Sublime

“I think a man is his own God and can decide for himself what’s right and wrong,” Ross said. “As a man, I decide for myself.”

Jesus is obedient because God’s being is found in God’s act and this God of Israel is a minister (the being of God is revealed as minister, as one who reaches out to embrace and be with humanity—“ministry” and “minister” throughout the rest of this project will mean this act of sharing in the life of another for the sake of love and communion). Jes

Should we switch things up? Try another tack? Measurable nonresults is one of the reasons so many churches tuck the gospel behind fog and lasers or adjust their teaching to the “7 Steps” busywork of moralistic therapeutic deism.

I see Kierkegaard as offering us a middle way of sorts.

If that is the case, there is no such thing as neutral academics—a view he shares with Kuyper and Van Til.

So while a pastor need not be a scholar, he ought to be a man of doctrine.

Foundationalism is the idea that we, scientists with nature or readers with texts, can find some place that will provide a dependable “basis” of firm, secure, incontrovertible “knowledge” on which we can then build systems of secondary values, beliefs, systems of thought or belief. Nonfoundationalists argue that no such place exists in the universe