Early Christian Writings: The Didache–Circa Late First Century AD (Chapters 1-4)
For the next few posts, I am going to share a more “reader-friendly” version of The Didache. It is one of the earliest Christian writings after the ...
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The Writings of the Early Church: The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (Part 3: Chapters 11-12)
To read chapters 1-5, click here. To read chapters 6-10, click here. Chapter 11: These Things are Worthy to be Known and Believed Just so you know, I’m not spea...
The Writings of the Early Church: The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (Part 2: Chapters 6-10)
For Part 1, check here. Chapter 6: The Revelation of Christians to the World If I were to sum up all this in one word, I’d say that the Christians are to the wo...
The Writings of the Early Church: The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (130 AD) (Part 1: Chapters 1-5)
***Chances are, if you ever have tried to read the writings of the early Church Fathers, you have found them to be quite difficult to understand. Even the Engli...
The Problems with the Doctrine of Original Sin (Part 3)
Although the particulars of the doctrine of original sin have varied throughout the centuries, the core of this doctrine has stayed intact: The sin of the first...
Augustine and the Doctrine of Original Sin (Part 2): Background About the Ultimate STD
As you might have noticed in the previous post, when it comes to the doctrine of original sin, YECist groups like Answers in Genesis tie it directly in with the...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 64): 20th Century Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (You’re going to learn a few things you didn’t know)
In the past few Worldview posts, we have taken a look at some of the most influential people and events in the first part of the 20th century: Vladimir Lenin, M...
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The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 57): Draper and White’s False Narrative of the Conflict Between Science and Faith
As one should be able to see from the last number of posts, the 19th century was a pivotal century. There was the struggle for the soul of European Christianity...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 55): Soren Kierkegaard–Getting Naked and Self-Conscious, and the Meaning of Faith
There is one more 19th century philosopher I want to draw our attention to: the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). When Kierkegaard died in 1855...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 46): Enlightenment Odds ‘n Ends–Revolution, Columbus, and the Slave Trade
The last few Ways of the Worldviews posts have been quite heavy in the philosophy department. And it’s true, the philosophers of the Enlightenment have had a tr...