If you were to survey all of the titles in the “Self-Help” genre, you could probably begin to see how the world’s “wisdom” has been shared from culture to culture, language to language, epoch to epoch, and has converged into this one genre like a sticky mess of a hodgepodge.
The sun is reaching its solar maximum, people are worried about an “internet-apocalypse”, and since the pandemic we are again witnessing mass hysteria. In what, or who, do we place our trust?
It has been three years since we started the Cántaro Institute, and four years since Daniel Lobo and Julian Castaño sat with me overlooking the Costa Rican tropics and discussed the need for a reformation and renewal of the Western church and culture.
The inspired Word is the divine THESIS, the lens by which we can see the world for what it truly is, and the guiding principle by which we ought to order our lives.
There are many kinds of apologetic “methodologies”, from evidentialist to classical to presuppositional, sometimes there is even a mixed use of these methodologies. But what we want to know is, What is the “biblical” apologetic methodology?
What does the incarnation of Jesus Christ mean? What did the early church have to say about it? What were the implications of one’s view of the incarnation? Rev. Steven R. Martins explains that the very historic nature of Christianity makes it a unique, real, and living faith, over against materialist or spiritual heresies.
What is epiphany? The word “epiphany” can be defined as a “manifestation of God”, as what we see in the advent passage of Matthew 2:1-12, when the Christ was manifested to the magi. Rev. Steven R. Martins explains the biblical meaning of “epiphany” and what Christ’s revealed identity means for us.
We’ve read his gospel account, but who was he? Who was Matthew, one of the twelve chosen by Jesus?
Speaking on Luke 9:28-43, Steven R. Martins challenges us to not settle for less when it concerns our knowledge of God. Peter thought he knew Jesus well enough, until he committed a fatal error at the Mount of Transfiguration.
Theotivity: Theology + Creativity recently interviewed Institute founder Steven R. Martins on their podcast. Listen to their conversation on a distinctly Christian view of philosophy and apologetics.