“To preach the Word of God well, one must already have cultivated, at a minimum, three sensibilities: the sensibility of the close reading of texts, the sensibility of composed communication, and the sensibility of the significant. Without these, a person simply cannot preach, any more than he could if his larynx were removed or he… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
“In ancient Israel, a true prophet could have nothing in common with such televisable commodities. Instead of being defined in terms of political sensitivity or entertainment value, the vocational worth of a prophet twenty-six hundred years ago stood directly in proportion to his or her detachment from politics, obtuseness to what was popular, and separation… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“The god that was trimmed, accommodated, and retooled in order to be deemed respectable by the ‘modern mind’ was increasingly uninteresting, because unnecessary.” Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (New York: Basic, 2009), 95.
July 8, 2011
“The Christian apologist should realize, therefore, that the starting point of his religion must begin by presupposing the self-attesting God of the Scriptures. The traditional method of apologetics fails to accept this point. According to the traditional apologist, reason must be the starting point of apologetics because reason must judge, examine, and interpret all things… [Read more…]
July 8, 2011
“One cannot defend the biblical message of Christianity unless one has that content firmly intact: the what (content) precedes the that (defense). Both hermeneutics and theology as eschatology must serve as the prolegomena to Christian apologetics. In this context, apologetics ‘seeks to defend the eschatological system of biblical truth against false philosophy and false science.’”… [Read more…]
July 8, 2011
“God’s redeeming work and the present proclamation of that work are inseparable; Paul’s preaching proclaims the past redeeming acts of God because they are also the present redeeming events by which man is saved. Paul’s preaching is distinctively the eschatological message to the church, a message so antithetical to the world that it is foolish… [Read more…]
February 27, 2012
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