When I first read Ken Ham’s take on the Nepal earthquake, I decided to ignore it. I thought nobody would take him serious anyway, at least not in my little, Dutch-speaking part of the world. But then some approving comments on Ham appeared on social media. That made me reconsider my initial choice. The reason is simple. […]
Tag: God
Swinburne on the Existence of God
I was in fact searching for another paper (“The Informed Universe and the Existence of God” by John Haught, actually a chapter of an edited volume), when I stumbled upon this paper (link to pdf below) by Swinburne. There’s no reference to date or place, unfortunately, but the text offers an interesting read. Although I have some […]
Ratzinger Again . . . “The Creation of the Human Being”
Originally posted on Human Action and God:
Ratzinger on the humble truth of the creation of man from dust: We are told that God formed the man of dust from the ground. There is here something at once humbling and consoling. Something humbling because we are told: You are not God, you did not make yourself, you…
“What Is Man That You Are Mindful of Him?” by Jacob Thielman
Originally posted on EerdWord:
Jacob Thielman Jacob Thielman is Internet marketing assistant at Eerdmans. * * * I want to share a book with you — a beautiful, devastating book that you might not notice otherwise: Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology, and Ethics by Hans Reinders. “Profound disability” is a term…
Science and Religion: Has the Conflict Model Won the Popularity Vote?
– Tom Uytterhoeven – This morning my wife posted a picture on my Facebook wall. It shows two Post It notes on a wall in a community center in a Belgian town. The center had organized a cultural activity for kids: they were invited to write down who their hero was. So one kid posted: […]
Keeping God real takes work – Guelph Mercury
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Keeping God real takes work Guelph Mercury Scholars like the anthropologist Pascal Boyer, author of Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origin of Religious Thought, and the psychologist Justin L. Barrett, author of Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: Interesting suggestion at the end of the article: prayer […]
Interesting quote from Wolfhart Pannenberg
The fact that the reality and revelation of God are debatable is part of the reality of the world which dogmatics has to consider as God’s world. – Systematic Theology, Volume I, p. 49 Just one of many reasons why a fundamentalist Christianity is a contradictio in terminis…
