Evan Almighty: A Biblical Recontextualization

In a comical and Bible-pun-filled film, Steve Carell and his bewildered family participate in a Hollywood retelling of the Genesis flood account. I was quite surprised to see Carell in this family-friendly film that is definitely safe for the less-than-40-year-old-virgin-eyes. The movie was entertaining and full of clever biblical allusions and other witty features [...]

Techno-Subjectivity: ‘Facing’ Inauthentic Alterity

Before I begin my little diatribe against particular communicatory devices, I would just like to say that they are very annoying. Whether I’m walking in a store or standing in line at a coffee shop someone with a bluetooth phone in their ear starts talking away, and I wonder if they are talking to [...]

Biblical Inerrancy? Karl Barth’s Ontology of Scripture

Is the Bible inerrant? Several evangelicals assert that one must hold to biblical inerrancy/infallibility in order for the Bible to be authoritative. This postion, however, seems to be much closer to Modernism and Cartesian epistemology than to what the biblical text says itself. Inerrancy is a modern agenda that much be forced onto the [...]