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The Sound of Silence
mary-martha-jesus.jpg Pilgrimage and Practice Spiritual disciplines such as scripture reading and prayer are familiar to most Christians. However, but the disciplines of silence and solitude are not....
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Descartes for Adventists
Screen shot 2010-06-16 at 10.36.52 PM.pngDescartes’ thought is often taken to be the starting point of modern philosophy. In this post, we’ll revisit some of the themes of his ideas. I’ll suggest that...
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Locke for Adventists
locke.gifNeedless to say, John Locke’s political philosophy has been tremendously influential, especially in the United States. In this post, however, I want to focus on Locke’s epistemological views,...
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This is the fifth post in a nine-part series for the Spectrum/re-church Summer Reading Group. The nine posts will be drawn from chapters of Deep Church, by Jim Belcher. You can find the reading...
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Hume for Adventists
David Hume.jpgHume closes his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by laying out the implications of his views:When we run over libraries, persuaded by these principles, what havoc must we make?...
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Kant for Adventists
immanuel-kant.jpgI had to deny knowledge to make room for faith (1). Many take Kant’s ideas to be a turning point in modern philosophy, marking the beginnings of “post-modernism”; his writings have...
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Hobbes for Adventists
hobbes-che.jpgRecently, I had my class read sections from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and was surprised by the response. Students overwhelmingly agreed with the pessimistic assessment of human nature...
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Between Jerusalem and Athens: Kierkegaard for Adventists
SKC-1.jpg“God told me to do it.” In an age of terrorism and clerical scandal, such a claim sounds especially dangerous. But does Kierkegaard end up legitimating such an explanation for actions with his...
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Nietzsche for Adventists
nietzsche.gifWith a work entitled The Anti-Christ and declarations like “God is dead” the thought of Frederich Nietzsche seems obviously inimical to Christian faith. This final post of the series (at...
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Do I Have to Believe in Evolution?: Summer Reading Group—II
believe it.jpg Part of the difficulty of proving any scientific theory is due to the inductive nature of scientific reasoning. Part of the difficulty of proving any scientific theory is due to the...
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To Change the World: Thinking Theologically about Culture
toChangeTheWorldBook.jpg This is the first post in a nine-part series for the SPECTRUM Summer Reading Group. This is the first post in a nine-part series for the SPECTRUM Summer Reading Group. The nine...
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2013 Summer Reading Group: ‘Postmodern Apologetics?’
9780823242757_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG If ‘apologetics’ stands for blind and dogmatic faith and ‘postmodern’ for the complete rejection and even suppression of faith, how could the two possibly meet? The...
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Postmodern Apologetics?—5: Marion and A God of Gift and Charity
postmodernbook.jpg Our intentions provide the horizon for our experience. But what about an experience of the divine? This is the fifth post of a twelve-part series for Spectrum’s 2013 Summer Reading...
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Summer Reading Group: The Cost of Discipleship
bonhoeffer3.jpg The summer is well underway and once again we’re planning to blog through a book together. This time around we’ve selected a modern classic, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of...
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The Cost of Discipleship – 1: Grace
bonhoeffer3.jpg We love Jesus because he gets us something else — health, wealth, and victory over our enemies, or more “spiritually” put, fulfillment, forgiveness, “salvation,” heaven, etc. Jesus...
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Spectrum Summer Reading Group Gets Unclean
Unclean.png Richard Beck asks us to imagine spitting into a Dixie cup…and then drinking its contents. Disgusting, right? Although this seems like the natural reaction to have, it’s actually rather odd,...
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Summer Reading Group: Flourishing
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg This year’s Spectrum Summer Reading Group will focus on the nature of human flourishing. What does this look like? Is it possible? Can it be measured? Is there some...
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Summer Reading Group: “Religious Exclusivism and Political Pluralism”
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg Are all voices being respected and given a seat at the table of ecclesial life and discussion? The perception by many is that we could be doing much better. This is the...
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Summer Reading Group: Humanism and the Death of God
2017-08-12 Summer Reading Group.png We are excited that this year’s Spectrum Summer Reading Group will focus on a work written by someone familiar to many readers of this website. We are excited that...
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Christ and the Conflict of Interpretations: Hermeneutics Transfigured
bible-aaron-burden-181246.jpg The time has come to rediscover Jesus as a teacher of Scripture and to restore His teaching authority in the church that bears His name. Like most Christians, Adventists...
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