There’s Humor in Theology 16

We often hear people say that Martin Luther’s death bed words were, “We are beggars; that is true.” Indeed, Luther said this on his death bed. But shortly before uttering these words he said to his wife, Katie:

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Presuppositional Apologetics and Other Religions

It should be no secret to those who have read this blog for a while that John and I favor apologetics of the presuppositional Van Til tradition. I’m not interested in trying to prove presuppositional apologetics to its opponents here on the blog. There are plenty of resources that have endeavored to do so, and [...]

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More Strange Google Searches that Lead to Chaos

People with Caner
I’m pretty sure this person was searching for people with cancer, not people with Ergun Caner. Although, Caner can certainly be hazardous to your theological health.
the drunken peasant martin luther
This is a bizarre reason for infamy: being famous for being drunk. I’m sure there were lots of drunken peasants in Germany, so there [...]

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Were the Psalms Purposefully Ordered?

Scholars have debated whether there was in fact a purposeful ordering of the Psalter. Using Psalms 1-2 as an example, I want to argue that a close reading of the Psalter will demonstrate that it was purposefully ordered by redactors. If the Psalter is the result of early purposeful editorial activity (probably sometime during the [...]

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Luther and the Postmodern Turn

Whether Martin Luther was a pre-modern thinker, the first modern thinker or to what degree he was some of both is a perennial debate among historians. How one comes down on this question has as much to do with how one defines “modern” as it does with how one understands Luther’s thought. My own (mostly [...]

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Strange Google Searches that Lead to Chaos

One of the little voyeuristic pleasures of blogging is that blog-owners can track how readers arrive at their blog. Sometimes they come by way of a link and sometimes by way of a search engine. I have for sometime now found the phrases that people searched for strange and amusing, but its even more amusing [...]

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