Since the 17th century, classical theism has been seen as the mainstream doctrine of God in the Christian scholarly tradition. John W. Cooper describes the God of classical theism in his book, Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers: “In brief, classical theism asserts that God is transcendent, self-sufficient, eternal, and immutable in relation...
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Christianity is marked by the boldness of thousands throughout history. The Apostle Peter preached before men of every nation on the day of Pentecost, bringing three thousand men to Christ and sowing the seeds of the gospel all across the Middle East. Martin Luther nailed the Ninety-Five Theses onto the door of the largest...
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At first Harold Kushner could not find a publisher. Initially, the publishing establishment in New York did not think there would be a market for When Bad Things Happen to Good People. They were wrong. Since its first printing, Kushner’s book has sold over four million copies worldwide. It turns out that the problem...
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Everyone wants to be happy. How to be happy – well, that can become a divisive topic. The happiest moments of my life have come from romantic dates with my fiancée, vacations with my family, hard-won games of ultimate Frisbee, and times of leisurely immersion in a book. Or, I think of special celebrations...
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“But that which God foreknows, it needs must be, So says the best opinion of the clerks. Witness some cleric perfect for his works, That in the schools there’s a great altercation In this regard, and much high disputation… Whether the fact of God’s great foreknowing Makes it right needful that I do a...
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Courage and cruelty, honor and horror, miraculous escapes and damning coincidences are the stuff of film and novel, but also — at singular moments of history, for some few people — the stuff of life. In the wild days of World War II, a mild-mannered young German pastor, a theologian of some note and...
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For too long, people have interpreted Jesus’ teachings of peacemaking practices as Platonic ideals, high and beautiful, but not practical in real life. But when Jesus taught the leaders in Jerusalem that they needed to practice peacemaking or the temple would be destroyed, he was talking realistically about a real threat and about the...
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