Posted in A Common Word, Antithesis, Apologetics, Christology, Cornelius Van Til, Cross and Crescent, Doctrine of God, Epistemology, Ethics, Ex Pacto, Geerhardus Vos, Herman Bavinck, John Calvin, John Frame, Love, Metaethics, Miroslav Volf, Pilgrim Praxis, Research Papers, Richard Gaffin, Synthesis, Systematic Theology, tagged Christianity, Reformed, religion, covenant, Islam, trinity on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Abstract
My papers evaluate Dr. Miroslav Volf’s publications and lectures related to A Common Word. In the epistemology paper I examine Volf’s arguments for a shared monotheism between Christianity and Islam, asking, “By what norm can one determine whether Muslims believe in the same monotheistic God as Christians?” In the ethics paper I explore Volf’s love [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Doctrine of God, Ethics, Historical Theology, Pilgrim Praxis, Prolegomena, Research Papers, Semper Reformanda, Systematic Theology, tagged aesthetics, Christianity, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, religion on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summary
Through colorful biographical sketches of six “fools” from Christianity’s history, Pelikan presents a poignant exhortation: unless one’s head, hands, and heart being “foolishly” committed to Jesus Christ at every point, then one’s pursuit of dogmatics, ethics, and aesthetics become idolatrous journeys into insanity.
Review/Reflection
My response to Pelikan’s book is part review and part autobiographical reflection:
On Mastering [...]
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Saudi Arabia’s former Minister of Information, Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani, gives his perspective on 9/11 (it has been unfairly pinned on “Islam”) and Christianity (its scriptures are corrupt, and Islam calls Christians back to true monotheism).
On Al-Yamani’s former argument, American Christians may need to at least be willing to listen patiently. With his latter arguments Al-Yamani [...]
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In this fifth and final post on a Christian response to Geert Wilder’s Fitna film (see parts 1, 2, 3, and 4), I argue that the most basic starting point in our response is to ask ourselves the underlying theological question: Do I treat Muslims like images of God?
Cutting Through the Political Noise
Due to the [...]
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As the world is busy inquiring about violence surrounding Islam’s Crescent, James Carroll turns attention to the dark side of the Roman Catholic Cross. The movie is based on Carroll’s controversial book, Constantine’s Sword, which accuses the Roman Church of propagating antisemitism. Is Carroll’s movie, then, a “Catholic Fitna“?
Carroll’s Summary of the Film
Constantine’s Sword is [...]
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Posted in Audio, Ecclesiology, Ethics, Love, New Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Romans, Romans 12, Sacra Scriptura, Sermon, tagged Christian life, Christianity, religion on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summary: I presented this sermon to my preaching lab 3 class this afternoon. My assigned topic is “brotherly love,” and the text I chose is Romans 12:10.
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As a student who is very much still learning how to preach, I’d love your feedback. If you listen, I’d like to know:
What do [...]
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Posted in A Common Word, Cross and Crescent, Ethics, Evangelism, Pilgrim Praxis, tagged Christianity, Fitna, Islam, Islamophobia, religion on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
So far my attempt to think through a faith Christian response to Fitna has (1) introduced Geert Wilder’s film, (2) surveyed its political repercussions, and (3) examined how the Christian world is officially responding to Fitna. In the final two parts I will (4) fill out the Protestant picture by exploring the laity’s response and [...]
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As the world awakens to the growing Muslim population one of the new questions facing Christians is whether all Muslims are alike. While we Christians are no strangers to wide streams of diversity within our own religion, strangely we have had a hard time of allowing the possibility of diversity within Islam. Perhaps we should [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Metaethics, New Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Prolegomena, Research Papers, Richard Hays, Sacra Scriptura, tagged Reformed on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Overview
My senior seminar class is reading through Richard Hays’ ethical masterpiece, The Moral Vision of the New Testament. This profound book has prompted deep reflection upon the proper use of Scripture in Christian ethics, and Hays’ work has provided an opportunity for us students to evaluate our Reformed (i.e. Vantillian/Framian/Prattian) metaethic with a metaethic outside [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Eschatology, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Pilgrim Praxis, Richard Gaffin, Sola Ecclesia, Soteriology, Worship, tagged Sabbath on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In a world full of hurt we need to be reminded often of our hope. Such is the purpose of the weekly Sabbath rest lived by God’s people. Professor Gaffin explains:
We obscure the meaning of the Lord’s Day if we detach it from the other six days of the week. The weekly cycle—which structures human [...]
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