Thoughts on Molinist Soteriology

Molinism is a type of philosophical theology.  It is a structure that wraps itself around Scripture in an attempt to make sense of the content.  That is not a bad thing in and of itself.  We employ our methods of reason for interpreting the world around us and the...

On Model Falsification

The empirical movement of modern science in the 19th and 20th centuries raised questions about knowledge.  Hume, Kant, and others asked how we can know and how we might verify that what we know is true?  Hume began with empiricism but had an issue with the reliability...

The Christian Mind in a Contrary Culture

Some History of the Ideas That Affect Our View of the World and of God’s Workings Introduction This is my perspective regarding the place and implementation of clarified discernment in my own Christian life and in my field of ministry.  It encompasses my motivations...

Framing Darwin in History

The suggestion has been made that nobody thinks original thoughts.  Feyerabend identified the whole of history and culture in which one lives as the source for thought.  At the same time VanTil was pursuing the idea that our fallen nature prohibited us from having a...