Sublime

while there are many strong arguments that can be made for the truth of Christianity, there is no argument that will fully persuade everyone or absolutely prove Christianity.

am heartened when Pavel Florensky calls theology “an empirical science.”

It is this voice and this truth that is the way that challenges ‘the present age’, Kierkegaard’s and our own – where being a Christian has at times come to mean little more than the common human (‘a good person’) – where Christianity is one of many ‘equally valid’ ways, universal common human values mixed with, at best, colourful and, at worst, vio

How might a Christian respond to Wielenberg? We can start by arguing that it is more plausible to think values and duties attach to persons rather than things, and in this, theism is rationally preferable to Platonic atheism. As I type I’m sitting on a chair. I don’t have any obligations to the chair. I don’t owe it to the chair to weigh less than

N. T. Wright declares, “For Paul, pistis is the personal allegiance to the God who was now to be known as ‘the God who raised Jesus from the dead’; personal confession that ‘Jesus is Lord.’”13

Not all theories of truth are created equal. While there are several theories of truth that present themselves in our day, only the correspondence theory of truth is the way truth really is. This theory says that truth is correspondence to reality, which is to say, a statement is true inasmuch as it aligns with or is in accord with what is actually

Rushworth Kidder, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics and author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices,