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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
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A cultural Christian is someone who wants the cultural and moral inheritance of Christianity without its metaphysical claims, but can that inheritance survive once the claims are abandoned?
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Truth as an Absolute
- Read Time: 10 mins
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A critique of Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols: How to Philosophize with a Hammer.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
- Read Time: 24 mins
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Why the Kingdom of God was never really fighting human empires.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 24 mins
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Why personal knowledge is beyond third-person control.
Read more: Relational Address Realism : Persons as Phenomena
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Complexity Theory - Entropy and Chaos
- Read Time: 29 mins
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A Theodicy of Tested Power. We can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, but God, it turns out, can undo the breaking and still serve the omelet.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 19 mins
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How Scripture targets and eradicates every rival god—and where the story ends.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 16 mins
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The reason why a good Creator allows suffering has been answered... thousands of years before Christ.
Read more: The Third Person Rebuke
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 32 mins
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A critique of NT Wright’s creatio ex vetere.
Read more: Fairness is Blind, Justice is Not
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- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 16 mins
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The Enlightenment, Don Quixote, and John Locke’s Cartesian dream
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 24 mins
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Post-Enlightenment Reformed theology embraced a gospel with much of the spiritual components quietly removed.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Truth as an Absolute
- Read Time: 9 mins
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Banning offense doesn't protect us—it imprisons us, here's the three-headed beast responsible.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 12 mins
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How to Read the Bible's Most Misunderstood Book.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 11 mins
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“Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles… He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”
— Miss Hardcastle, in C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
Read more: The Sacrifice of Common Sense on the Altar of Idealism
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- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 30 mins
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The Counter Strain of Utopian and Dystopian Theology
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 19 mins
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Evil has never needed good men to do nothing.
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- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
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Proposing a Formal Discipline—the Relationological as Distinct from the Ontological
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
- Read Time: 33 mins
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This article introduces Deipsism (from Latin, Dei- “God” + ipse- “self”) as the rational conclusion of solipsism. Deipsism argues that the certainty of the self (Cogito ergo sum) logically and empirically implies the existence of a "Thou" (Cogito ergo Tu es).
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
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God named the forbidden tree before anyone ate from it. And there was knowledge in the name.
It’s not for me, He is the primary beneficiary of His mercy. For freedom Christ has set us free… so that we can choose to witness for His goodness.