Jonathan Rowe: “Did the Ancient Jews in fact have a Republic?”
Did the Ancient Jews have a “republic”? I don’t think they did. But what about contemporary leading theologians?
Did the Ancient Jews have a “republic”? I don’t think they did. But what about contemporary leading theologians?
A brief gloss of the complex intellectual and spiritual harmony between the Founders and the Quakers.
Instead of calling just war theory a fraud, as Damon Linker does, I would call it a failure.
Does it matter if Richard Dawkins is ignorant of theology? If he’s going to write about it, then yes.
Kyle Cupp and Tod Kelly discuss Kyle’s new book. Along the way, Kyle waxes on his approach to faith and doubt, along with his daughter, the Pope, abortion, Paul Ricoeur, Job, and Firefly.
If God cannot prove His omnipotence (or infinity) to human beings because they are neither omnipotent or omniscient or infinite, couldn’t God simply make all human beings into omniscient, omnipotent, and infinite beings? If He is all those things, then He could easily grant those things to all of us if He wanted to prove…
[updated] It is perhaps a little ironic that Beck is invoking theology so often and especially in order to demonize Obama further. Ironic because conservative and evangelical Christians probably have more in common theologically with Barack Obama than with Glenn Beck. Mainline Protestantism is still a lot more similar to evangelical Christianity than Mormonism –…
On the flight over to Calgary (for Br. Scott’s nuptials) I read Bob Wright’s new book The Evolution of God. I’m wanting to do a post or two on that book, but I was having a hard time getting it together. Yesterday I was watching this Bloggingheads diavlog between Bob and a man named Karl…