The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology

…Is a book I would really like to buy. Yet it’s very expen­sive, why? Oh well! I’ll either wait for some­one to send me a copy, or there’s always Christmas.  Read More

The Bible, Propaganda?

Speak­ing of The New Chris­tians, Tony Jones said some­thing else that caught my attention: “The Bible is pro­pa­ganda.… Pro­pa­ganda has a point and a pur­pose.… It doesn’t claim to be objec­tive. It’s try­ing to con­vince some­one of some­thing. It’s try­ing to get peo­ple to join a cause, to join a move­ment. Isn’t that exactly what the Bible is?.… It is a liv­ing, breath­ing doc­u­ment that makes a claim on... Read More

Truth as a symptom

“The pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with ‘truth’ among emer­gents has often been pushed on them by their con­ser­v­a­tive crit­ics, pri­mar­ily because truth is a cen­tral con­cern of theirs. And their pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with truth is a symp­tom of their mod­ernism. They want the Bible to be unswerv­ingly fac­tual (here, truth equals fact), for if it is, then its claims about eter­nal sal­va­tion can­not be ignored. So they pub­lish... Read More