If you follow my blog regularly, you probably will have noticed that I haven’t been writing as many posts on Answers in Genesis and young earth creationism as I did last fall. The reason for that is because last fall my big “project” was writing my book, The Heresy of Ham. I’ve been able to…
In my reading and research of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis, I’ve come across quite a lot of material, so much so that I simply will not be able to include it all in the book I’m writing. Be that as it may, that doesn’t mean the material that doesn’t make the book can be…
We now come to the conclusion of my book analysis of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation. Let me say up front that I do not think Gregory was attempting to pin every ill in modern society back on the Reformation. Obviously, quite a lot of good things came out of the Reformation. And for that…
Brad Gregory’s sixth chapter in The Unintended Reformation is entitled, “Secularizing Knowledge.” In it, he looks at the modern American education system, particularly universities. To the point, the problem as Gregory sees it is that it has come to be assumed that since “religious truth claims are based on faith…they are a matter of subjective…
In the last two chapters in The Unintended Reformation, Brad Gregory looks at two aspects of modern life in America today: the consumeristic culture and the higher education system. Basically, if you’ve ever found yourself coveting that latest iphone, car, or whatever because you’ve seen an advertisement for it, or if you’ve ever gone to…
We now continue with our walk through of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory. In this post, I’m going to take a look at chapter 4, “Subjectivizing Morality.” If chapter 2 was about truth claims, and chapter 3 was about political control, chapter 4 is now about morality itself. The first thing to realize is…
Today I’m taking a break from my summary/analysis of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory, in order to share the movie review of “God’s Not Dead 2” by the folks at Answers in Genesis. To get straight to the point, the 4,300 word review, written by Roger Patterson, struck me as quite bizarre. Now, as…
In my last post, I commented on chapter three of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory, in which he traced the historical development of Church/State relations. I left off with the Founding Fathers and the first amendment. That is where I will pick things up… So, the Founding Fathers stated in the first amendment to…
In my last post, I covered chapter 2 of Brad Gregory’s book, The Unintended Reformation, in which he traced a historical line from the Reformation to the 19th century that showed how the Reformer’s rejection of the entirety of Church Tradition, and their adherence to “Sola Scriptura,” actually had the unintended consequence of leading to…
In this post I am going to crystalize Brad Gregory’s historical overview from the time of the Reformation to today in seven simple steps. For this is what he does in “Relativizing Doctrines,” in chapter 2 of his book The Unintended Reformation. So hang on tight…there’s a lot of ground to cover, and we’re going to…