In rather surprising fashion, much of my reading of late has returned repeatedly to the importance of God's transcendence for every area of human life and thought. William Placher, in his marvelous book The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modern Thinking About God Went Wrong, argues that
04.5.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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(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 reliabl
10.22.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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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
10.1.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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Hello people! Having meandered around the top bit of the Midwest, I made it to Chicago, Windy City (for its politics, not its wind, though there is literal wind here too) and a little bit of Indiana that is just outside of Chicago. But enough about me: Irreligious - Epistemology and god: Rationa
07.11.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire...Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices
07.2.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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When I was about fifteen, I wrote an essay entitled “The gods are unjust” about Oedipus Rex, the ancient play by Sophocles – it is one of the great Greek Tragedies, replete with chorus and tragic hero. It was my first tragedy. Oedipus was condemned by Apollo’s prophecy, related by an oracle,
06.28.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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The Dartmouth Apologia - Christianity and the Modern World - Peter Blair very reasonably explains how current atheists in the public sphere owe Christianity their basic assumptions about morality but refuse to admit it. Slate's Since you Asked - My advice to you is... just wait - Cary Tennis, adv
06.6.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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