My buddy Cody saw my list of Movies to Watch During Quarantine and noticed some gaps in my viewing, mostly older movies. Here are his suggestions. Dramas The Third Man Casablanca The Searchers Sullivan’s Travels The Bridge on the River Kwai The Treasure of the...
The Importance of this Question Jesus of Nazareth is reported to have done many miracles in the bible, including casting out demons, healing the sick, raising a man from the dead, stilling a storm with a word, and of course, raising himself from the dead...
In an online forum, someone recently asked the question “how can you be sure you are saved?” This is actually a good question. Here’s some answers. You know you’ve been changed, regenerated, brought into the family of God because you now have 1. A Desire...
Last Update: 12.9.2021 Changes: Added Grenz As a Master’s student in theology, I have had to take a class in Systematic Theology. I wanted to find a nice overview of the landscape of ST, but found only bits and pieces. Here’s my more comprehensive overview for...
1.0 Introduction Biblical Theology (BT) is a relatively recent approach to hermeneutics, emerging from Exegetical Theology (ET) and Systematic Theology (ST) as a distinct discipline, largely in response to post-Reformation scholasticism which birthed the “higher criticism” of the scriptures in the 17th and 18th centuries...
Introduction In Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, authors Richards and O’Brien offer many reasons why Western Christians may be misunderstanding scripture because they are imposing their own context and assumptions on it rather than viewing it from the original writers’ and recipients’ frame of reference...
While so-called Democratic Socialism (DS) is popular among progressives in government and the media, there is a bit of confusion over what it means, and many who support it also seem to support traditional socialism (TS), neglecting its despotic history.
As a political conservative, I am tired both of suffering the indefensible in Donald Trump’s tweets and sound blurbs, as well as suffering the misunderstandings, over-reactions, and insults of the left when we don’t hear the same intent and meaning in what Trump often in-eloquently...
