Theology

THE GIANTS ARE GONE. CHRIST REIGNS. For more than a century, the ideas of Freud, Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche have reshaped the modern world.Their philosophies challenged faith, redefined truth, and influenced generations of students, leaders, and institutions. Freud called religion an illusion...

Bloomsbury presents Disparities by Slavoj Žižek, read by Joe Jameson. The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Žižek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has...

Evangelical Protestants enthusiastically affirm the “sufficiency of Scripture” for the Christian faith. But how does this doctrine square with the church’s long tradition of “natural theology” which teaches that a surprising amount can be known about God from nature and reason alone?In...

The theodicy that works advertised by a people who don’t know the term? How can that be?“Why does God permit human suffering?” the Bethel speaker begins. “Well, that’s an easy one, isn’t it? It is one of the first things we learned when we got the truth.”It is? Easy? Easy?! It’s...

The question of how seriously to take literature has vexed philosophers throughout the centuries. Are the stories we write merely noble lies told to hold society together? A means of comic detachment from a tragic world? Mimicry of transcendent truths? Potent acts of self-realization? From the...