Category Archives: Reviews

Faith and doubt

Posted on January 25, 2008 by me

Faith is very often understood by people as a defeat of intelligence. In other words, faith begins when I can no longer think creatively, when I let go o any attempt at rational understanding, and when I say ‘I believe’ … Continue reading →

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The Divine Embrace 2: heresy vs. spirituality

Posted on January 20, 2008 by me

Webber, as I mentioned in part 1 of this series, defines spirituality as “a lived theology.” That is, Biblical spirituality is based on the core teachings of the Church, as expressed in the earliest creeds. The early heresies, such as … Continue reading →

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Webber: The Divine Embrace 1

Posted on January 13, 2008 by me

The other evening I sat down to finish The Bourne Legacy (which I’ll be blogging on soon), but first started to page through the books I had just received from Amazon. I turned to Chapter 2 of Robert Webber’s The … Continue reading →

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More on Flew, and even more philosophy

Posted on January 7, 2008 by me

Since the attempts to give Anthony Flew the brush-off will continue for a while, I thought passing along a link to his interview with Dr. Benjamin Wiker was appropriate. He certainly doesn’t seem senile in this interview. In response to … Continue reading →

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