It is fashionable among academicians to hide behind dead men. In order to strengthen one’s position, one need only evoke the name of some bygone philosopher or theologian. “Oh, my poisition is Aristotilian” one will say in one breath, but in the next “Well, it’s not that Aristotelian.” If one really wanted to perpetuate Aristotle’s

          “Postmodernism is an incredulity towards metanarratives.” So goes the mantra of postmodernism as defined by Jean-Francois Lyotard. While I’ve never met anyone who describes themselves as a “postmodernist,” almost every student I meet today is heavily influenced by it.  Today’s post is to introduce the reader to postmodern philosophy and

“Ignorance is the first penalty of pride.” So wrote H.G. Wells in his 1920 work The Outline of Human History, in which he argued that Christianity had collapsed “like a house of cards” in light of evolutionary theory.  “The whole moral edifice,” Wells said referring to Christianity “was built upon false history.” If ignorance is

Blog Book: A Christian Theory of Everything Excerpt: “I offer this series in no way as a substitute for the physicist’s hard work in understanding the universe. Like faithful Christians throughout the centuries, I see belief not as a substitute for science, but instead, as the basis for it.&#

  “In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” God commanded light to shine out of darkness at two times in the biblical narrative: Creation and the Incarnation. The Apostle John connects these two themes as well in