An Islamic Pascal’s Wager

For some reason I was thinking about Pascal’s Wager today.  I have never been a huge fan or it, or any other attempt to make faith more an act of man’s reason than God’s grace.  (Not that I think faith is unreasonable.)  It occured to me that perhaps the biggest flaw with Pascal’s Wager is [...]

The Unchanging God Moved By Love

A discussion I first saw at Ancient Hebrew Poetry and then followed over to MetaCatholic on theopaschitism and the impassibility of God reminded me of something that I “grasped” in a meditation on the death of Christ a few Easter’s back but never developed and promptly forgot about. Doug at MetaCatholic writes: The mystery of [...]

Which Theologian Are You

You scored as a Anselm.  Anselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period. He sees man’s primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read ‘Cur Deus Homo?‘ Anselm 100% Martin Luther 87% Augustine [...]

Mapping God

If you’ve been paying attention you can’t help but notice that there is currently a huge press by fundamentalist atheist to discredit the orthodox Christian view of God. I think one of the reasons that Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens (and others) are so successful lately is partly a reaction against President Bush. The writers [...]

Late Night Thoughts on Limited Atonement

In the quite of night- a time I dread- remembering times gone and loved ones dead. The grief so strong, like a hammer’s blow. I gasp out loud, the tears flow. How I loved them! Did You love them too? Will I see them again? I wish I knew. If alone You choose, why limit [...]

Providence, Sin and Prayer

John Piper, a preacher and writer whom I deeply admire, recently wrote an article about the bridge that collapsed which prompted his ministry to ask its readers “Does God Cause Sin or Just Allow It? “If God is sovereign over evil,” the question asks, “can it be said that he causes it? Or does he [...]