Agape: An Unearned Love
C.S. Lewis regarded agape love as the greatest of the four loves1. It is the kind of love Christ exemplified in his life and teaching. Author Richard L. Strauss notes that, “it is a love which keeps loving when its object is unresponsive, unkind, unlovable, or completely unworthy… it gives one hundred percent and expects nothing in return!“2 It is a seemingly impossible love, yet a reflection of God’s love for us. It is a kind of love, as Peter Kreeft notes, that “goes beyond worth, beyond justice, beyond reason“3 . In the words of C.S. Lewis, it is a gift-love from God to us:
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing — of should we say ‘seeing’? there are no tenses in God — the bussing cloud of … (Read more)
Book Review: Socrates Meets Jesus by Peter Kreeft
Pages: 182
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Year: 2002
Author: Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft has written a simple, yet critical examination of the claims of Jesus as experienced through a pagan Greek philosopher — Socrates. It is through Socrates that Kreeft cuts through a lot of the theological jargon, asking what should be the foremost and basic questions when approaching the question “Who is Jesus?”
The book is written in the same fashion as his other Socrates meets… books. Names are often satire, some times biting and always relevant. The context is always modern day (at least at the time of writing) and the issues as relevant now as they were back then. Kreeft’s use of satire does not come off as inappropriate or spiteful, but humorous (i.e., Professor Fesser, Bertha Broadmind) and light-hearted.
Kreeft’s story picks up immediately after Socrates drinks hemlock juice, dying. He finds himself thrown 2,000 years in … (Read more)
Hail Mary, Full of Grace.. Was The Lord With Thee?
Let’s get straight to the point. If the virgin birth did not happen, then, as Mark Driscoll rightly observes:
If the virgin birth of Jesus is untrue, then the story of Jesus changes greatly; we would have a sexually promiscuous young woman lying about God’s miraculous hand in the birth of her son, raising that son to declare he was God, and then joining his religion. But if Mary is nothing more than a sinful con artist then neither she nor her son Jesus should be trusted. Because both the clear teachings of Scripture about the beginning of Jesus’ earthly life and the character of his mother are at stake, we must contend for the virgin birth of Jesus Christ1.
As I said in my previous post, I’ve been hearing quite a lot of people downplay or even reject the virgin birth as a fanciful bit mythologizing 2… (Read more)
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