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?
The responsibility of the Christian intellectual is to integrate faith and knowledge. The data, insights, facts and discoveries must not be dealt with as though they belonged to a world other than that in which faith exists.
We cannot make sense of suffering, or know how to resolve suffering, outside of the Judeao-Christian worldview.
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.
Too many Christians were satisfied with the form of faith without its substance. The situation has not changed over the centuries.
With the exception of the first introductory essay on polarization, the essays in this volume were presented at a conference on “Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis,” held at Redeemer College, Hamilton, Ontario on May 30-June 1, 1985.
This is the third part of a series on the global deluge of Noah’s day. Thus far, we have seen the importance of teaching about the deluge, and that it’s more than just a Sunday school class for children.
The centuries preceding the French Revolution (1789) are in many ways different from the epoch that followed. The radical change of direction introduced into the life and thought of the nations by this tremendous event shattered the continuity of history and impacted the matter of our faith.
When a person looks at the world round about him for the first time, a multitude of questions throng in upon him from all sides. For the questions that we are concerned with in our lives are innumerable and most of them are so insoluble that, after once having come to grips with them, we seem to feel unable to withdraw from the contest.