On Being a Christian Philosopher

Throughout the past weeks I have had a certain theme (or perhaps question) on my mind: the relationship between Christian faith and philosophy. This question has roots in an ever broader (perennial) question, which concerns the relationship between reason and revelation (or as Tertullian put it: “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?”). As many [...]

Thank You John Milbank (Or, Why I Am Returning to Augustine)

While working through John Milbank’s essay “Augustine and the Indo-European Soul,” I came across a paragraph that “confirmed” for me the proper relationship between philosophy and theology, and also the proper relationship between myself and St. Augustine. Milbank writes:
For Augustine, the objectifying gaze of philosophy without love produces no truth, but merely satisfies a perverse [...]

Transubstantiation and Language

Recently I have been picking up more literature from my favorite theological movement – Radical Orthodoxy. Catherine Pickstock, an RO theologian who will never cease to impress me with her rich prose and audacious claims, once again challenged me at the core of my Christian faith. While reading her essay, “Necrophilia: The Middle of Modernity, [...]

More Good Resources on Biblical Authority

Although I have already blogged about biblical authority and inerrancy, I came across this article which I think fits as a nice follow-up resource that helps round out some of my thoughts on the matter. In summary, the author explains how modern evangelicals embrace an inerrant Bible out of a reaction to the Enlightenment skepticism [...]

Why I’m Not A Calvinist

Though once a vehicle of personal theological certainty, Reformed theology no longer presents any appeal to my interest, for I find it no longer suited to address the problems and questions of faith today. Perhaps I feel that Reformed theology is not reformed enough, in that it has abandoned its own axiom of semper [...]

Is the Bible Oppressive?

I was reading Sandra M. Schneiders today whose work was in a short book called Postmodern Theology: Christian Faith in a Pluralist World. She raised the issue of liberation theology, and in particular the contemporary issues in feminist critique. At the core of this text is a concern for the survival of the Bible [...]

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 [...]