(For Part I, click here.) In the second part of this series, we bade farewell to the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy, and I promised you a way of determining which parts of the Bible we ought to believe.
An Apologetic for Liberal Christianity – Part II (“Inerrancy Rejected”)
(For the first part of this series, click here.) The Claim Some people believe that the Bible is inerrant. By this they mean that what the Bible says is invariably true, or that the Bible never goes wrong with respect to what it says, or that the Bible, properly interpreted, is always reliable, or any
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An Apologetic for Liberal Christianity – Part I (“We’re Awful!”)
I do not believe in demons. Heaven occasions skepticism. Mary was very likely not a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus. The deluge never happened. Adam is a fictional personality. And your great, great, great – and on and on for many many iterations – grandmother looked almost exactly like our sarcopterygian friend in
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Editor’s Note – Job’s Lament
“[God] destroys both the blameless and the wicked. When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges — if it is not he, who then is it?” Job 9: 22-24 (English Standard Version) Our
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A Thought Beginning with van Inwagen
Today I’m going to give our readers something like a sneak peek of our next issue – coming out soon! – by discussing part of the contribution from Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and all-around philosophical celebrity (best known for sticking it to atheists, compatibilists, and everyday objects
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Why Are We Here?
In the past few weeks, I’ve been blessed to have had numerous occasions to reflect on the purpose and mission of Christian thought in general and the Ichthus in particular, and I wanted to take some time to share my perspective and engage with the rest of the community. I think the issue of articulating
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