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Martin Luther Reading Group in Louisville, KY

Posted in A Few of My Favorite Things, Church History, Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Theology on August 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »

For those of you who live in the Louisville, KY area, I will be co-leading a Martin Luther reading group hosted by Concordia Lutheran Church. Anyone is invited to attend: Lutheran, non-Lutheran, believer, unbeliever. We will be reading selected portions from Timothy F. Lull’s Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings. The group will meet every other week [...]

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The Ethics of Old Testament Genocide and Radical Islamic Jihad

Posted in Apologetics, Old Testament Exegesis, Theology, World Religions on August 20, 2007 | 13 Comments »

The Old Testament stories, if presented accurately in their fullness, would not make very good Family Focus Films. These stories contain incidents of rape, brutal murder, cannibalism, and the slaughter of women and infants, to name a few. We tend to gloss over these stories usually because they don’t seem very spiritually uplifting or spiritually relevant. (Or perhaps [...]

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The Noetic Effects of Salvation in Presuppositional Apologetics

Posted in Apologetics, Epistemology, Systematic Theology, Theology on August 8, 2007 | 12 Comments »

It has become standard fare in any method of Christian apologetics to give a place to what theologians call the noetic effects of sin. How does sin affect our minds? In what way is one’s ability to reason corrupted by the fall and by the ongoing sin of the individual? No twentieth-century Christian philosopher seems [...]

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