In his magisterial two volume work, The Matter with Things, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Oxford literary critic Iain McGilchrist draws on his expertise in brain science to explore the relationship between reason and emotion. These two cognitive faculties are often seen as strongly opposed to one another. McGilchrist, however, questions this.
What can we learn by comparing Greek and Hebrew?
Or should we say, Reading Paul Selectively
Hello dear readers! I hope that you still read these newsletters in any case. I was just mentioning the other day that between welcoming another baby into the world and sitting through Hebrew exams, it has been far too long since I have written anything. Behind the scenes, I migrated
A major idea from a major figure in the West.
How can the Trinity be one God?
Where did evil come from?
What is hell, and do some people stay there forever?
A meditation on the Incarnation.
Let's take a look at John Calvin's understanding of justification as imputed righteousness
A difficulty for classical apologetics
What could Christians possibly learn from postmodernism? As it turns out, some powerful biblical themes.
Should Christians care about the environment?
Why does Jesus act that way?
Have we been taking the verse "where two or three gather in my name" (Matt 18:20) out of context?
Is baptism necessary for salvation?
Some ponderings about figurative interpretations in Scripture
Let's consider further biblical evidence for praying to Jesus
Is there biblical support for praying directly to Jesus?
Is it biblical to hope for God's rescue?
In this post, I translate Genesis 2:17 from the Greek Old Testament and offer some commentary and reflections.
Does worship have to take place at a particular location?
How did the biblical prophets view Israel's exile into Babylon after the destruction of the Temple?
Was the biblical David a womanizer? What can we learn by looking at the biblical stories from the perspective of his wives?
What does comparing the laws in Deuteronomy and Exodus tell us about the Bible — and God?
David Hume famously argued that miracles were impossible — or at least unbelievable.
The philosopher Simon Blackburn objects to an ancient argument for God's existence. However, when discussing ancient arguments, context is key.
In his book What Does It All Mean?, the philosopher Thomas Nagel offers three objections against “the religious foundation for morality.”
Many thinkers, both Christian and otherwise, have argued that belief in evolution is incompatible with belief in God.
In various places across the interwebs, Sam Harris, a public intellectual and one of the leading New Atheists, has claimed that the Bible is not divinely inspired.
Every so often, you can find a philosopher claiming to refute an argument by crafting a so-called parody argument against it.
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