.K. Chesterton - despite his great girth - is somehow often overlooked in contemporary discussion. Yet if you should take up most any book of his and read you will…
Recent Scholarship “All of this, of course, is rank speculation” – or, 3 Main Problems with Modern Scholarship’s Account of the Early Church 9 Mar 2016October 25, 2017 When the average Christian take up their Bible and reads, the assumption is generally made that what is being read is the inspired word of God. Yet in popular contemporary…
