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Andrew Selby

Gay Marriage - Continued

The last post about gay marriage generated some interest and some comments very much worth considering. I posted my response to those comments below: Alright. I found some time, so I’ll now respond to my gracious commenters – even if […]

Andrew SelbyPhilosophy

Letter to a Liberal Friend Explaining the Christian Position on Gay Marriage (as best I could)

I wrote the below to a friend of mine who identifies himself strongly as a leftists. He had originally asked me why I couldn't be sensible about gay

Andrew Selby

Aquinas on Private property

A very nice site I stumbled across is “Acton Insitute for the Study of Religious Liberty.” Therein you can find excellent articles and book review by prominent conservative Christian scholars such as Os Guiness and Herb Schlossberg. One piece of […]

Tex

Can Justice allow for substitution?

Question: In what way is substitutionary atonement and sacrifice just? Problem: Generally, when justice is demanded, it not merely that a payment be made, but that a particular person make the payment. For example, when a woman is found raped […]

TexEpistemology

The Hideous Trap of Existence

Existence is an unqualified good; it is good in and of itself. Or so goes the story and intuition of many people. After all, what is the alternative? Non-existence. And how could anyone say that not-existing is better than existing? […]

Matthew Lee AndersonHermeneutics

Book Review: Beyond the Bible

Since I’ve been away from computers this summer, I’ve spent more time reading. One of my main priorities was I. Howard Marshall’s Beyond the Bible: Moving from Scripture to Theology. Beyond the Bible is actually only 60% Marshall (three essays)–it […]

Keith E. BuhlerDevotional

silence

Whether or not being able to sit still in silence is a "spiritual discipline," I do not know. I have learned by experience, that it is probably one

Keith E. BuhlerPhilosophyEpistemology

The possibility of non-empirical ways of knowing

The contemporary scholarly climate is, I hear, one of scientism and naturalism. Thinking peoples do not currently believe that there is any way to know anything but by means of

Andrew SelbyAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Spiritual Disciplines - Part 2

My wife, Malea, is an excellent writer and thinker. She has spent much time contemplating and practicing the disciplines and here is what she thinks about them: Spiritual Disciplines: Described

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Wedding Homily

Dr. John Mark Reynolds has posted the homily from our wedding on his blog–I was planning to also make it the first post for me as well. In essence, Dr. Reynolds said for our wedding exactly what I had been […]

Andrew SelbyBibleEvangelicalismTheology and Practice

Evangelicals Desperately Need to Practice Spiritual Disciplines: an Exhortation from Romans

Last week I attended a summer class put on by a fairly typical Southern California church on spiritual disciplines. I thought it was cool that they even cared about spiritual

Matthew Lee AndersonBibleChurchTheology and PracticeBooks

Under Review: Listening to the Spirit in the Text

(Note: I'm republishing this review as I am currently in St. Louis. Normal blogging returns Sunday). On a recent foray into our library, I picked up Gordon Fee&